using other people's content

qualo

qualo

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I have a site in big niche and was wondering what would happen if i went to ezine articles and copied and pasted 100 articles into a blog and set them to post every 2-3 days.
would the content be ignored because google has already indexed it on ezine, or could it generate lots of traffic? the resorce box would obviously be kept, but i could only write say 5 articles in the time it takes to post 100 from ezine.
anyone got experience with using other people's content?
 


What the fuck? No wonder this is called the noob section.

What is the point of copying the content? Don't you want your site to be indexed? If G has indexed it somewhere else and if they index it on your blog too, then how do you intend making the site rank? If you are making a blog for the sake of shit or if you have some really good marketing option other than SEO, then go for it. Otherwise, pay a little and people like me can write original content for you.

Use your brains, if you copied someone else's paper, you think the teacher is going to be impressed?
 
HundredProof said:
Use your brains, if you copied someone else's paper, you think the teacher is going to be impressed?
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used to copy in school and teacher was impressed as i got good grades. i did make a change or two so how about making the blog post title different (article title same in post), and adding my own introduction and conclusion to a good ezine article.
this way i get a bit of uniqueness and can add some keywords and links of my own into the blog post. the original author will still have his complete article and resource box for his links, and i'll have a very fast and free way of making an informative blog post. i've just been reading up on this and it seems it is best to do it on new articles that haven't been published anywhere but ezine.

i'm not interested in paying someone to write articles for me at the moment, just looking for new content generation method for now. i get pretty bored writing my own so a few sessions pasting loads of other people's seemed like a possible way to keep the site updated.
 
If you're broke then take articles and rewrite them. Or just gather the info and write new ones.

You can get duplicate content to rank but you have to know about SEO and proper backlinking. As a newb you'd probably be fighting to make it rank when you could have just written something original and had an easier time.

I've tried using autoblogging and autospinning and trying to run duplicate content through google translate and shit, but it never works nearly as well as just writing something new. But I hate writing about stuff I'm not interested in so I hired someone to write for me.
 
If you grab enough articles, eventually some of them will make it into the index. That said, I see two red flags with the tactics you laid out:

1. Number of Pages
Let's say Google is only willing to pick up 10% of the content on your site (an optimistic percentage for a site with duplicate content). With 100 hundred articles posted, you would barely see any traffic trickle in through search. You'll definitely want to have a much larger set of posts.

2. Source of Content
A lot of the time, article writers don't just post their content on one site (ezine articles) and begin working on their next writeup. They will use submission software and scripts to have one article published on hundreds (and there are hundreds) of article sites. At that point, website owners like yourself will grab the content, maybe tweak it a bit, and post it on their sites. Therefore, by the time any of the content from ezine reaches the front page of your blog, Google will just see it as duplicate and skip over it.

I can't say I'll discourage anyone from trying anything, but there are definitely a few things to keep in mind before you begin investing time into a site based on this model.
 
thanks for the last 2 replies. so i recon if i'm gonna bother writing a summary and conclusion i might as well re-write the main articles briefly too.
that said i'm gonna try pasting some of an article into google and if it just gives 1 result (ezine), i've read elesewhere that it is still likely to get indexed again. so if i see a big article that is gonna take time to rewrite that i want then do the copying thing, but most ezines can easily be rewritten as they are short and basic.
so instead of 100 just copied i recon 50 rewritten and 50 of the better ones not published elsewhere copied with a bit of original text around it.
so how do i turn this $12,345 a week method into an ebook? :P
 
qualo said:
thanks for the last 2 replies. so i recon if i'm gonna bother writing a summary and conclusion i might as well re-write the main articles briefly too.
that said i'm gonna try pasting some of an article into google and if it just gives 1 result (ezine), i've read elesewhere that it is still likely to get indexed again. so if i see a big article that is gonna take time to rewrite that i want then do the copying thing, but most ezines can easily be rewritten as they are short and basic.
so instead of 100 just copied i recon 50 rewritten and 50 of the better ones not published elsewhere copied with a bit of original text around it.
so how do i turn this $12,345 a week method into an ebook? :P
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You're definitely on the right track, but we're not quite there yet. Even if Google indexes all of your articles, you may only see a few visitors a week, which will take an awful long time to even pay for your domain.

What are some ways you can add a lot of content easily? A lot of sites do it in several different ways. Look at Digg, which is essentially a collection of links to articles with a short explanation. But Google loves Digg because visitors' comments provide lots of delicious content. In fact, the site has 17MM pages indexed, and it all originated from content that already existed elsewhere.

Keep thinking and keep tweaking your concept. You're asking the same questions I did a few years ago. You're getting closer.
 
Nothing wrong with syndicated articles if giving credit to author. It's what most of the
web is all about. Everyday, everywhere I go, I see same shit. Blog posts that are
nothing but ping back excerpts. Help files (for code and html) all say the same thing.

RSS means what?

And keep in mind, most article writers submit to more than one article directory, yet
those article directories rank fine.

Bompa
 
I've been checking some articles out and almost all of them are duplicated. I think copying them will just make a site look big. Using someone else's is going to have no SEO value. It is so easy to write an article when expanding 1st page results in google that i'm gonna bin this idea and stick to writing 300 word shit instead.
Although it sounds like Ben has used something similar for goodness, pray tell.
 
HundredProof said:
If G has indexed it somewhere else and if they index it on your blog too, then how do you intend making the site rank?
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That's not how it works, buddy. G will give credit to the site with the most authority, not to the site on which the content got found first.
 
i'm happy now using the occasional ezine article on pages that aren't on the menu, i'm adding them on the off chance it picks up new visitors because of the article or the introduction i give, takes a few seconds and actually is very useful to readers and i know google and the original article writers are cool with it.
on main pages i'm just quickly re-writing other peoples content into shorter articles that are heavy on keywords. (finding this easiest with long articles or just expanding text on 1st page results in google)

i just googled markov chain and it says its some random maths thing- is that what sitejunk.com does? basically collects various sentences from loads of places based on a KW. i guess thats what article spinning software does only better than sitejunk.
 
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