Hi, I had licensed some content to a strong PR9 site. The contract is over, and shortly they will pull down the content. I am now allowed to use that content on my own site. But, it might still be a few months before they remove the content from their site (the actual date is indeterminate, but quite likely to be 3 months). I feel that if I post the content today, it will quite likely be seen as duplicate. And Google's aggresive canonicalisation algorithm will display the other site in SERPs. The question is : Should I go ahead and publish those articles (1000+) and hope that once the original content is pulled down, I would rise from the duplicate content filter. OR should I just wait till the content is pulled down, and removed from the SERPS, so that I never get branded as duplicate content? Thanks for your help. Ajeet
See.the template, and page coding, and ads and other stuff would change dramatically. But, I have spent a few years writing these articles, and do not want to change them if possible.
It depends on what you're willing to risk. Being branded for duplicate content for a few months, or waiting until they pull the content. It sounds like you've survived so far w/o the content, so, without knowing your whole situation, I would suggest to wait. IMHO.
I would make sure that it is not visible in their cache first. I google has it in its cache and you post it then it will assume its duplicate instantly I guess. I would hold on. Let it be deleted (ask them if they will request google to remove the urls, robots.txt to speed up the process). Whats the point in having the articles up if they are not going to rank anyway ?