Panda Update Question - Syndicated Content Vs Copied Content

[simonsw]

Hi all,

I have a question on copied content and syndicated content - Obviously copying content directly form another website is a big no no, but wanted to know how Google views syndicated content and if it views this differently?

If you have syndicated content on your website, can you penalised from the lastest Panda update and is there a viable solutiion to address this?

Mnay thanks

Simon

[IPINGlobal54]

Whilst we don't have syndicated content on site, we do syndicate out with success.

In November last year, google released some new tags for syndicated content although as usual did not go into a great deal of depth as to how it would all work as such.When syndicating out - there are occasions where other sites will outrank us for the same piece, but usually only for about 24 hours or so - and then they tend to pretty rapidly fall by the wayside.

Although this is speculation - I would suggest if you have syndicated content on your site, if you cite source and leave the content intact, and include the tags mentioned - you shouldn't see any problems. If you whole site is nothing but syndicated content, you might rank from time to time for a day or so at best for the odd popular piece - but as google crawls it will inevitably detect who published first and credit them accordingly, leaving syndicated content to drop in ranking.