Is it okay to duplicate content for another site?

[Cosmicbiker]

Hi everyone:

I recently signed up to blog at a couple of extra sites, and I'm really enjoying the variety of focus and community. However, they are similar enough that I could use, not necessarily the identical post, but a similar one, on all sites.

What's the etiquette for this sort of thing? Is it really awful to duplicate a theme across several blog sites?



Thanks -

Carol

www.CarolSetters.com

[Kevin]

copying a design over several sites wont hurt your traffic or anything like that. It's good to give blogs their own identity but if the blogs are unrelated this won't be a concern :)

also, welcome to the forums :)

Kevin

[Cosmicbiker]

Hi, Kevin:

Thanks for the welcome. I probably should have used another term than "theme". What I meant was the content - can you blog on different sites with basically the same blog post?

Carol

[mintblogger]

Try to create unique content on every blog you own. Read this article on Google Webmaster Central Blog http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/duplicate-content-due-to-scrapers.html

[Cosmicbiker]

Thanks - this is very helpful.

Carol

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[discrat]

Hi everyone:

I recently signed up to blog at a couple of extra sites, and I'm really enjoying the variety of focus and community. However, they are similar enough that I could use, not necessarily the identical post, but a similar one, on all sites.

What's the etiquette for this sort of thing? Is it really awful to duplicate a theme across several blog sites?



Thanks -

Carol

www.CarolSetters.com

Personaly I thnk its alright to get ideas from others aboout what content you might want to use on your own Blog. But to blatanly copy it and then use some software to rearrange the contents so to ltook original, well this really kills the spirit of Blogging and what it is suppose to be about.

If you cant come out with original stuff find another endeavour because Blogging is not for you. IMHO !!

[sarahG]

The OP is talking about copying their own post across a couple of blogs where they write, modifying the post slightly to suit the topic. Not ripping off other blogger's work.

Carol - it depends whether the sites you're blogging on are your own or you're one of a number of authors and you're actually blogging for someone else to provide content on their site. If they're your own blogs then it's up to you what you put on them, although remember, if you get someone reading both sites and realising one is just a virtual duplication of the other they they'll either stop reading one or both, and as mintblogger pointed out, unique content is better from an SEO point of view else you may fall under the threshold on one of the sites as a 'scraper site'.

If the sites you're blogging on are for someone else then you need to speak to the blog owner and see how they feel and where they stand. Most blog owners who run a multi author site don't want their authors writing something for them and then reproducing it on other sites, even if it's been changed slightly. It's hard to write about the same subject in two different styles/ways but if the subject isn't time dependent ie. you could write about it on blog A in one month, wait a month then rewrite the article for blog B then it'll probably be easier as you'll have more chance of writing it in a different style.

[smub]

I personally think it won't be a good idea because which blog do you want your users to go to ??? Write the post on that blog and just that blog.

[DigiKnow101]

yes it is okey but you must include there link to avoid copyrights and its better if you create your own unique content

[akira07]

Yeah, that's right. And i relate it to SEO, remember that google is hate duplicate content. The bad thing will affect to your PR site calculation if you do just copy content.

[sarahG]

PR is about links, not content. The only potential affect on PR is that if there is more than one site with the exact same content on then one will most like be dropped from the search engines, however that's the last option they take as if it was that easy, businesses would set up a duplicate site of their competitors to try and get them dropped from the search engines.

Read the thread on Google PageRank that Kevin posted up, to understand about PR. Then read up on duplicate content and understand that there isn't a penalty for it, it's just a case of one version will be considered the original and get the ranking from it, duplicate versions will most likely be much more ignored or get very little ranking.

Otherwise I could rip off everyone's content and cause them all problems with their ranking ;)

[akira07]

Ups, i forgot...!!!! I mean copy-paste content will affect bad to your site in SERP, you will be decrease your SERP position. Thanks for the correction.