Double posting question

[GiveMeMore]

I am the owner of a small site about a niche and trying to make my way thru popularity and adsense, I have been contacted by an owner of another site in the same who is saying that he likes my posts and wants to post them on his site with full credits.

We both have the same PR and we both have new sites
I don't know if this will hurt my site I am hesitating since it might also drive in some traffic.

any advice?

thanks

[tedster]

If "full credits" means a backlink, I say go for it, as long as Google already has indexed the version on your domain.

[GiveMeMore]

yes full credits does indeed mean back link to each article of my site.

as I said before we have both the same PR, my traffic ranking is slightly better, however neither of us is already indexed by google, we are still suffering the "Sandbox" effect

[tedster]

we have both the same PR, my traffic ranking is slightly better, however neither of us is already indexed by google

That's very confusing sentence to me. How can you have PR if Google hasn't indexed you? And what do you me by "traffic ranking" -- Alexa?

"Sandbox Effect" means your URLs are not ranking on Google for competitive searches. If your URLs are not even in the index, then disregard my earlier green light. Google needs to see that your domain is the original publisher, or you may be the one filtered out of the results for those topics.

I think you should get indexed first before you start spreading your original content around on other domains.

[StickyNote]

Tedster, a question please on your first response.

If I have original, indexed content, and a more 'trusted' source copys it on a new page, is it relatively safe to assume my page will be chosen by Google as the original.

If so, would it be a waste of time to go after junk sights that copy your content?

[tedster]

I cannot pretend to have the definitive word on this. In fact, I can't think of any recent scenario with one the sites I work with, where a "more trusted site" printed a copy of the content. If it happened (and given the mount of bot activitiy and scraping I see, I assume it did) it still didn't make much of an effect on my site in the long run.

I believe Google's intent (and other engine's too) is to honor and reward the original -- but how well that works in practice I can't be sure.

I also have not seen much real damage to traffic from junk sites stealing content. On the rare occasion that I might, I would jump on them with every weapon I can find in the arsenal - C&D, DMCA, spam report, ISP report, etc.

My experience, such as it is, is aligned with your assumptions. I work mostly with strong corporate brand sites these days. If your site is just building brand and trust, then the plagiarism infighting might be a bit tougher. Reports around here seem to indicate that it has been for some.

Mostly, this is a reflection of my own personal style, I think. Even in highly competitive situations I tend to focus energy on doing the best I can, rather than putting a lot of resources into noticing and responding to what the other guy is up to. Every minute spent in defensive action is a minute not spent in improving my own site/product/service.

[StickyNote]

Thank you for your answer Tedster.

I have had a few junk sites steal content. They have been very-junk sites that did not seem worth the resources and time to go after.

[GiveMeMore]

That's very confusing sentence to me. How can you have PR if Google hasn't indexed you? And what do you me by "traffic ranking" -- Alexa?

Exactly we both have a PR of zero since non of us has already been indexed by google.

and traffic ranking is by alexa true

let me ask yet another question, does slightly modifying the text do any good?

I was thinking of re-writing the articles for the other site but just modifying some sentence structures