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The above is for writers that are doing it for free, but i am also paying some writers to write for me, how can i tell that they havent just copied the content from somewhere else? i have seen copyscape, but that is the opposite of what i am after, i want to know BEFORE i publish something, if it is original or not.
Final question.... my content has a limited lifespan, an example of this would be a preview of an article on a sporting event that starts this weekend, once the competition has finished i will remove the article. Presuming this article has been indexed by the big 3 search engines, what now will happen to those indexed pages? I have a redirect so that if you find a page from the search engines that doesnt exist anymore, then it simply forwards you to our main page. But lets say i write an article on "Widgets" and google indexes the article and the page and ranks it numer 5 for the term "widgets", then i remove the article from the site, the users of the search engines wotn find the article, but they will find our site :) but what will google do about such articles? will it check back at a later date and see if the article is still there? or will it no longer be able to find the article due to the fact that there will be no links to it anymore?
Many thanks.
The penalties, as far as the search engines are concerened, is that the search engines want to eliminate duplcate material from their index.
The missing files issue is not a good idea. It's best you retain the information as long as possible. If I find files no longer exist in a search engine I usually ignore that site in future. Or a link to an archive section of your site. Alternatively, why not make it non-indexable in the first place?
