Hello, I found some sites out there that offer free content to use as long as you use the link back to there site as the original source, and the Author name as well. Will using these free content sites hurt your seo ranking, or my site in any way? Thanks for your time,
Duplicate content issues, linking to bad neighborhood issues (unless nofollow'd)... And.. Your content sucks for your human visitors.
If you copy and paste the whole article.. then Google may consider it as duplicate content and ban that site. Instead, copy first few sentences and provide the link to the original source.