Is it ok for sites to republish your articles?

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Hey I just got an email which reads:

I am emailing to request permission to publish your articles on our site? I will ensure that you and (mysite.com) will be published as the author.

So, should I say yay or nay?

Would this harm us in anyway? like, is this type of stuff legal in Google's books?

There's nothing stopping anyone from doing this without the site owner's permission anyway.

Nonetheless, a bit of insight on this would be much appreciated.

Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author BlueBridge
    I think it depends on the metrics of the site and the advantage it gives your site. As long as they will link back to you, and they give your link a dofollow, and the content is relevant to your niche, I will say why not.
    Some will use your content as theirs and never link back to you or anything, what would you do to that. I'll say its a good one.
    Its my opinion.
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    • Profile picture of the author MLMBarracks
      There's nothing you can do, call them a cheapskate I suppose. I beleive that there are auto-blogs that scrape rss feeds and post other blogs articles.

      I think that Google knows who the original author is anyway, so you should be safe as far as duplicate content goes.

      Anyway, I just replied to the dude and gave him a yay.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by MLMBarracks View Post

    is this type of stuff legal in Google's books?
    Yes - it's called "content syndication". (It's what many of the world's leading news and sports websites do, every day of the week, taking their content from Reuters, Associated Press, and other sources.)

    There's no SEO disadvantage from it.

    What you describe is also the underlying basis of "article marketing", in which traffic is generated by publishing content on your own site first, and then having it re-published (unedited/unamended) as widely as possible on other relevant sites.

    The site that first publishes the content is (naturally enough) accredited with some "authority" by Google, as being the site from which content has been syndicated. (That's part of the reason why article marketers can end up ranking so highly in Google's SERP's for so many keywords - not that that's the main purpose of article marketing, at all.)

    Don't let anyone tell you that this would be "duplicate content": it isn't, at all. Not from your perspective, and not from his, either.


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