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Not copy/pasting stories is not always the solution. There is a ratio. As an experiment on my other site (which I didn't use) I set up a plugin on wordpress to automatically post from a RSS feed. Since installing that plugin about 2 months ago my traffic has went from 200 uniques a month to around 1200 uniques a month. (Not a massive amount of traffic but a increase none-the-less)

I'm just wondering what the ratio of unique/copy is acceptable?

If my front page of a blog is 100% unique but subsequent pages have copy/pasted stories - will that affect my ranking for my main page or just those subsequent pages?

I already only copyright 200 words (which is protected under fair use)

Hi there,

I run a blog @ http://ablemagazine.co.uk

We produce our own editorial content for our print magazine. Which means I have a great bank of uniquely written content. I can usually afford to post 1-2 completely 100% unique articles a day. I've also been copy/pasting 2-3 articles from the BBC or The Guardian a day to keep up activity.

Should I continue doing what I'm doing?

Should I post exclusively unique articles?

Thanks

Having a discussion on someone with whether or not PR0 backlinks can be harmful.

Managed to find these blog posts that support my argument;

http://geoland.org/2011/02/can-bad-links-hurt-your-google-rankings/

http://www.johnmcelborough.com/bad-links-good-site

My argument: Things like article spinning and distribution are pretty much pointless. I used UniqueArticleWizard for a while when I first started out with SEO. It gave me around 1000 PR0 backlinks. A few weeks later my site was penalised from PR5 to PR2.

Thanks

Great idea! I'll ask our editor to drop them a note

Here's the keywords I've optomised for. However a large chunk of my traffic goes to individual articles (In analytics my traffic comes from around 4000 keywords)

Able
Able Magazine
disabled magazine
disabled news
disability news
disability forum

Total Monthly Searches = 15-20k

Hi Limegreen,

Results from programs like these tend to fluctuate a lot. Even google itself fluctuates. So it could be entirely possible that you ranked that high for a few hours on google UK.

If you log into your webmaster tools you'll be able to see each keyword there with their average position.

I've performed countless SEO tactics, post tons of unique content. social bookmark tons of it. Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Implement new sections to my site all the time in the past month I've implemented a dating site and a discussion forum.

Yet my traffic pretty much always stays the same. We are at a level where our site is now the best place on the web to find disability news, and I can't really think of how else to improve it without simply having it more active.

Is my niche just too small?

http://ablemagazine.co.uk