Michaela - I have just been duplicating mine on AR. It is probably not the best plan but like yourself, I don't feel like rewriting it. There was a program I almost purchased that will rewrite it for you and duplicate it up to 100 times with different copy so it doesn't get tagged. It was not very expensive, maybe $150.00. I just wasn't sure how well it would work on numbers and what changes it could make that would be acceptable. The example that I viewed were all text writings.

However rewriting the text portion may be all that is needed but I wouldn't use it enough to justify it.

I've been posting the same on both.  I'd also like to know if any negatives to doing it.  I thought it would give me more exposure (hopefully positive).  I'm sure there are people who see my P2 blog and not AR and vice-versa.

I'm wondering the same thing. I duplicated one post, but that's it as I don't want to get penalized and don't want to write the same post twice. We need one of the SEO experts for this.

This is one of those questions where if you ask five SEO people the question, you get seven answers...

On the scale you all are talking about, there probably is nothing wrong with duplicating posts. The "duplicate content penalty" that is often talked about but really not well understood is generally believed to be applied to intentional, deceitful attempts to manipulate search engines -- which is obviously not what you all are trying to do.

Worst case, one of your posts gets placed in the search engines main index, teh other in the supplemental index.

Mary McKnight at RSSPieces is pretty highly regarded in the RE blogging SEO world and has this to say about "duplicate content":

http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/06/19/duplicate-content-filters-explained-why-your-personal-blog-and-activerain-blog-can-have-duplicate-content

And Gary - I wouldn't spend the money on the "rewrite" software. I've seen some that will turn a post into what reads like either a bad translation or like a 3rd grader wrote it.

If you want to see an interesting exercise on duplicate content, try Googling "duplicate content myth exploded" (without the quotes). You'll be presented with link after link of the same article on site after site. If there was an all encompassing duplicate content penalty, how could this be possible?

If you want to be completely safe, you can do this. It requires very little extra work.

Write the post on your blog. Go to AR and post something like:

I just pulled market statistics for the Timbuktoo real estate market. For all the details please visit HERE (and link "HERE" to your blog post).

This works well on AR in particular, because it pulls AR traffic to your main blog.

Here's a similar example I did right here on RELib:

http://www.reliberation.com/blogs/phoenixrealestate/archive/2007/07/08/jay-and-francy-lunch-with-a-couple-of-point2-ers.aspx

I should have added that "large scale" duplication, even in the absence of deceit, is also not a good idea. This is one reason, for example, that folks with standard issue P2 sites need to change the canned content. No one is trying to deceive the search engines, and they don't truly penalize sites that aren't changed. But they won't rank well because they have pages identical to tens of thousands of other sites...

Thanks Jay

That helps, I'll start doing that.

I would say.... Naaaah

Real estate is an auto pilot..... I am in cookie business now !

I told you I would help you but we have to do something about that shield first..... Take the "Bull By The Horns" !!!