I had read about how google drops page hits or whatever when you use auto publishing software from RSS feeds, and what not. I work for another site in which I copy and Paste my posts from there to my site. Will this drop my site in ranks? Will I drop hits from doing this? How do I get around this? Does changing a word or whatever get around it? Thanks.
definitely you will be penalized for this. changing a word wont help at all. you should post completely unique articles.
If you can't re-write the news to make it unique (which really shouldn't be too hard.) I would suggest putting your commentary on the top of the news and throwing a blockquote around the news (ie: <blockquote>Hi this is the news from the other website</blockquote>) and make sure you reference the original source as well. If you have original content as well and keep having unique comments in your quoted news posts from the commentary (so more than 1 line of text) AND are linking back to the source you shouldn't get penalized. At least not as badly as if every single piece of information was available word for word somewhere else because at that point why should Google want to rank you when the original source has all of the information?
Ok so in other words rewrite it as best as I can? If I can't quote and source it? I think I can manage that pretty well haha. Thank You... You the man.