Similiar content rules?

[mrtwister]

Hi I want to build multiple sites on a specific topic and I was concerned about getting google angry because I'd want to use the same articles for some of them.. any ideas?

thanks

[loganz]

they have guidelines that state not to make duplicate sites. im sure if you use a small amount of duplicate articles it'll be fine.

[lammert]

Reusing the same content doesn't give problems with AdSense in most situations. There are many sites around that scrape content from other sites without permission and have AdSense on it.

You should however be aware of the effects of duplicate contents in the Google search engine. Having duplicate content may decrease your rankings in a significant way, which causes less visitors and therefore also less AdSense income.