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Website wishes to publish my content...

by KayaIsmail
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I run a Sports blog, and have been approached by a blog with a similar theme.

They have asked my permission to to gradually publish many of my featured articles on their website (full copy & paste job) along with a link to my website and twitter page on the same page.

I know that having one or two articles published on other websites is all good - so long as they link back to you on the same page, but I was wondering about the impact of them publishing more than just one or two of my posts. They seem to be happy to, eventually, publish all of my featured content.

So long as they constantly link back to me on every post they publish can this in anyway negatively impact my blog?

Thanks in advance.
#content #publish #website #wishes
  • Profile picture of the author bonesaj
    well having the duplicate content will ruin any plans of seo for the both of your probably, find out what their traffic is like etc first and if your doing seo then no do not do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by bonesaj View Post

    well having the duplicate content will ruin any plans of seo for the both of your probably
    Sorry, but this is completely wrong. :p

    You're confusing "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", here. They're actually two completely different things. Just to make it really clear for you, the differences between the two are briefly explained in this post and this little article.

    What the OP describes above is actually very similar to the business model of "article syndication". The world's leading sports and news websites clearly wouldn't be syndicating almost all their content from places like Reuters and Associated Press if there were any potential SEO problems involved in doing so, would they?

    Originally Posted by KayaIsmail View Post

    So long as they constantly link back to me on every post they publish can this in anyway negatively impact my blog?
    That's a big and sometimes complicated question. Whenever I see this question, I always instinctively want to say "no, it can't", but the reality is that that isn't always completely correct.

    It's possible, if they're something like an "authority site" and your site's new and/or relatively disadvantaged for SEO for any reasons, that search-terms/keywords included in any of those articles may rank better on their site than they do on yours, and it's even possible that the copies on their site might appear in Google's main index and those on your siteonly in the supplemental index (that can be temporary, too, and it can often be reversed). If that's potentially a big issue for you, then give them 2 or 3 articles first and see how it goes?

    There are many SEO advantages to your site, too, in the long run. If the content of their site is relevant to the content of yours (and I'm guessing it must be, otherwise they wouldn't want the articles in the first place?), then those are very valuable backlinks for you.

    This content syndication is called "article marketing". Many of us here "do this for a living" and get great traffic-flow (as well as SEO benefits) from it.

    Here's a one-post overview of "how it works": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794
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    • Profile picture of the author KayaIsmail
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Sorry, but this is completely wrong. :p

      You're confusing "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", here. They're actually two completely different things. Just to make it really clear for you, the differences between the two are briefly explained in this post and this little article.

      What the OP describes above is actually very similar to the business model of "article syndication". The world's leading sports and news websites clearly wouldn't be syndicating almost all their content from places like Reuters and Associated Press if there were any potential SEO problems involved in doing so, would they?



      That's a big and complicated question.

      It's possible, if they're something like an "authority site" and your site's new and/or relatively disadvantaged for SEO for any reasons, that search-terms/keywords included in any of those articles may rank better on their site than they do on yours, and it's possible that the copies on their site might appear in the main index and those on your site in the supplemental index (that can be temporary, too, and it can often be reversed). If that's potentially a big issue for you, then give them 2 or 3 articles first and see how it goes?

      There are many SEO advantages to your site, too, in the long run. If the content of their site is relevant to the content of yours (and I'm guessing it must be, otherwise they wouldn't want the articles in the first place?), then those are very valuable backlinks for you.

      This content syndication is called "article marketing". Many of us here "do this for a living" and get great traffic-flow (as well as SEO benefits) from it.

      Here's a one-post overview of "how it works": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794
      Thank you very, very much for this response. I was already aware of those points, but I needed a more professional opinion seeing as how they'll be using quite a lot of my content. I was feeling unsure about the scale of what they were doing more than anything.

      But thanks, that's cleared a lot up for me!
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