Free Article. Any good?

[ms4u]

Hi,

Few days ago, I came across some few article directory site, such as isnare.com, freecontentarticles.com, ezinearticles and etc. I want to copy some of those useful articles and reprinted in my site, as long as I acknowledged the author and source at the bottom of the article.

My question is using those articles would it affect my PR, SEO of my directory? What I am worry a bit, are those articles might be duplicate in other sites, and then I get penalized from Google. Am I stupid to think so?

If you copy those articles, then the pages where you add those articles might face duplicate content penalty. Other then that i don't think it would affect your site PR or SERP ranking. Do it if you think those articles can be useful for your users.

[rhyswynne]

I've heard a lot about these duplicate content penalties, but if they are useful for your readers, then why not.

As long as you keep the relevant content, all the duplicate content penalty will do (I believe) is unrank that page or keep it low. It shouldn't really harm the rest of your site (though I could be wrong).

[ms4u]

Hi thanks for the feedback,

When you mentioned penalties on the article page:

the pages where you add those articles might face duplicate content penalty

As I am using phpLD, I put the articles in categories or sub-categories level, when you mentioned penalty, is it at the category level or JUST at the article page alone?

Originally Posted by ms4u

Hi thanks for the feedback,

When you mentioned penalties on the article page:



As I am using phpLD, I put the articles in categories or sub-categories level, when you mentioned penalty, is it at the category level or JUST at the article page alone?

Just the artcile page alone.

[KingPin]

If you was clever about it and didn't want to get slammed for dupe content, you could always use the robots.txt and/or the nofollow tag for that page

KP

[ms4u]

Hi KP,

Good thinking about the "nofollow" tag. How do I do it? At meta tag level? If so, what is the format of that statement? How should I write it?

[stefan_w]

If you rewrite the original text 30% then the google does not perceive it as copying , and you may use it calm. From a legal viewpoint there is not a trouble then though if you refer to the original author.

[rhyswynne]

Originally Posted by stefan_w

If you rewrite the original text 30% then the google does not perceive it as copying , and you may use it calm. From a legal viewpoint there is not a trouble then though if you refer to the original author.

I think that's a decent idea, but I don't like the methods. If google say you rewrite 30% of the article, then it won't consider it duplicate content. I'm not sure I follow that. Say if you have an article with 10 paragraphs, if you change the first 3, but leave 7 exactly as they were, then surely there'll be a bit of Google Questioning, n'est pas?

[stefan_w]

Ja I did not think of a paragraph, but the full text 30% onto his transformation. You digest the text practically, and you rewrite it according to your own flavour. You did not write it in the method how he is you of course. I rewrite articles in that form, that I digest them and I insert it into my text with the transliteration of the more important parts.