Plagiarism 5% hurt SEO?

Google does not care if your content is unique or not. The content owner you are stealing from, on the other hand, most likely will care!

Posted by: @trafficdeveloperseo1

Does 5 percent of plagiarism hurt SEO?
Does it have to be 100% unique?

Hi there,

yes it can, but not because of Google, if not because you can get sued by the content owner if he has a patent on it.

Best regards,

Melanie

Yes, plagiarism does matter when it comes to SEO.
Almost all search engines consider the originality of content when determining where to rank a website. You will not rank as high as you want when you copy someone's content.
5% will not impact much but a little bit. If you can post original content, it will be much appreciated by search engines and users.