Duplicate Content - Potential Issue.

[craigyboy]

Hello, here we go again,

If I write an article somewhere, lets say Squidoo for instance, then post it to my blog on my website will google see this as duplicate content and  probably credit Squidoo for it or is there soemthing I can do to prevent this, maybe a linkk back to Squidoo from my website or a dontfollow on my website?

Im not sure so any help here would be great,

Also If I use other peoples material in my blog and link back to them, obviously I dont want the credit for the original material I am simply collating some of this on my blog for others to have a specific library if you like. Is this going to damage my websites reputation?

Thanks again peeps.

Craig

Fenton IT

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Craig,

Be very careful of using other people's material in your blog, both because of the search engines and because of the law. Much of the content that is out there is copyrighted, and you really want to avoid getting into a legal battle because of copying content from others.

Search engines want to present users with a variety of content, and don't want to show users ten results that all have the same content. They're going to look for who published the content first and which site is generally more of an authority, and then generally give credit to that site.

[craigyboy]

Thanks Keri,

What would be your view on my own article which I posted on both Squidoo First then my own website?

Kind Regards,

Craig

[KeriMorgret]

I wouldn't do it, as I would only put the content in one place. In another question, I listed some resources regarding link building that may help you instead of placing duplicate content for links.