Because my sites are heavily internally linked, adding pages has the residual effect of adding links. The do this, I will occasionally publish other people's articles to add content (with their permission of course). I know it is duplicate content but I'm not doing it to get SE hits on the page anyway. And, it may be helpful information for readers of my site. This gets to my real question...I have been using the KW rich and relevant anchor text to link to other pages on my site. Does this count as altering the content? I haven't changed any of the text itself. Seems like a golden opportunity to easily add great internal text links. I welcome your thoughts.
I like the way you think rbucich Personally, I don't view this as altering the content. I think if you get contacted by any of the authors you obviously change it but otherwise, simply linking from within their articles isn't changing the article, isn't depriving them of credit (and most importantly for the article syndicators), you are maintaining their link back.
It sure creates a great incentive to add relevant copyrighted content. Some have argued that dup content will penalize you. I happen to be in the camp that disagrees.
Google's dup content filter is very specific from what I have seen. There are certain data sources google has deemed as holy and if you copy them (even if it is legal to do so) then you're page is marked as irrelevant and dropped. They also seem to clean house every couple of months on a broader range (but still relatively narrow) of content sources. But, for the most part, if you are talking about an article appearing only once per domain on hundreds of independent sites, their dup filter isn't going to go off and the most respected (for lack of a better word/phrase for oldest, with most PR and least penalties) will show at the top of the SERPs.
I think Lots0 recently said on ThreadWatch that many duplicate content filters are reverse index based. http://www.threadwatch.org/node/3334#comment-20469
Duplicate content detection has nothing to do with the inverted index (inverted index is the correct term, not reverse index).
Many people use automated programs to set anchor text within a syndicated article. As a whole, there is no problem with this and most major Article Distribution sites would not consider it against their TOS. I have no problem with it on my distribution site. The only case where this can become an issue is if you were using it to link out to sites that could be damaging if people assumed they belonged to the author. This would go for any non-family friendly affiliate sites. As long as you have a willingness to take down links at the request of the Author (make sure your contact us form is one click away), then you shouldn't have any issues.
Thanks for the feedback. I think my process of heavy internal text linking of my site greatly benefits the author as well since I am using IB text links as well to the article. An example being an article that provides advice to home buyers. A a Realtor, there would be many combinations of those or similar words on the site that I can link from. By adding navigation to the page, theoretically the page could achieve a relatively high PR on internal links alone. I have article pages on my site that have achieved PR3 by doing that alone. It's seems to be a win win situation.
I would not add more than 2 links to each of these articles, Too many links on the text can be bad, specially for users.