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Is this legal and is it profitable?

by svri
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Using RSS feeds to make a little news website, similar to this one: Suriname Nieuws - Het overzicht van het actuele Surinaamse nieuws

I want to make one for my local state. This is fully automated due to RSS and the news articles get updated automatically, which is great, giving the source to each one with a hyperlink to the article itself.

I'm guessing the only way to make money off of this would be from ads like the guy from the link above used?
#legal #profitable
  • Profile picture of the author IhaveAdream
    i think it is legal but you hardly rank your site or get it indexed. You got to do your own promotion.
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    • Profile picture of the author svri
      Originally Posted by IhaveAdream View Post

      i think it is legal but you hardly rank your site or get it indexed. You got to do your own promotion.
      Why wouldn't I be able to get it ranked? I have established a set of keywords for which I can get an EMD averaging about 2000 local searches a month. I'm sure the article titles would help too?
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve McD
        Originally Posted by svri View Post

        Why wouldn't I be able to get it ranked? I have established a set of keywords for which I can get an EMD averaging about 2000 local searches a month. I'm sure the article titles would help too?
        The reason it'd be harder to rank is the RSS feed is duplicate content, not ideal for ranking. It's possibly but a much more uphill battle.
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      • Profile picture of the author IhaveAdream
        Originally Posted by svri View Post

        Why wouldn't I be able to get it ranked? I have established a set of keywords for which I can get an EMD averaging about 2000 local searches a month. I'm sure the article titles would help too?
        Depends on the competition, normally you need an article with at least 500 words to get your page indexed fast. I doubt EMD + titles only will get your indexed, those titles from RSS feed is considered duplicated content. The only way for such site is do your own promotion IMO.
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  • Profile picture of the author stoltingmediagroup
    Originally Posted by svri View Post

    Using RSS feeds to make a little news website, similar to this one: Suriname Nieuws - Het overzicht van het actuele Surinaamse nieuws
    I can actually read the site since it's Dutch, and from it I can see once again that 98 % of it is negative news about people dying in traffic and about terrible world issues. Maybe if you can spin it into something more positive, (or maybe just something different) then you might have a new angle to work from.
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberSEO
    She shot answer is: yes it is. I would suggest you to use this freeware plugin for that: http://wordpress.org/plugins/cybersyn/
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    • Profile picture of the author svri
      Originally Posted by CyberSEO View Post

      She shot answer is: yes it is. I would suggest you to use this freeware plugin for that: WordPress › CyberSyn « WordPress Plugins
      Is your answer to both legal and profitable? And thanks for the plugin.
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      • Profile picture of the author CyberSEO
        Originally Posted by svri View Post

        Is your answer to both legal and profitable? And thanks for the plugin.
        Yes. It is both: legal (you don't steal anything) and profitable if you will work hard. I mean you have to make your site really useful (an eye-catching design, properly picked feeds etc).
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  • Profile picture of the author play2win727
    It's legal but generic news sits are rarely profitable. The traffic is just not ad click friendly from my experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author svri
    Alright thanks for the clarification guys. Doesn't sound like it's worth it.
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