Duplicate content problem?

Reviews from other sites yet gives credit to other site?

[johnblack]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking at buying a website about widgets. The site has little traffic but a bit of content.

However the content is official reviews of widgets by the specific widget manufacturer. The content of this review is available on the manufacturer's website. All the current owner of the website has done is put a large number of widget manufacturer's reviews in one location. The site gives credit to the original source of the review.

If I attempted to optimise the site (assuming I bought it), would I be beating my head against a brick wall as Google would give it a dup content penalty?

Cheers JB

[annej]

In my experience it doesn't matter if there is credit given or not. The bot doesn't know the difference.

[Evis]

johnblack, Giving Credit to original source of information is a good practice in certain situations where the information is quite unique and very authentic. But if the content is purely copied from the original source and nothing is new in the website in terms of Content..then you won't be succeed in your aim.

For Content Duplication Issue..Do we have seen many websites penalize because of duplicate content (I guess Duplicate content filter is there for webmasters who just create websites, copied the content from somewhere only because of Adsense Revenue)? A good practice is to just modify the content, put your thoughts into it (keeping in mind it won't affect the theme of the information)..and then you can give a credit of original source. That will be my suggestion to you. Content Presentation is also very important.

[annej]

I didn't mean to imply that you shouldn't give credit to original sources. But just that Google will still see it as duplicate copy. That's why I no longer give permission to other sites use one of my articles.