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Translation and SEO: How to Avoid Duplicate Content

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Everyone who works on the web will have already noticed the various problems with duplicate content. These have a significant impact on SEO. For years, "copying" has tormented web professionals and today there is still no concrete way out. However, there is a counterpart to consider: translations. What do Google bots think about translations? What are the consequences of having content copied on the site? What is copied content? As Google notes, duplicate content is "substantial blocks of content that match quite prominently." In short, if you do a very trivial copy-paste from another site, it will obviously be considered duplicate content. But be careful: if you also do it on your site between two different sections it is considered duplicate content in turn. So I can't copy and re-paste the contents of my site? Not really, but if you use a quote or a paragraph or two, you won't have much of a problem in most cases. To ensure that your website com