Good post even though I cannot agree with everything that the guys you refer to are saying.

In fact I only agree with the last point, maybe.

The ranking is not that important anymore but everything else is.

If you believe that Google doesn’t care about duplicate content you’ll be doomed to likely not having your page shown in Google at all.

It is very easily provable.

Have you ever seen a Google search results page where Google says there are hundreds if not thousand of results and showing only the first 25 or 100?

How would you like to be among those not even showing? The reason they are not shown is duplicate content.

By the way you have a number of spam comments here. Especially one guy shows up several times with lip service comments.

Take care,
Vance
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