Will this trigger the duplicate content trigger

I'm currently building a website and it has a section called articles, can I use articles from, articlecity, ezinearticles, etc... without having to worry about the duplicate content filter?

I'm building a dynamic page, so the footer, header, menu are totally different from these article sites from which i got the articles in the first place. Will it still trigger the duplicate content filter?

Greetz

Smetten

 

it's quite likely you'll trip up triggers, yes. but there's no way to tell for sure.

for example, plenty of sites use dmoz and wikipedia data and rank fine. however, plenty more (the far majority, probably) never rank at all.

beyond worrying about how google will treat this I'd definitely look into the copyright/left status of the individual sites you plan on, uh, borrowing articles from as well.

 

I just did a google search for a section of text from an article that was submitted to my directory and it brought up 136 different pages with no problems (The first three all had PR too (I didn't check the rest)

http://www.google.ie/search?sourcei...mitting+articles,+you+need+a+solid+workhorse"

I do think that once you change the design enough then google understands that content will be posted in lots of different places at the same time..

 

obviously though, there's no way to tell how many sites with those articles AREN'T ranking

 

I do not believe you will receive a penalty for using articles from article sites. Many people do this, including myself, without any problems. This also happens all the time with press releases. Any site that posts a press release or news article on its site is usually posting something that is already posted in many places. There is nothing wrong with doing this and of course sites like CNN.com do not have many problems with being delisted from google.

In terms of the copyright laws, of course you can use the content. That is the whole purpose of these article sites.

 

As has been said, I think SE's (G specifically) take into account full page source of the content to some degree so as long as your 'site' is unique republishing articles with permission wouldn't appear to be of harm.

Case in point, just last night I used G in looking for an answer to a question about the Smarty template engine, regardless of how I worded my search over and over, the first 3 pages of results every time was for sites that have the online Smarty manual republished.

Same content but on dozens of popular (and unique) sites... My guess is that SE's are looking for mirrors more than anything else when it comes to duplicate content.

Just my guess and opinion though,
Scott

 

I doubt you will trip any kind of "negative impact" dup content filter. What will happen is those articles will be indexed in Google in the suplemental index.