Scribit - A good deal?

[ivan.precisodisso]

Hi there!

There's a new platform on the web which says that it can crawl on the web to get the best content around social media and blogs in order to allow the developer of website "x" to public this content on their websites (with all rights reserved - that make me believe that it generates automatically rel="cannonical" tags).

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/18/scribit-launch/

http://www.scribit.com/

I aways heard that all kind of automatic content applications suck, and my fist impression about this one was the same.

But my business partner found it really interesting, mostly because we have a small team to generate constant great content.

So I said to him that automatically generated content commonly suck in any case, and google sometime will find that our blog has 1kk rel="canonnical" tags for every post and they might find it suspect.

Anyway he asked me to research more about this specific platform and I wanna know what you guys think about it.

Forget speech errors. English is not my native language.

Regards.

[David_H]

Hi Ivan,

Scribit does look to be quite interesting, although I don't think it is anything we'd use for our own marketing.

Getting good content on our site is obviously important, but we want to generate our own, not randomly find related stuff on-line.

I suppose have a news site in a particular industry that would be populated by Scribit and then used to serve up AdWords for revenue might work to some extent, but otherwise, I don't really seem the point.

I wonder if all these links would be seen by google as "unnatural" as well?

[ivan.precisodisso]

I share your opinion about Google seeing it as something suspicious.

Anyone more have something to say about it?

[Brandon.Andersen]

I found a demo video on Scribit and around the 20 minute mark they mention that robots cannot see curated pages on your site (guessing they are tagged as nofollow).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-rosbyt5k

So you're probably not going to see much, if any benefit other than people seeing your content on another site and (hopefully) linking to your original article instead of the curated one on someone else's site.