Duplicate content on separate sites

Request to publish article on another site

[roodle]

Hi,

I recently received a request from an editor of a forum site, asking for permission to publish some articles from a site I manage on their site.

Since this is the equivalent to "scraping" content with permission, should I be worried about any dup content filter/penalty? The site would also have a link back to mine, so Google could easily make the connection between the 2 sites.

Any advice/experiences? Do I have anything to worry about?

All comments welcome.

[Stefan]

If the pages that hold the content on the two sites have different templates, and textual content that is not entirely the same (i.e. only 50-75% identical) then it probably won't be seen as duplicate content. You have to consider the PR in this though - if their site ranks better, they could scoop your serps for kw's that you might count on.

[roodle]

Thanks Stefan,

I'm already wondering about the benefits of this anyway. The site in question must have some decent PR somewhere as it has (according to Google, which isn't too reliable) 500,000+ pages and not a single url-only page in the first 1000 pages indexed. I checked some of the other published articles on the site with relevant keywords, and they don't appear anywhere in the SERPs, whereas the original articles do.

Might get just one published and see how it goes...