Duplicate Original Content On My Own Blog Network Sites?

No its not cool. Its duplicate content and Google will only credit one of the pages with the content ownership. Keep everything thats to do with you making money, absolutely 100% unique.

It's a network of same/similar sites that will be linked to each other so it's not a good idea to be using the same content across multiple sites in the same network.

It wouldn't really be a penalty but one of those sites/pages would probably get buried in the SERPs, or buried in Supplemental SERPs where traffic would never find the pages, nobody clicks on the last page of the search results looking at the Supplemental results. Supplemental SERPs is a catch-all for duplicate pages.

Scraping pages across a network of your own sites would most likely put one of the sites at a disadvantage & odds are Google will pick the page you want ranked least to be ranked for that duplicate content. Really it depends on which of the two sites/pages has better SEO.

IMO you would be working against yourself in the SERPs with the duplicate pages.

The smaller the network, the more pain you can feel. I know, people think smaller networks are easier to manage.. no. less your QI is like 10.

With the network being so small, don't use the same content. Just hire some write on elance for super cheap. We pay around 1-2 bucks per 600 words. If you want to make money, and build quality don't be cheap. It's not worth it in the end.

What Kevin and Yukes said. I don't know where HeadstartjesterSEO gets his information but just steer away from anybody that advocates buy cheap in one sentence then says don't buy cheap in the next.

This question is very common question and most of people will anser you as Yukon and Kev did, but I tend to disagree with their coments, most
of people will tell you: NO.

The real question here is: What are you trying to achieve?

If you want your backlinks and content to be indexed faster, then creating a syndicated network for your own content via rss fedd it is a great way to do it, your content and backlinks will be indexed faster and as consequence you will rank higher in your money making site.

If you want to use your content to "filter" the visitors to your money making site, then the answer here will be yes, do it, no matter that is the same content, if you are trying to create different sites about back pain (natural remedies, chiropractique experiences, science articles, pain killers) then it does not matter either, what you are creating is a community around a specific topic and the content will help you to keep your site fresh and to send the right type of crowd to the right part of your money making site.

If you want to use this same content to push your money making site higher on the search engines, just by syndicating the same content, then the answer is: it depends, even if it is the same content syndicated on several sites, the one that will rank higher is the one that it is indexed first, the one that has more backlinks, and the one where the people spend the most time on it/interact/share.

By no means you will be penalized.

And here is the piece of information everybody will ask for: PROOF.

Search for the word "news"

Usually CNC or CBC (depending where you are) will pop first, how can they not be penalized if they are posting the same content than the other sites are posting from the news agencies?

Focus onc reating communities of common interests, if the content it is the same than any other site it is absolutelly irrelevant, just the backlinks and the way the people interact with the site are important

@patadeperro
RSS used to work cool pat, around 2010. These days its not seen as an effective way to syndicate for links. We had 2 guys almost working full time setting up all sorts of crazy feed cross overs using yahoo pipes. Where one publishing could get sent out to thousands of sites whenever you wanted. but no more effective. Wild times are long gone my friend. Google would now eat you for that.