Forum Moderators: martinibuster
My site is all about a forum, around 4000 members and i received many requests from the members to add news section outside the forum about the topic my forum is about.
So right now my site gives around 5 new news a day and an archive with the previous days' news. I added adsense to them (before it was just on the forum)
Is this scraping? i read the TOS and it's not against it, the news are manually added and not aromatically copy pasted from other sites. But i read many members here attacking on people who add content on their sites that belong to others
Is this scraping? i read the TOS and it's not against it, the news are manually added and not aromatically copy pasted from other sites. But i read many members here attacking on people who add content on their sites that belong to other
As long as you use your own judgment as an editor in selecting articles relevant to your site, and snip them to avoid copyright issues, I can't see how this could be called scraping.
You are right to be concerned about "aromatically" copying text. The neighbors might complain.
I wouldn't consider that to be scraping, if you run a site devoted to a certain topic, and you post news about that topic - it's no different than displaying an RSS feed from another site, as long as you are properly linking back to the originating site.
The sites that you reference, as long as they get full credit, and as long as it's just an excerpt, and it's linked to them - if anything they would be happy I'm sure, because you'd be driving traffic your way, and you might get your site mentioned on their site.
Will you get penalized by Google and other SE's because of non-original content? Perhaps. It would probably be best to write a little blurb about the news item, just a few sentences, with a very short excerpt from the originating site, and a link to the originating site.
Even if you get penalized by the SE's, your still providing a service to your customers - your collecting news in one spot for a group of people (your forum users), and while regulars aren't the ones that normally click on ads, your regulars will spread your site around, either by linking to it from their sites, or by word-of-mouth to other people interested in your topic.
