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If I write a blog, then use the same information to create a slideshare presentation, will that help or hurt my website’s SEO?

24th June 2013

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I would be absolutely amazed if you were hit by a duplicate content penalty for this. To a search engine spider (even a super advanced one) content formatted as a blog post and similar content repurposed as slides will look completely different.