Fears of Republishing my Content

Republishing my content / Duplicate Content?

[remilon]

I apologize if there is another similar post on this board.

A website that seems fairly legit wants to republish an article from my site, give credit to me for the article, and show my website name under the article heading.

Most of the time I just offer a link to my site but they would like to republish the article.

I am a little fearful that it may be seen as duplicate content to search engines and I could get in trouble. I imagine this happens all the time though. I have just never come across this situation as of yet.

Does anyone have any sound advice? Much appreciated.

[proboscis]

I think it's okay, I've read that if you published it first than the search engines just will ignore other copies. I don't think duplicate content is penalized I think it is just ignored. Also, it might depend on if you were going to do this with one article or as an ongoing thing with your whole site...

Maybe you should give them the article so you can get the link and then rewrite a better one for your own site.?

[stapel]

I would ask the other site to link, rather than republish. They can still provide their own review, if they like.

But duplicate-content penalties can be a real problem, especially if the other site is given priority in the search engines. You may find your original article to be the one "dinged" (and removed) as being the duplicate.

Eliz.

[remilon]

Thank you for your replies.
I will definitely keep researching.

Is there anyone else out there as well that has sound advice?

[walkman]

if there way to limit them from posting, say only 100 or so words and then link to you, that would be great.

[steve_a]

Yes, if they have higher PR, they could zap your article (no penalties, just your article would not show up). But on the positive side, now a high PR page is sending you PR juice :)

How about asking them to put it as part of a page with a of other text. That way, it does not look like duplicate, or have someone ghostwriter (or yourself).

[clawler]

Is it possible for them to display the article in JPG format?

[commanderW]

Hey - If you yahoo for Aristotle, Swift. or any other writer in public domain, you will find a long long list of sites all w/ this "duplicate content' listed one after another. This is just my opinion ( no real knowledge of SEO), but i can't believe that the kind of simple text your talking about can get penalized. I say, don't worry about abstract technical matters. Get your name out there! Make it easy for the people who want to publicize you too!

[Syzygy]

Let them republish your article - it's very good publicity for you and your site as you'll be seen as an authority source. Don't let fears about alleged "duplicate content penalties" worry you in the slightest!

Syzygy

[edited by: Syzygy at 9:50 am (utc) on Sep. 4, 2006]

[remilon]

Thanks for all your help everyone!