Does offering free content from my site trigger dupe content filters

Get you still gets links from duplicate content.

[sjrh44]

I am marketing a new site that promotes a legal team specialising in motoring law. They have provided me with an large amount of content on the law relating to drink driving, speeding, and motoring law in general. I have added this content to the site and I am waiting for it to be indexed.

Once it has been indexed I am thinking of offering this content to other motoring sites (non legal of course) in exchange for a link back. I will do this by adding a small text link at the bottom of the article.

I have seen this done a few times before and feel it would be appropriate in this instance.

However, is there any way I can ensure that the pages on their site trigger the duplicate content filter and therefore do not get indexed in Google but my link back does?

[Swanny007]

The best way to avoid any duplicate content issues is to offer only unique articles. One paragraph at the bottom being the same isn't bad, but if 20 sites post the same article there will most likely be a penalty.

Are the articles also going to be posted on the new site you're working on? If so that will not be so good. If not, then it has less of an impact.

[sjrh44]

Thanks swanny, It was a long shot I suppose.

However, if duplicate content triggers the spam filters how do press releases and other RSS content pass links to the original site?

[Swanny007]

Post it on your site first, and don't redistribute it for at least a week or so. That's how I'd do it based on what I've read. Google essentially tries to figure out who is the authority or who posted it first. If you post it and Google indexes it first, that increases your chances of ranking for it.

Again, are all these articles going to be posted to your site first?

[nealrodriguez]

i have seen this issue with sites that syndicate content on reuters and other platforms. as swanny wrote, you may want to wait until your site gets indexed, then open the article up for syndication. of course ensure that the link to the original story is clean - meaning that there is not a 'nofollow' tag attached to it; this way the link protein will be pumped back into your site, and you get the most trust numerical weighting from the se's

matt cutts discusses this issue on Duplicate Content Question [mattcutts.com]

if you do syndicate content, make sure that you include a link to the original content. That will help ensure that the original content has more PageRank, which will aid in picking the best documents in our index.