Can I use duplicate content from ezines?

I think you should write fresh content. If you do want to use free articles from ezines, I would reword it to make it look like you wrote it. I have done that on one of my adsense sites and it works. As far as being penalized for it, I dont think so if its unique and you have changed the sentence structure.

Duplicating contents is of no use. You can used the same contents but, have to make sure that the contents doesn't look same. You have to change the sentence structure and try. It will definitely work

There has been a lot of debate over the years about the dup content
penalty. This only refers to content on the same site, not the same
articles on multiple sites. The penalty from Google is that subsequent
copies of the same article on the same site don't rank very well, if at all.

WRT editing articles from article sites. DON'T DO IT. You'll be in breach
of the T&C of the site you copied the articles from, and you could get
closed down by your host if the author complains to them. If you want
to make them unique, which IS a good idea, why not write an intro and
an outro for each article? This will also be a lot faster than rewriting
the articles 'illegally'.

HTH

Glenn

Best thing you could do is rewrite the articles. Treat them like PLR - they may be good source of infos but you absolutely need to rewrite them in order to avoid the Google slap.

Another good idea is to simply read the articles and pick up the actually useful parts and then write a few articles that only has the quality info from all the other articles, would do well with any readers to make them come back/subscribe etc.

Some of these replies are tantamount to telling you to go stick up a liquor store, while others incorrectly report that reprinting articles from directories should never be done.

Folks, the whole reason article directories exist is so you can take those articles and publish them for content! If you couldn't do that there would be no point to article directories.

Five original articles plus a handful of reprinted ones from directories sounds like a nice little info-site to me. You'll get credit for the five pages of original content and rank accordingly. The reprinted articles will affect your rankings as if they weren't there.

At least that's the way it is supposed to be. The reality is, however, that I have about 10 little info-sites like this in small niches and the ones with all original content rank well while the ones with a few pages of original content plus some reprinted articles are buried in the SERPs.

I don't use a lot of EZA content, but when I do (keeping bio box intact) I like to introduce the article with 100 to 300 words or my own. Also conclude the page with another 100 or so words of my own.

Here's a little tip and a "twist" on an idea to get some Excellent non-duplicate content, if that is your concern...

Search out particular niche newsletters for Quality information. Surprisingly, there's still lots of "invisible" online/offline content out there if you're willing to spend the time looking!

Keep in mind that many niche newsletter publications do Not publish their content on their websites for a variety of reasons But many are more than open/happy for joint venture type arrangements that can make a win-win money making venture for all parties involved. All it takes is a little brainstorming & some creative thinking... Most smart business professionals love self promotion & recognition and many have loads of stored away invisible content.

Quick example, bartering their sig file in exchange for Free content with the Advertising network revenues into your pockets... Ok maybe just a little into their pockets too...
Top U.S. Ad Networks, August 2008 - ClickZ

Dave

Hi Everyone-

Thanks for the input. To clarify, I was intending on using the articles intact, just like that site does. I just want lots of content so I will have something to offer other than adsense links.

From post #7
Glenn wrote
"WRT editing articles from article sites. DON'T DO IT. You'll be in breach
of the T&C of the site you copied the articles from, and you could get
closed down by your host if the author complains to them."

What is WRT?

Many Thanks!
Ann

Good thoughts guys & gals ...

My 2c worth is this ... rewriting articles can take a lot longer than writing new articles, because you have to think about how to make it different enough ... whereas writing new articles you can type as fast as you can think and the ideas flow much quicker ... this is my experience from trying to rewrite my own articles, now I just write new ones.

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The great duplicate content myth! *cough*

I wouldn't advise duplicating someone else's work, even if you "change the words" around a bit. Not just because you wouldn't get much response from search engines, but because if you're not careful you could get into a lot of trouble. Fresh content is always better. If you're not a writer, get some professional help.

Personal it's up to the online god "Google" if they see your lilttle less than 10,000 page site with articles on it as gooble-gook i.e spamdexing.

With a few niche sites I have tested this and when I put together a collection of niche focused sites using ezine,goarticle or whomever "content" my adsense income has only increased.

Of course I did add inbound-links and other traffic generating seo top secret no one else on the planet knows but me "go figure" seo magic star dust :-)

Amazingly those test site just come of as a "hey instead of wasting your life online finding info about ___, let me do it and organize the ___ content here." than spammy.

To me if you provide value:

1. Save someone time (Why do people pay for ebooks when most info is free online if you take the time to digg).

2. Help someone solve and issue.

3. Teach someone how to ______.

Based on the amount of value or more accurately the amount of perceived value don't expect to make a million per site. I have tons of sites and only now is adsense increased enough for me to be able to focus on making "real money", I was stubborn enough to make it work to the level I wrote on paper.

While content is " a killer" traffic ends up being the bullet, hope you make a killing. Learn while you earn and test whatever others tell you online even me, ---> especially me :-)

Strange discussion here. We are all submitting articles like nuts to get traffic and backlinks. The only reason why this works is because other people publish our articles. On the other hand you say it's nonsense to publish other peoples articles on your site? It's the same thing just the other way round.

Gunter