Would it help from an SEO perspective to get a syndicated blog on our site. What I mean to ask is, if we get permission to have a blogger (who writes his own blog), to syndicate their content to our blog – does it help or hurt from an SEO point of view.
I think this is good, google will crawl your site much more often because of the freshness of content provided by the blog.
It sounds like you are asking if you use content from another blog through RSS feed. I think SEO wise your content will treated like duplicate content. If you asking about attaching a blog to a static website to boost SEO and my answer is yes. Blogs do get crawled more frequently and not only from G but from many other authority social sites like Technorati. Plus you would funnel traffic from your blog to your static website.
I have another SEO blog RSS feed on my own blog, and it seems to work ok. Insince the only real content on your website would be a list of post titles, I doubt that duplicate content would be a problem. I would just be certain that the blog titles have good keywords in them that are relevant to your site, and if the blogger posts often it would be a great way for you to have fresh content all the time. Cheers Lynny
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This will be considered as duplicate content in the eyes of search engines, however it also depends on which web page will get crawled first if your pulling the content instantly; which can create an issue with both sites. Your better off writing your own unique quality rich content.
It's not necessarily duplicate content, depends on your site's structure, the same text on a different page is not always duplicate content in a bad way (penalized by google). The easy proof: All big news sites rely on agencies delivering the news and they rank very well with exactly the same text. Why not use excerpts from the blog(s) and link them to the full article.
Good example. My site has 5750 articles on it and Google's site: search reveals 8240 pages on my website! Only about half of the articles on my site where published on my site first, and yet I get great traffic from Google. According to SeoDigger.com, I have better than 950 keyword phrases in the top20 results in Google. According to my site stats, I received 11,000 clicks from Google just last month (May 08). Every time I hear someone suggest that Google will penalize someone for duplicate content if they use reprint articles, I have to ask some very interesting question: "Am I getting special treatment from Google?" "Do duplicate content rules only apply to everyone else?" "Is Google seeing me as the resource, even if I don't have first run on many articles?" "If I am not getting special treatment, then what is the truth about Duplicate Content?" "What is the real truth about Duplicate Content, especially if it is not what everyone describes it to be?"