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Does posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines?

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I wonder if posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines.

I found 2 old related Q&A:

So I wonder, in 2025, does posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines?

For example, if I post this question on SE, Reddit and Codidact, will it hurt their rankings in search engines?


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-1 for all the cross-posting (4 comments)
Duplicate: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/293813 (1 comment)
-1 for all the cross-posting
Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 3 days ago

Right now, this question is at +0,-4 and your rep is -59. Clearly the users dislike what you are doing, yet you continue doing it. I can't say for sure why others downvote, but I suspect all the cross-posting is a significant part of it.

Personally I'm fed up with it, your excessive use of animation when still images or even just good descriptions would convey the information better, and your "answers" that are just scraped from other sites. I'm going to make it a point to downvote all such posts in the future.

Olin Lathrop‭ Get used to it. Almost nobody uses codidact, and over 90% of my non-meta questions don't get any answers on Codidact so I'm not going to only post on Codidact.

I prefer animations over a long text.

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Why should anyone answer your question when you've asked it simultaneously to different groups? You are asking multiple independent groups to do the same favor for you. That feels like volunteer abuse to the volunteers, and is worthy of downvotes.

Animations are a difficult way to get information. For me at least, trying to figure out the context of what I'm looking at as things move around, flash, and then poof away is too irritating to bother. You might like animations because you don't have to put much effort into them, but that's no different from writing in txt spk or other shortcuts that save writing a little time at the expense of costing the reader a lot of time. Being rude to the volunteers you seek a favor from is not a good way to get said favor.

Franck Dernoncourt‭ wrote 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago

Olin Lathrop‭

Why should anyone answer your question when you've asked it simultaneously to different groups? You are asking multiple independent groups to do the same favor for you. That feels like volunteer abuse to the volunteers, and is worthy of downvotes.

What's the difference between asking several users vs. asking several groups of users?

You might like animations because you don't have to put much effort into them

It takes time to record, possibly compress, and upload an animation. It's typically faster to write. But I like animations because:

  • they're less ambiguous
  • they show that the behavior truly happened
  • they often provide more context than text

As someone who wrote 4.3k answers on SE (admittedly less than your ~7.1k) so don't paint me as a leecher, though I'm becoming one with all the BS I face on SE, Reddit, Quora, etc.), I prefer when OPs post animations.