Duplicate content question

I've got an article from an affiliate I want to publish on my site and use for a keyword page. This article would be in only two places - the affiliate's site and my site. Is that enough to get dinged for duplicate content? Also if I do get dinged, would it affect just that page or my whole site?

 

In my opinion it shouldn't be considered duplicated content as long as it is quoted and the link to the original text is provided also.

 

To avoid duplicate content add a link to the original article.

 

Unless you substantially change the wording, it is going to be considered duplicate content.

 

It'll probably be considered duplicate content unless you rewrite the articles well enough. You should probably try a duplicate content checker once you've rewritten it.

 

I would defeinetly rewrite it and make it VERY different, I mean more than just shifting the paragraphs around.

 

It is duplicate content if you places the same article on different site. You must change the wording and the title of the article. I suggest that you post the original article.

 

hmm..... does that mean that all the article submission services are not good since they will be submitting the same article to all the directories?

 

same question i have to ask^^^

 

It will obviously be considered as duplicate content as it won't be unique in either of the sites but if you change it a little bit in your own style keeping the keywords in mind then that will help you. Test your editing skills and make the changes without changing the meaning of it and it will be alright.

 

It would be better if you just include a small portion of the content from the affiliate site and NOT the entire content.

Having little content from other site will not have you flagged for DC panelty.

Besides you will NOT benefit anything out of the content as I have few articles from an author put on my site and first they do not have any PR even after 3-4 PR updates (rest of site got PR quickly) and they do not come up in search results.

Moreover you will surely pass on the seo benefits (credit/back-link etc) to the orginal website. So why the efforts?

 

This practice may be flagged as dup content. The older text will be judged the originator.

 

I've read if you change around 30% of the content it may be considered unique, so if you're really worried about duplicate content then you should change it around.

 

This question really needs answer from an expert.
I say expert who has practical knowledge....

 

If it's found on the affiliate's site, doesn't it mean other affiliates use it too?

 

hmm.... not sure abt this. Don't believe that somebody actually went to measure how much of his article is changed and then determined if it was still unique. How do you do measure that in the first place?? And how do you determine if the SE still regarded it as unique? Sorry, unless these words came from the SE, i'm an unbeliever....

 

I was wondering if I take bits and pieces from an article, like a section here and a section there, will this be considered duplicate content?

 

yes it is considered as duplicate contents. Try to rephrase the other contents and make it unique in order that it will not be duplicate. For sure it will be in supplemental results....