How To Copy My Forum Content Properly?

Worried about Google's duplicate penalty filter

[androidtech]

I have a forum as part of my web site. Frequently on the forum, I or someone else gives a really nice technical answer to someone's question.

I would like to duplicate the content in an organized directory of common technical questions on my site. But I am afraid of triggering Google's duplicate content filter/penalty.

Is there a good way to copy content around on my own site, without Google penalizing the pages?

Thanks.

[FrogOfPower]

I think the duplicate content filter works on a percentage so you'll probably be alright if you're just copying a few of the most helpful tips. Otherwise you could reword their answers or hide the content from the enegines in frames or the like.

[vordmeister]

I do the same thing - forums are an excellent source of ideas/information.

I take the view (and I may be wrong) that if big G finds duplicate content it won't show some of the duplicate pages. The idea is that it doesn't want to flood serps with the same content over and over again.

G will show the forum or your new page. I can't imagine it would ban the whole site just because you have made some useful information more readily available to your visitors. That's a good and useful thing to do, and you should be doing it.