I am wondering - how about making a site using other site's content? Take for instance, Wikipedia, the "free encyclopedia". Their content may be fully copied if some rules are applied. An example would be www.answers.com - they practically duplicate the free of charge the content of Wikiopedia and other sources, while adding their own adds. My question is: how successful can a site like this be? On this forum, everyone agrees that the unique and original content attracts the visitors and is an important factor of success. I do too, I've seen and done it several times, yet there are these sites based on Wikipedia... and they seem to be doing pretty well... Any insights?
I wouldn't try it. Making your own, unique content is far more worthwhile. Even if dup content filters haven't caught everything now, there will come a time in the future when the pages will be tossed out of the index. It's much better to spend your time pursuing something that can bring you long term results.
Youl'l get killed for duplicate content. It's not quite as saturated as AWS, but it's pretty saturated (more than you'd think).
It is not a good ideas for duplicate content,however you can use duplicate content when you do not know how to write some,it is better than being fleered
Guess you can read it, digest the information and write it on your own words to avoid duplicate content.
Unique content will take you much further then the same stuff republished. It's been done... branch out.