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Going about duplicate content the right away

by adribabe
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I'm not sure if this is "duplicate" content or if there's another term for it, but I will be copying content from other sites.

I'm adding a job board listings relevant to my industry to my website.

Obviously I'm not going to re-write 100s of job descriptions from various sites for companies that are hiring in the industry. The text will be unchanged.

I'm not trying to generate organic traffic, but simply to offer a free new and unique service to visitors.

My concerns are:

Will having so much duplicate content on my website make my current organic traffic suffer?

How do I handle so much duplicate content? no-index every page, or ?

Please advise?

Thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author Oling
    Copying from other sites needs permission from the owners of these websites. Guess you need to be careful about going on this...

    just my 2 cents
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    • Profile picture of the author adribabe
      I need their permission to post job postings that they themselves have taken from elsewhere? That doesn't make much sense.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        You complained in another thread that someone was "scraping" content from your site.

        ....but it's ok for you to do it?

        Better check the copyright policies on the sites you intend to "take" from.

        It's not a duplicate content issue - it's a copyright issue.
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        • Profile picture of the author adribabe
          I think there's a lack of understanding going on here, so in case it's from my communication let me clarify:

          Am I not intending to copy original unique content from Site A or Site B.

          I am considering copying content found on Site A and/or Site B, which is the exact same content on Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, LinkedIn.com, SimplyHired.com, Craigslist, etc.

          I'm wondering how all of these sites have the same job postings from millions of employers across the world and don't get in trouble for it.

          Is a straight answer really that complicated? If you don't know just say "I don't know."

          I think most hiring managers will be happy with extra exposure. Don't you?
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        • Profile picture of the author adribabe
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          You complained in another thread that someone was "scraping" content from your site.

          ....but it's ok for you to do it?
          I complained someone was scraping original content.
          I have no idea what this has to do with scraping content already made publicly available by hiring managers (not website owners) on a multitude of websites.

          Could you please explain how this is relevant or similar?

          Job postings are the intellectual property of the businesses that create them, not the secondary businesses that publish them.
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          • Profile picture of the author Kay King
            I'm wondering how all of these sites have the same job postings from millions of employers across the world and don't get in trouble for it.
            I don't know for sure - but I would expect they subscribe to large job listing databases. This would be similar to the way top news sites are able to publish the same same news stories....by being paid members of news distribution networks.

            Job postings are the intellectual property of the businesses that create them, not the secondary businesses that publish them.
            Is that a legal opinion or an assumption? Maybe there's no problem doing what you propose - but if it were me I'd be making sure before jumping in.

            Further, I'd have to ask what value a site would have if the content was simply content taken from other, larger sites.

            You asked for advice by posting here. No guarantee you'll like the answers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketaire
    Originally Posted by adribabe View Post

    I'm not sure if this is "duplicate" content or if there's another term for it, but I will be copying content from other sites.

    I'm adding a job board listings relevant to my industry to my website.

    Obviously I'm not going to re-write 100s of job descriptions from various sites for companies that are hiring in the industry. The text will be unchanged.

    I'm not trying to generate organic traffic, but simply to offer a free new and unique service to visitors.

    My concerns are:

    Will having so much duplicate content on my website make my current organic traffic suffer?

    How do I handle so much duplicate content? no-index every page, or ?

    Please advise?

    Thanks in advance
    You will more than likely see Google ignoring some of the duplicated pages for indexing. I've ran a few different similarly structured projects for companies in the past and this was the case. (Google's Matt Cutts: Duplicate Content Won't Hurt You, Unless It Is Spammy)

    Recency and authority also play an undefined role in this process, however. Bottom line: don't rely solely on organic traffic to scale if you're taking this approach.

    Hope this helps,

    BP
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