Duplicate Content Penalty

[Quidsi]

If our pages are to have roughly 30% of non-original textual content, can we be penalized by Google? Or are we OK as long as this non-original content is relevant to the pages?

[capetownlife]

As far as I understand the recent google posts,original content is king and content farming is more a thing of the past as google is trying to better their search results. Saying this,if your website is a portal for information that is unique but you still make use of variables from others....I.e. Your site is about surfing,but you pull in content on local weather conditions from another sites, I don't think google penalizes you.... Your thoughts.

[capetownlife]

My iPad wrote Andiswa"...lol"..just meant original content is king