Duplicate Content Sitemap/Indexing Question

[amplify]

So, I have the site T.Y.V.M. and it ranked about 30 without content because exact matches.

I have done no link building except for occasional Tweets and FB likes.

Since there are 20+ pages of content, the tweets and 6 months in the making, it has moved to an average position of 8.5 giving me 4500+ impressions with VERY low CTR on Google search.

I have not submitted a sitemap for the website as I'm unsure if it can be punished for duplicate content.

If you look at the first post and click it, it shows you the same exact content. However, the page you're coming from has 9 other posts (all linking to somewhat SEO friendly URLs).

My question is, should I submit a sitemap with all pages, the main pages or the main pages and categories? Which one if any would be beneficial to move up in rank?

Additionally, I've noticed with AdSense advertising, your website is ranked higher than one without. Since I've tested this theory (and possibly others see it as well), should I put up AdSense?

Thanks!

 

[dcristo]

What is the correlation between having a sitemap and duplicate content? If you have a lot of dup content, you will get punished, regardless of whether you have a sitemap for your site.

 

[amplify]

Ok, then my next question. For instance Page X has a post of "XYZ" and links directly to a post of "XYZ", but Page X also contains content of 9 other full posts. Is that a penalization for duplicate content?

I’ve always used snippets and linked to the whole article, so I am unaware of how G looks at this.