Can using RSS feeds for content cause ban/blacklist/sandbox?

[dcabbar]

Hi All,

I am thinking about opening a site which will display content (as-is) from a selected list of RSS feeds. Basically, the idea is to have our editors pick the best items from some 100+ feeds, and create the "news summary / best of the news of the day" type of page every day.

However, since content is coming from various RSS feeds, I was wondering whether google might punish (ban/blacklist/sandbox/etc) us for displaying duplicate content? If this is a possibility, is there anything we can do to avoid this?

Thanks in advance...

[tedster]

The key will be if you ONLY have others content. If so, you will probably have a lot of trouble not being filtered out as duplicate. You may have a solid idea here, but you will need to be clearly proving a unique service, or else you will probably not do well in organic search.

If you are using human editors to make the story selections anyway, you might have them write a few sentence of commentary about why the story is important.