Article Marketing Question - Please Help!

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I'm doing some article marketing for a scaffolding company and I know very little about scaffolding. I've found some articles on scaffolding, can I take their content, then change a few words and the links to my links and resubmit them as our articles?

Does it count as duplicate content?

Does anyone else do this?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tracey_Meagher
    You need to change more than a 'few' words to be ethical about it but also to avoid the duplicate content issue. Changing 50 -75% is what I'd recommend.
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    • Profile picture of the author MichaelParsons
      It is my experience that the duplicate content slap comes from duplicating content on YOUR OWN site, not content on another site.

      Your concern should be plagiarism.

      Use the article unchanged if you need, but with FULL recognition of the original author, including name and a link to the original article. Permission might be a nice thing to get as well.

      Better to do what Tracey said, change a majority of it, using the original as a starting point for independent research.
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      • Profile picture of the author tgro03
        If you think about it, whenever someone does research for a paper in school they are just basically 'rewriting' the info in their own words.

        It's the same thing here. Just make sure that you rewrite the whole article in your own words and you'll be fine.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tracey_Meagher
          Yes, true, but in a school there'e no profit motive, and usually the paper is not published for the outside world to search and find!
          Most business sites will also have a copyright disclaimer somewhere on the site. Usually in the footer. Read this before you copy anything. Better to try rewriting in your own words if you can, but I realise that sometimes there are keywords and technical terms which might be useful.

          You can also get articles written (outsourced) for a few dollars if you need them and don't want to go to the effort of finding content and writing them yourself.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by bluebaboondesign.com View Post

        I'm doing some article marketing for a scaffolding company
        It's infinitely preferable to doing some scaffolding for an article directory, I'm sure ...

        Originally Posted by x3xsolxdierx3x View Post

        If I were apart of that scaffolding company, and you did that, I would not be a happy camper....
        No, indeed ... nor (I suspect) would you be a happy scaffolder if you were part of a tent company.

        If you're using what you learn from it as part of your source material, BBD, and writing something different, that's legitimate and nobody can complain - and many writers do that, to a greater or a lesser extent.
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  • Profile picture of the author markj892
    when I was getting into that (jumping around) I tried a little bit of article marketing and I used copyscape.com to check and see if it was plagiarizing anything! you might check that out ? hope it helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author bigalan6622
    Or you could just actually write your own article.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris G
    Search "public domain scaffolding". That will help you find some content for writing your articles. You can use any text as well within the content you find.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ty Neal
    My friend you may be better off writing your own articles, or I will say re write about 90% of the content from the articles that you do have.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    I reckon with a bit of effort you could easily find some unique content. Why not interview the company and ask them about their USP's and then slant articles to emphasise these points?

    This is off course unless they are paying you a couple of dollars an article just for some quick backlinks ... if this is the case I would just do good quality re-writes.

    Just do the RIGHT thing and you will not fail!!

    John
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