blockquotes and duplicate content

blockquotes negating duplicate content

[Triky_woo]

I write a blog, and many of the articles I write include large clumps of text from other news sites in a blockquote. Will search engines register that as duplicate content? Should I just use a simple link instead?

[Triky_woo]

anyone have any ideas?

[caveman]

There is no set answer to your question. Think of it as a sort of sliding scale. The more content you copy from other sites, the greater the chance that your pages/site will be supressed in the rankings. And methods/implementations seem to vary rather dramatically from one SE to the next. In some respects, G is the most forgiving, if the site demonstrates overall high levels of quality on most measures.

The general rule of thumb most sites tend to follow, if they are not trying to rip others off, is to grab three or four lines of text, and include a link to the original page. That is clearly acceptable in most cases and according to most established norms.

Even then though, if the majority of one's content were still mainly snippets from other sites, I dunno how well that would go over with the SE's (never tried anything like that).

Basically, the SE's want to reward sites with lots of unique, original content, so if your site has a lot of that, in response to the articles you're linking to, then you'd be fine. If not, probably less than fine.

My 2 cents. :)