Duplication

Sure we have heard all kinds of confusing horror stories on content duplication. Sure you want to avoid doing it, but we have yet to see Google or other search engines actual penalize for it. What the search engines do is rank one page over another and yes sometimes if they find a duplicate they will toss it in the supplemental index. If you call that a penalty fine, but I call it Google choosing one version to rank over another. Make sure you provide them with only one to rank! Also if you write an article just make sure to publish it on your website and WAIT a couple of weeks and then syndicate it. it will give the search engines time to associate you as the Publisher along with that try to make it more enrich with meta kewwords to get search strikes.