(sigh) I hadn't built a new lens since Dec 2! I finally stop procrastinating on a music review and spent 3 or 4 hours working on this lens.......only to get it put into heads up status for duplicate content.
That is the hardest part for me with these reviews, as the company sends me info that they want in with the review.....mostly along the lines of about the author etc.
I went through the info sent to me and rearranged sentences, changed words, eliminated some words, even eliminated some whole sentences. The filter still caught it as duplicate content.
I now have gone in and only left 1 or 2 sentences (still in my changed form) from each paragraph and then linked to the biography on his official website. I do hope it's enough to get it out of heads up, but 3 days later they haven't changed it yet.
How do you handle when you are in this situation? It's frustrating for me. I am linking the lens first in this week's linky.
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Hi. That sounds so frustrating! I've never had the duplicate content thing come up, except on one lens series where I used an identical intro (by mistake...I changed one word of it and they let it through--it was that A - Z lens and I freaked out when I got the warning, because I didn't want to have to figure out how to reward a certain sentence in a different way 26 times, but I realized I had forgotten to change the topic and that was all it took).
ReplyDeleteAnyways...you didn't really say a "theme" this week, but I JUST THIS MORNING posted a post related to copyright which doesn't relate directly to this (it's about Zazzle) but seemed to kind of fit since it's in the rhelm of "duplicate content problems." So I linked that.
Marsha, are you saying the company wants you to repeat the bio they send you word for word? Because the sentence "Though he may have had a bit of a late start in his musical career, when you hear Bob Pressner's new album and see him perform, you'll know that this is only the beginning, with so much more to come!" is a direct quote from his website and should be in quotes if you use it that way. If you put it into Google it comes up with a lot of websites that say the same thing. So of course it will trip the filters.
ReplyDeleteTry re-writing it with words that mean the same, something like "Bob Pressner may be a late comer to the music scene, but I expect that when people hear his album they will only want to hear more." Or something like that.
I had one lens locked for duplicate content I immediately appealed and it was cleared a few days later. The so-called duplicate content was small quotations from songs. Particularly galling given the number of lenses with full lyrics illegally used!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with yours.
Marsha, I rarely agree to write reviews on terms of writing duplicate content. Occasionally I have run across it with a book tour and have posted the "mandatory" review content on a blog post. Then I create my lens on Squidoo with totally unique content. An example is my review of the book If I Should Die Before My Dog. I have 1 more book tour review to do and will probably not accept another, as I do not even like duplicate content on my blog posts anymore. I will add the link to my lens of the same book title to your linky here.
ReplyDeletebest way to get past duplicate content is to put it in quotes and acknowledge the source.
ReplyDeleteI've never had the duplicate content thing on Squidoo but on Hubpages I did. Most were from patterns I wrote which I neglected to deleted from the blog before posting to Hubpages.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I find all this frustrating because it is the yahoos that scrape content and steal content that are to blank for all this hypersensitivity. Original content can get tagged because someone else stole it. Ugh
I'm with Marsha, I no longer do reviews that ask me to post a common article and for companies who are doing a blog hop or other promotion it is ridiculous to ask them to write 100+ unique articles.
Take UberGeekGirl1's advice, put the content in quotes and site the source.
whoops, should say blame not "blank" {smiles}
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