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Using someone else articles to build a site

by abcd1234
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Hypothetically, say I build a site and grab about 1000 different articles around the same subject from the article directorys.

Then I make 1000 seperate pages and on each page I place 1 article including the Authors name and the link to his website, as thats allowed according to the article directorys policys, so nothing wrong with that right? And on top of it I add one link on each page that directs to my mainpage.

How would such website rank?
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  • Profile picture of the author BenoitT
    If you post 1000 articles in 1 day, their is a very good chance you will get banned from Google. I wouldn't put more than 5 every day. In my opnion, it is WAY better to post 5 articles/week with keywords you target and build links. You'll get more visitors overall.
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      Interesting, however, say I start a webshop, with 1000 products + descriptions and I launch it, thats normal, Google can't punish me for that, Google should think, wow that guy did a great bit of preparation.

      Hobbysites aren't build in 1 day, but authority informational sites and webshops are.
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      • Profile picture of the author BenoitT
        Originally Posted by abcd1234 View Post

        Interesting, however, say I start a webshop, with 1000 products + descriptions and I launch it, thats normal, Google can't punish me for that, Google should think, wow that guy did a great bit of preparation.

        Hobbysites aren't build in 1 day, but authority informational sites and webshops are.
        Authority sites aren't built in 1 day you can be sure. However, yes you can fill of crap your website and you'll get search engine traffic. Is it what you want to do?
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        • Profile picture of the author abcd1234
          Originally Posted by BenoitT View Post

          Authority sites aren't built in 1 day you can be sure. However, yes you can fill of crap your website and you'll get search engine traffic. Is it what you want to do?
          Yes using the ctrl-c / ctrl-v is my biggest passion :p

          No I am just a lousy writer, and I dont want to start 100 different microsites, for several reasons, 1 of them is getting banned by Google, and secondly I will get lost in the organisation of all of it.

          I builded a site about mortgage in my own language and created about 200 pages so far, with no content, just an empty shell with the message: "page under construction" and I'm looking up against filling up all these pages, I wanted to just Google content and rewrite it in my own words, but that could still be seen as theft and requires a lot of work so then this idea jumped in my mind, as I read that duplicate content is only duplicate when it's available on the same domain.

          And as long as I make the outgoing links no-follow I shouldn't loose too much linkjuice as thats also kinda discussable of what I've read.

          So I think my mission will be to start about 10 different niche's and collect as much content as possible from existing article directorys related to that specific niche. I like to start on 1 thing first so first I'll setup 1 site and see how it go's with no linkbuilding (only spending time on gathering content, researching long keyword phrases and onpage SEO) and then see how it will run out of it own.
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  • Profile picture of the author LarryHaywood
    Originally Posted by abcd1234 View Post

    Hypothetically, say I build a site and grab about 1000 different articles around the same subject from the article directorys.

    Then I make 1000 seperate pages and on each page I place 1 article including the Authors name and the link to his website, as thats allowed according to the article directorys policys, so nothing wrong with that right? And on top of it I add one link on each page that directs to my mainpage.

    How would such website rank?
    abcd, this is how the article directories do it. Use other peoples articles to build their sites... If I was going to add 1k pages/articles, I also would probably add some to start with and then keep adding them. I don't think there is a certain number which you must stay under. There are people adding much more than 5 articles a day I think. I know I am on my article directory site, WordOODLE.com, is getting se traffic for some articles posted the very next day and I don't limit myself to 5 articles a day. I do as many as I can...
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    • Profile picture of the author BenoitT
      Originally Posted by LarryHaywood View Post

      abcd, this is how the article directories do it. Use other peoples articles to build their sites... If I was going to add 1k pages/articles, I also would probably add some to start with and then keep adding them. I don't think there is a certain number which you must stay under. There are people adding much more than 5 articles a day I think. I know I am on my article directory site, WordOODLE.com, is getting se traffic for some articles posted the very next day and I don't limit myself to 5 articles a day. I do as many as I can...
      You're right for that one. You can chose quantity over quality. It works great if your monetization is through Ads.
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    • Profile picture of the author abcd1234
      Originally Posted by LarryHaywood View Post

      abcd, this is how the article directories do it. Use other peoples articles to build their sites... If I was going to add 1k pages/articles, I also would probably add some to start with and then keep adding them. I don't think there is a certain number which you must stay under. There are people adding much more than 5 articles a day I think. I know I am on my article directory site, WordOODLE.com, is getting se traffic for some articles posted the very next day and I don't limit myself to 5 articles a day. I do as many as I can...
      May I ask why you dont start several article directory's for different niches so Google will see you as a huge authority on that front? Instead of one big mix?
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      • Profile picture of the author LarryHaywood
        Originally Posted by abcd1234 View Post

        May I ask why you dont start several article directory's for different niches so Google will see you as a huge authority on that front? Instead of one big mix?
        My plate is quite full at the moment. Time is limited and current projects and sites need my love. I do think that would be a good way to go though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
    Originally Posted by abcd1234 View Post

    Hypothetically, say I build a site and grab about 1000 different articles around the same subject from the article directorys.

    Then I make 1000 seperate pages and on each page I place 1 article including the Authors name and the link to his website, as thats allowed according to the article directorys policys, so nothing wrong with that right? And on top of it I add one link on each page that directs to my mainpage.

    How would such website rank?
    Probably would not rank well at all. By your description all of your links are internal links, not incoming links from authority sites, or even non-authority sites.

    Google would have no reason to reward you with good rankings since no one has voted for your site by giving you links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Always-A-Warrior
    Originally Posted by abcd1234 View Post

    Hypothetically, say I build a site and grab about 1000 different articles around the same subject from the article directorys.

    Then I make 1000 seperate pages and on each page I place 1 article including the Authors name and the link to his website, as thats allowed according to the article directorys policys, so nothing wrong with that right? And on top of it I add one link on each page that directs to my mainpage.

    How would such website rank?
    Nothing wrong with that but it won't rank. Why?. It's Duplicate Content.

    You'll have the exact same article that's already published on an authority site. Search Engines hate duplicate content.

    Quantity over quality means Quit now. You'll be wasting your time and money.
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    • Profile picture of the author bretski
      Originally Posted by Always-A-Warrior View Post

      Nothing wrong with that but it won't rank. Why?. It's Duplicate Content.

      You'll have the exact same article that's already published on an authority site. Search Engines hate duplicate content.

      Quantity over quality means Quit now. You'll be wasting your time and money.
      Duplicate content refers only to having the same content on different pages on your own site. I have many articles that are published on my site and in article directories and also that have been picked up by publishers and thus syndicated and all of them show up as backlinks as well as drive traffic to my site.

      As far as what the OP was asking; I would suggest a mixture of your own articles and articles from directories if you wish to use other people's content. There is nothing wrong with this and this tends to be one of the benefits of publishing stuff to article directories. Your brain is working in the right direction and the fact that you are going to be giving the authors the backlink is much better than folks who just pilfer directories... keep things on the up and up and you'll be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikemcmillan
    I would also check the TOS at the article directories you choose. I'm not going to go look it up right now, and I could be mistaken on this, but I believe that EZA states you can use no more than 25 of their articles on any one domain in one year's time.

    Like I say, don't take my word as gospel, but I'd give it a careful check before pulling too many articles from one directory quickly. Just a head-up. Good luck though--Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author earnoncomputer
      Why should you not use fresh contents for your websites? I am of the view that well researched, SEO, high quality contents are more preferred by the visitors. Am I not right?
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