You're busy with many works, you don't have time to write many niches, so you have to copy many articles from other websites or blogs. So what is legal way to do that? How to hide Google's eyes with duplicate content? Help me, please!
There is no "legal" way to copy someone else's work without their consent. Hiding the copying from Google is a completely separate issue (and probably fruitless to attempt).
I posted a new thread today, and I think it would be good to ask on this thread as well (sorry for taking away from the originator's thread!). I was told from my employer that I would be writing for him anymore, as well he put a stop-payment on my incoming check. Even more, he demands that I repay him for whatever money($192.00) that he has paid me so far... as well as an apology email. Before I continue with my purpose, here was my job: I was an independent contractor, and never signed any contracts whatsoever. In regard to my tasks, I wrote for this company, which I would create 400-600 word articles that were a 'rewrite' from a list of other website's articles. What I would do is take those articles with similar topics, or a whole article, and use the information from these within the articles that I submitted to my employer. I thought that these articles were for information purposes only, and not to be used as a final copy... for any good company would have editors, right? Anyways, what my employer told me was that I copy/pasted work that they were to give to their clients, and that I was stealing his money. ...I have been shaken up pretty good, being this is a first time experience in this situation. However, I do not believe that what I did was wrong. I did not put quotes around my work, but I did supply the articles that I sent to my employer with links to the article in reference. As well, how was I to control what happened to my work after it left my hands? Nonetheless, I sent him an 'apology' email, but he then stated that he is contacting his attorney, and said that what I did was stole content, and resold it. ...I am not dumb, I know what plagiarism is, and if I would have known that I would be having an someone get their attorney on me, I would have written the articles out completely myself, or at least quoted the articles. Anyways, any help you can give me I'd love it! You can check out my thread as well. Now, as for vnttn, the only way to protect yourself from copyright is to have quotations, and cite the source. Other than that, not much else you can do besides write you own articles.
Google's duplicate content penalty just means that Google won't index a particular page if the same content has already has been indexed on another site. So you could add a "no index" meta tag to the page, but that is unnecessary. As for the legal issue of copying articles, that relates to copyright law (a much bigger and more complex issue than search engine optimization), not Google.
Thanks P.G. ...I have been searching throughout D.P.'s forums for help, but I have yet to find anything just yet. I have talked to some friends that are lawyers themselves, and they say that I am absolutely fine, but I'd want to here the publics opinion.
Sure there are legal ways to do that. You could get permission directly from the authors to reprint their articles. You could reprint articles from Ezine Articles (following their terms of service, of course). You could reprint articles that are explicitly in the public domain. If you want non-duplicate content, you could hire someone to write articles for you. What is not legal is scraping content without permission.
Thanks for your own answer! For Google's duplicate content problem, I know that if my site has two articles with the same content, Google will not index one of the two. However, I wonder whether Google will decrease my ranking if he finds other same content in other blogs or website? For copyright law problem, I copy many good articles from other websites or blogs and place source/ cite with the following form: Source: Author(s) Name - Website Name Is it OK? Please help me! Thank you very much!
You cannot use content you did not create unless you have permission to do so. Giving credit to the author or website does not make it legal unless it expressly states those are the terms of use.