Content Duplication Issue On Content Publishing Site

[Mustansar]

I am running Free Article Posting site but I discover people are posting their content which already has been published on different sites before.  What should i need to do in order to save my site from Google penalty.3

waiting for your kind help in this regard

Thanks in advance

[Igor.Go]

You won't get penalized for publishing the same content that has been published elsewhere, but the page with that content will probably not be indexed. Nothing to worry about but you won't be getting any organic traffic to those duplicate articles.

[badgergravling]

What Igor said.

The opportunities for free article posting sites is increasingly limited - the only ones I've seen getting a decent amount of traction have been using alternatives to SEO to gain traffic (e.g. paid social, email etc), and have also targeted a particular niche.

For an SEO perspective, you're basically going to be on a losing streak, as the only people likely to use a free article posting site other than something massive like Medium will be those looking to share existing/spun articles to game their SEO.

[JamesNorquay]

The thing with running a article based site it is not wise to use articles which are already indexed on other sites, this will cause the pages not to be indexed on your site and you will receive no organic traffic.

To prevent something like this you would need to use the Copyscape API on your site and pre check all content which is added to the site prior going live - http://www.copyscape.com/api-guide.php

The API calls are not cheap though this is a viable option for checking large amounts of content on a daily basis.

[Mustansar]

HI James,
Thank you for your kind response, Yes it seems to me the best and suitable way of doing in order to address this issue.

Thank you