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Hi Ejovi, If it were my site, I wouldn't do this. I've seen it done on plenty of sites, but at best I don't believe it provides a good user experience, and at worst you might put yourself at risk of a panda update. If it were me, at the very least I would be writing a paragraph or two about why you're sharing the content with your visitors, and then proceed to quote and link to the original. This should avoid any issues since you're adding unique content to the page. In addition to adding at least a paragraph or two of unique content, I would also try and change the title of the page from what the original post was titled. If you're looking to partially automate this process in Wordpress, you could use a RSS -> draft post plugin of some kind, and then manually add content to each draft post as it comes in. The more you can add, the less likely it is to be viewed as duplicate or thin content. One final disclaimer - in theory this content won't perform as well for more competitive keywords. You'll usually get better results from the original content that you're producing. If your goal is to produce content that's going to perform well in search, you're better off sticking with mostly original content.

cheers for that. I read that the plugin no long is being worked on, so i will now go back to them and see if they can help me.

I have wondered what to do about expired deals. Thanks for all your help.

I see. Yes the 301s are just within my own site. Whew that makes me feel better. Ok since I said I was using Wordpress in the OP, I figured CMS meant something else. Good to know. I will check out that link, thanks!

Thanks My site is not huge about 3000 pages. We did some architecture upgrades and a bit of a design change and since then Google has hammered us! I cant see any reason for its and have been trying to find the issue and it is just taking ages to bounce back. we are also doing a content upgrade site wide and its having a slight effect but I think it may just be to little over the whole site to have an effect. my site is www.centralsaddlery.co.uk i would love to here any ideas or issues architecture wise. Its a long way of on content and the product pages could be better but we are being held back by an outdated CMS(new CMS is under construction). it just seems like all efforts are failing. if its just time and content that is the issue I can just keep working but i am worried there is a bigger problem lurking in the site architecture.

Magento 1.4 and above has native support for canonical tags but it has to be be enabled.  Goto System > Configuration >Catalog > Search Engine Optimization and enable Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories and Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products

Personally I think it's to do with the amount of time you can dedicate to each site. If the accounts are just there for the sake of it and aren't really being updated or filled with unique content then obviously it doesn't seem particularly worth it. The simple solution might be to just give it a try. If you find you have the time to update them regularly then great. Also, if you are going to add anything else I would go with Tumblr as it is easy to use and very simply updated. Its users don't expect long blog posts like Wordpress - a few sentences and maybe a pic will often do. Good luck!

If you are asking that question, I guess you are very new. I suggest you spend a while reading through SEOmoz so that you do not create a post which goes against the grain or goes nowhere

Hey, Are these sites still legit or are their any new ones that you all would suggest?

Try disallowing the user agent in your robots.txt file and pinning down the IP address of the scraper so you can deny it in your .htaccess file

Hi Andrew - You've received some great responses! Have any of them answered your question? As Dan mentioned, you can mark more than one response as a good answer

Hi Andy, do you mean that you linked your website back to your personal Google+ profile with Rel=Publisher, and successfully verified it? I'm asking because I haven't heard of this actually working, as Google states Rel=Publisher is for brands, and Rel=Author is for, well, authors. I have only seen Rel=Publisher successfully used to associate a Google+ Page with a website, and Rel=Author successfully used to associate an author's content (on various websites/blogs) with their personal Google+ profile. Looking forward to hearing more about this from you! Thanks, Christy

Hi I guess it would depend on what the product is and what the article is about, I think the best way is to think like a customer. How would you see your customer using the blog? What would they be interested in reading about? Using your example of the running shoes and the best athlete blogs article, I think it would work really well if you included in the article a picture of each athlete and then a link beneath the image to the page within your e-commerce website that has the pair of running shoes on that they are wearing. That way you get an interesting opinion piece article that will encourage discussion as well as a link to your e-commerce website and different products within it. Hopefully this way people are less likely just to read the article and leave; instead they will have a look and see what type of shoes their favorite athlete wears. (and then hopefully buy them as well!) Hope that helps

Just to update my reply in case someone else finds this question on the forum search. My stock friend Amos just did a comparison of stock agency pricing: http://www.stockphotosecrets.com/buyers-guide/7-of-the-cheapest-stock-photo-subscriptions.html I think that's the freshest look at some of the best stock subscriptions if you need more than a 1-off photo.

Hi Martin, I have the same problem on my site, Could you please tell me how you got this fixed in Drupal? Thanks, Nick

So..here's the thing... Your template script will be absolutely fine - as long as you don't put those videos on YouTube, where it could be seen as low quality content and will therefore be devalued. However - luckily for you, best practice would actually be to not put this content on YouTube at all, and rather to self host the content (or use a secure third party hosting platform) and then submit a video XML sitemap in order to get rich snippets for your videos. YouTube is an absolutely terrible place to put Product videos as the traffic you get on YouTube is typically low quality (nobody goes to YouTube to buy things) which will mean your videos don't rank will in YouTube, yet you still risk having customers searching for your products go to youtube.com rather than your landing page if the youtube.com url ranks in the Google organic search results for your product. Conversely, if you securely host the content - Google will only drive customers to your site (and not to YouTube) and the algorithm won't be able to work out that you have lots of near duplicate video content. So, in short - yes it is a problem if you put it on YouTube for the reasons mentioned - but it's not a problem if you self host. Plus, you should self host this kind of content anyway. For more information on these principles - have a look here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo and here:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy

I think you may be looking at your topics too broadly and perhaps without enough creativity.  Who's never heard of the teenybopper who wanted to grow up to be a fashion model in high heel designer shoes? What shoe designer hasn't had a model who's little sister didn't want to grow up to be just like her? How many different ways can a teeny bopper save her dollars to buy those shoes she saw in the magazine at the grocery store?  What teeny bopper doesn't have an opinion on the shoes her mom has in her closet or on the shoes her aunt bought her for her birthday? And what writer, worth their salt, couldn't write a tear-jerking, funny, or uplifting piece on any of those topics that that target audience that they wouldn't share among themselves? This is the best part about Google freeing us from the oppression of the "keyword" and letting relevance be more categorical and thematic. Google's listening less intently on what we have to say about ourselves through our content and more so on what those in the social world are saying about us.  This frees us to be more creative in the content that we create for our clients and lets us think more about creating content that our audience will engage with. I think you're better off today writing about topics that are tangentially related to your niche and about ways your audience relates to those topics.  I think audiences today are becoming dead tired of copy that has any scent of SEO and that they are more likely to click through to and engage with that which is fresh in it's perspective. Learn your audience, write stuff that they're going to like, and don't forget your back channels to algorithmic visibility--like structured data, authorship, co-citation, UGC, and, oh yeah, links.

I'd help, but I can't seem to even get to the website. It's timing out on ping as well. Pinging 6ima.com with 32 bytes of data . . . Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. I'm assuming this is something your theme is causing (possibly an outdated theme for your version of WordPress.) This link goes into detail on how to remove the rel='canonical' from the theme: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable... Also may want to check out this URL which offers a different method than the above link did: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove... -- Hope this helps

i would assume anybody how searches the exact keyword of "how to tube" is not looking for fitness videos. if i wanted fitness videos i would search "fitness videos" .... the keyword "how to tube" seems to be how to tube feed/how to tube quilt. Not how to be fit. You need to target different keywords that are more relevant to your site. Forget about targeting your exact domain. If people want to go to how to tube's webpage, they'll find you at number 1 and go there. Otherwise they  need to know that you are the resource for fitness videos or whatever it may be... You're competing with YouTube. Good luck with that.