Ileana Calotescu
From my point of view it is not!
If I could argue that in my native language, it would be easier to do. English is not my “strong point”, so I turned to Wikipedia to try to argue why an “duplicate content” is not the same as an “edited content”.
According to Wikipedia, duplicate content is a term used to describe content that appears on more than one place on net.
Why don’t I consider edited content to be duplicate?
Editing a post means, among other things, optimizing the content of this post visually.
An edited post is not a duplicate!Edited content does not appear twice at the same time on Virily. Once it is edited it replaces the previous content.
I can’t explain it any easier than that. I hope everyone understood what I wanted to say.PS: I will continue to edit the visually inappropriate posts, and I advise you to do so. This is for the benefit of Virily’s Site!
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Question of
Do you understand the difference between an edited and a duplicate post?
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Yes
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No
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2.Do you still consider edited content to be duplicate?
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Yes
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No
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Edit is my very best friend. It never part ways with me. Edit and I are one in body, mind, and soul. 😀
Editing is required when a posting is not appropriate.
Yes. Or, when after proofreading own published blog ( Virily FAQ), the author wants to make some clarifications, verifying, corrections. That’s what Edit is for which VIRILY allows.
If you simply edit existing content and not create a new copy of it and then edit the content then that is not a duplicate.
Many were upset over the edited posts. Now everything will be fine because there is no editing option.
That is right! But there are some who consider an edited post to be a duplicate!
There are people who will take your content and publish it elsewhere and then here and there replace some of your words with theirs, and maybe not even correctly. Happened to me. That is duplicate content in my opinion.
I’m totally agree with you!
Edited posts are not the same as duplicated posts…
I think so, but there were different opinions!
I agree with you. Edited post is not the same as duplicated one. When editing an article and hitting the submit button, it replaces the older one with an updated content. Starting January 2020, I will start editing my previous posts.
I’m glad you agree with my point of view!
We are humans and we do not think the same way. It is normal to have different opinions. I don’t mind this. By this posting I just wanted to highlight that a post I edit is not a duplicate post!
I have an advice for you, if you allow me. Stop taking everything very personally. Be a little more detached and ignore the things you don’t like.
i hope that no one told you that edited posts were duplicate. If someone told you that I am very sorry that happened.
Your statement “it is good for Virily” would be the one I would question. Virily makes money by views. The reality of the views is Virily is going to get more google revenue from external views (non-virily users)
therein lies the value for Virily. So if you are sharing posts to social media and driving 30 to 50 or more external views you are helping Virily and all other authors.
Editing a post in and of itself doesn’t do anything.
But I do agree completely it is not duplicate and no one should say that.
I don’t agree you. I was geting many external views to my old content because of google seach. We add keywords and virily posts appesr on google search. Niw, when photos fall out ofold pists, google eliminate such pists from its search engine. I agrrr Ileaba, it is good to edit old damagef pists, it helps virily to get more vievs. I will continue editing those looking weird pists where all pjotos are missing.
Oh my god, typed in driving car from phone so a lot of mistakes, i am sorry
no worries – errors in comments can’t be edited and I make a lot.
PS I just did a search on Google, I can find old wander projects (without pictures) they are not removed from Google search.
Not sure that is a concern.
Interesting, I don’t see that. I watch posts and I watch the rate of change. I do not see the rate being the same for edited posts and new posts.
I see new posts and the rate to 100 views being the primary view driver.
Old or edited posts take 3 and 4 times as long to add 40 views.
So I would argue that really isn’t the case.
Edited posts give the site a more pleasing look than broken posts. That’s what I was talking about! I do not follow the views obtained by the site.
just to be fair you said “better for virily” what I think you meant to say was “better presentation of content on Virily.”
Views matter. if you want to get paid we have to have views!!!!
As I said, English is not my strength. However, I will stick to the idea that content that looks good is beneficial to Virily. We have different opinions because we are different. I look at things from an aesthetic point of view, you look at them from a profit point of view!?
I suspect you meant something else with your comment. I will go with I do care about the site surviving. NIUME looked good until it didn’t, then it was gone. So there has to be a balance.
Again i remind you, i was the push in July to get edited posts. I am not against the edited posts just the impact.
The reality right now views on the site are down. They are down a lot.
Down enough in fact that it could mean the site can’t operate.
I hope Virily will survive for many years. You are the specialist and you know more than I do. But I think the edited posts do not harm the site. Do you believe this?
honestly, at this point I can’t tell.
Edited posts do not gain as many views in the trending and most commented categories as a new post in that category does (if that makes sense).
if we take most commented, the edited post gains 20 views.
Once a new post makes that list it gains more than 40 views.
That said, I don’t have enough data right now to say it is bad.
Since the fixes and the new features, we have seen a massive decline in views. I worry about that.
Are you referring to the total number of views on the site or the number of views for certain users, when you say they decreased? As for the views on my posts, they remained the same. What I can say is that the value of these views has decreased, not their number!
for the whole site views are down. Many users have said between 20 and 30%
but I also know your views are down.
For example, you used to get to 100 views in less than 48 hours (I watched many of your posts you are right on the edge of the mover’s list!)
you have had a couple in the last month that did that, but mostly it is taking longer to get to 100 views.
I don’t think you’ve as impacted as others. But there are others who have been really impacted. But your views are taking longer to move the post.
I am convinced that if I could be more active with comments on other posts, I would get more views on my posts. This was an experience I did and probably then my posts got 100 views in less than 48 hours. In the rest the average of the views was about 50 or less. There are not many posts on the site that get over 100 views in 48 hours apart from Carol’s posts.
there are actually many. Most of my tech posts get more than 100 in less than 48 hours.
Carol does as well frequency. There are other writers (Albert does often well past 100 in 48 hours)
I’ve to disagree to some extent.
A broken post (missing images) will make a site looks bad and unattended. External users are not going to spend hours or days like we do to “wait for problems to go away”… most users, unfortunately will go away the moment a few pictures doesn’t load or took “too long to load” …
I don’t disagree with your points at all.
I just want to be clear that edited posts are fine. I was the driver to get that change in the July process.
I like editing.
The impact of edited posts is a lot less than people think in terms of value to Virily right now.
An edited post gives a neat look to the site while a broken post gives a bad look to the site. This is my opinion.
interesting opinion.
I don’t have an issue with that. My only thought would be, we need content that pops and that people want.
We will never know for sure what people want to see. I saw very interesting posts with very few views and not as interesting posts with a very large number of views. We live in a world characterized by “speed”. Nobody has time to read long posts even if they are interesting. A post containing photos is easier to view. I’m not just referring to Virily, I’m referring to any other site in general!
I totally agree with you, dear alibb! A broken post is negative for the site.
I had many external views on my posts, all coming from google searches. Imagine someone is searching for #macrophotograpy(the hastag remains in the post) and the search engine leads to Virily’s site. But when the searcher gets to the site, what does he see? Nothing! Will he come on Virily a second time? NOT. Are external views thus lost? Yes! Is this beneficial to Virily? Not! It is beneficial for the site to make all the pictures visible by editing all the posts!!!!
I don’t disagree with you. There are reasons to edit and many of them valid. There is also abuse of edit. For example, if the only reason to edit is to draw more views and nothing was truly fixed that seems shady to me. If you are simply adding a paragraph after paragraph one edit at a time to make your post appear in the top ~ that seems shady.
True edits for the right reason are not a bad thing. Right now I don’t want to get caught up in it.
I agree that ethical edits are excellent and I would be sad if I didn’t get to see every single picture you have posted and as many times as I want. They bring me joy.
I understand your point of view. I just wanted to point out why I find it beneficial to edit my posts. I do not edit my posts to get more views. I edit them because I want my photos to be visible. It may seem a little selfish, but … I can do nothing!
I have watched this site for nearly 3 years now. I can tell you that your example is one. I can show you 100 other examples where people come back.
I under your point about edited posts when people are looking for something in particular, we will lose them.
But for now, it does not impact views on Virily to edits posts which is what you said.
It makes the post look nicer I agree.