Duplicate content question

No.

It wouldn't be seen by Google as duplicate content because it wouldn't be duplicate content.

It would be either unique or syndicated content, depending on the extent to which it's rewritten. The difference (i.e. between duplicate content and syndicated content) is briefly and clearly explained here: Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog

Once the mistake of not publishing it on your own site first has been made, there's no downside to doing that. It's not worth worrying about it.

I admit I wouldn't bother rewriting it, myself. I'd just post it belatedly on my own site, and get on with the next article. But that's just me.

I concur with that on a certain degree.

On the other side, as far as quality content is concerned, I would not recommend you to buy sentence-level type of re-writes. Yes, you may re-write an existing and excellent content but don't re-write it on a sentence level. Keep the core of the story but cite different stories, scenarios, or examples. Nobody wants to read the same story over and over again.

I have articles on my site that were taken from Askmen.com and Menhealthmagazine yet my site ranks higher for those posts than their original sources. I don't actually know why it happens that way.

That is some of the sillest comments I have ever heard. When you have content that is similar to your other pages or similar to other pages on the web google just flat won't show it.... so no matter what you want to call it you are being penalized for similar content... now if the content is very similar then its duplicate content... and google will flat beat the hell out of you for it.... so wake up... google shows you over and over that he will kick your sorry but for similar or duplicate content... most of the time if google can guess who posted first he gives that site credibility and the rest is penalized... hell you see it in every google search..

To put this google similar or dupe content argument to bed try this...
Enter this in quotes into the search box "MLS#2978780"

the results come back with the following statement:
The results say 23 results and they only show 1 pge of 10 and 1 more on the next page.. and then they tell you "B_st_rds" have so darn much duplicte content I just aint' gonna show it ... however if you want to see that garbage.. click here... but I am not going to show it on my own... so take that penalty and smoke it....


In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 11 already displayed.

IF anyone has ever searched you have seen this a thousand times.... max penalty.



If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

some say that is no penalty... you got to be sh_tting me... if google won't show my page that is a maximum penality.. he might as well trash it... this happens all the time...

Your content must be at least 50% spun article in order to look unique.

You need to spin your article to 50% unique at least to prevent duplicate content. Sources = I read many SEO books and 2 of the books mention that.