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    • BrickPicker
      BrickPicker last edited by

      I have a news section on my site that I aggregate from multiple RSS feeds.  They are stored on my site and I have sitemap that links to them.  Is this a negative thing to do?  Since its overall duplicate content to another site, it may be a strike against me.  Should I just leave it as an updating feed and not keep the articles visible on my site?

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      • Rushmark
        Rushmark last edited by

        There have been two videos by Matt Cutts about this sort of thing:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13-yP3Zhns

        and

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtbNpeYP_OM

        whilst they don't describe the exact scenario that you're talking about, they probably answer the generic question about how Search Engines are likely to view news feeds.

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        • BrickPicker
          BrickPicker @Rushmark last edited by

          Overall it doesn't seem like it helps it any that is for sure.  I will put noindex,nofollow on those pages since it is not my content.  Thank you for the links

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          • simon_realbuzz
            simon_realbuzz last edited by

            On a similar note to aggregating news as outlined in the question, I wonder how Google views a site such as Pinterest which is essentially just an aggregator site and offers little of additional value other than being a scrapbooking-referral type site. Any ideas anyone?

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            • BrickPicker
              BrickPicker @simon_realbuzz last edited by

              I personally never see Pinterest in my search results.  I just did a few searches for topics I like and they have awful descriptions, etc.  I don't know how many people search goole for Pinterest topics instead of just going to pinterest itself.  I do understand what you mean.

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