Alot of Content = More results in google?

Posting alot of Articles & Information result in more hits

[floridadesigns]

I have wrote a number of different articles on different topics relating to my business (internet development)

Some of these articles have resulted in alot of hits to those articles. My question is, would going out and collecting all different articles, and posting them (of course with the proper citations & credit to author).

Would this really work that well?

[ariff44]

yes...bc most articles are full of keywords and if you optimize the page with the right title, it should add some great content to your site

[albert]

Hello floridadesigns,

it's exactly as the title of your topic. And follow ariff's hint.

And try to gather some links to your articles containing those keywords ...

[DVDBurning]

Maybe I misunderstand your question, but you can't just go out and collect other author's articles, even if you give them credit for the article. This would be a violation of their copyright. You have to get their permission to post their article.

Quoting small passages of someone elses' article with proper credit would be "fair use", but not quoting the whole article.

The exception to this would be for non-copyrighted (public domain) works. This would be things like government produced documents placed into the public domain, or works where the copyright has expired (Shakespeare, for instance).

Yes, the more good content you have, the more the search engines have to index, and the more likely others are to like your website and link to it. Both of these effects mean that more good content leads to higher search engine rankings... all things being equal.

[ajsinclair]

It probably wouldn't even be "fair use", because your purpose is commercial and not much else. It's a tricky analysis though (17 U.S.C. 107 is the relevant statute). It might be "fairly likely that no one will care" if you just take little snips. It would almost certainly be a copyright violation to reproduce the entire articles though, even with credit.

Of course, it might not be hard at all to get permission. Someone paid me to put his content on my site. It's sort of an advertisement in disguise (not well disguised), but it's useful to my audience and I get a lot of Google refs to those pages.

[PatrickDeese]

I generally find that people "cite" my content on a rather frequent basis, although usually it is my photography that is taken.

I have found my written content published word-for-word (usually just copy/pasted HTML code) on a semi-regular basis.

It doesn't please me to find it and I generally make my displeasure known to the guilty parties.

In the case of one unresponsive webmaster, I had to contact their ISP and lo and behold, within 24 hours it was removed.

[jady]

Yes - also be sure not to use hidden text... HINT HINT HINT...

[albert]

msg #1, first sentence:

I have wrote a number of different articles

If that is true: Whoever is able to read has a clear advantage :)

[yosmc]

...although usually it is my photography that is taken.

You must be one hell of a goodlooking fella, Patrick! :)

[vincevincevince]

just my two pence... the correct way to go about `collecting' articles is to ask permission before collecting. i have used a few articles in this way, and the only exchange was a proper citation and a link back to the original webpage, or in one case a <more...> button which took you to the original webpage after the first 3/4 paragraphs.

[Oaf357]

Here's my take:

If you could research numerous sources and write your own keyword rich article you'd be a lot better off because Google wouldn't see it as duplicant content and there wouldn't be the whole copyright issue.

I write articles for my site, they aren't drawing many hits (but the site isn't done yet either). But, I've been slowly tweaking them for keyword density and have noticed modest gains in traffic (just from freshbot updates to the SERPs aka everflux).

You have to be careful though. You could easily become an "authority" by doing this but you could also move so far off topic that it hurts your site.