Will syndicated content drop my site from Google?

Risks and benefits for linking back to our site.

[Whitey]

We're looking to syndicate articles, and community driven posts with links embedded in the content back to our site.

I see some scenarios:

1. For the articles, non of the original content would reside on our site.
2. or for the articles / posts , the original content would reside on our site.

Will Google drop our site in these circumstances with a duplicate content filter being applied?

[tedster]

Duplicate content filtering is hard to predict right now. You certainly might see your own URLs filtered out when you syndicate the same content that you are publishing. But then again, "It Ain't Necessarily So."

My own taste would be not to syndicate articles that I also publish -- and especially not in full. I think duplicate content filtering at Google is a crapshoot, and it's likely to change again and again in the future. Can you trust all the re-publishers to give you the link back? I've heard that seems to be a big help. Without the link back, you're essentially offering a scraper's edge to sites that aren't even scrapers, but may be strong enough to whomp you.