Hi, I would like to add a page on my site that will have display free articles I get from sites like Amazines, Article Alley, Article City ...etc that is related to the subject of my site. Will this affect my page ranking / position on google listing? I understand that if google detects duplicate content, it will penalize the site.
From what I understand, it's not so much a penalty applied to the site as a whole as it is a potential preference given to wherever the content first appeared. If you don't mind some extra work, just do a summary of the article and include it either before or after the article text.
A good idea will be to put these articles on a subdomain. This way you can avoid any penalities that you think your site might have to face. Also, as stephfoster mentioned, you can add some unique content around the articles to avoid any penalties.
I have similar question. When I write new article. And I post him to free article sites, and I have it also on my pages. It is possible that it will be recognized like a duplicate content. It looks like that I must deploy article on my web, and when it will be indexed submit it to article dirs. Or make decision, my site or article dirs.