Comments on: When is Content Syndication beneficial?

By: Connie

Connie — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:21:38 +0000

The “long term benefits” approach works in many ways. You can get the much needed break by saying yes even with gritted teeth but you can also be setting an image that may be hard to shake off when you’re not so needy for exposure anymore. So, mahirap din basta na lang kumagat. Mga tao pa naman sa corporate media, they can smell suckers from 10 miles away.

By: Dave Starr --- ROI Guy

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:57:49 +0000

OK, if I understand your take correctly, Abe, it is all about the links. So if I post an article on one bog and post the same article on another blog … with no links …. Google does not see this as duplicate content?

If this si so, then alot of people worrying about the duplicate content penalty don’t really have anyhting to fear … because typically ’scrapers” and other unauthorized syndicators do not link to the content they are duplicating. So if it isn’t linked, it isn’t duplicated?

Interesting.

By: yuga

yuga — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:59:24 +0000

Dave, I think the problem of which content is original is not about the timestamp but which content is linking to. The link attribution will tell Google which duplicate is the original.

By: Dave Starr --- ROI Guy

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:25:29 +0000

Some good thughts offerred up. But I am mystified by your explanation in the Duplicate Content Penalty paragraph … a seemung riddle which I still don’t see the answer to. It is logical and indeed would be the most fair solution for Google to give full credit to the original publisher and then less and less to those places where the content is published later. However, how will Google know3 which site published the content “first”?

Individuals run their servers in all combintions of the 24 major world time zones … are you suggesting that when crawling a site Google will convert the time stamp to WTC and then determine the order of publication based on a standardized time?

Determining “who published first” may well be more difficult that one thinks, me thinks.

By: yuga

yuga — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:49:00 +0000

I’m approaching the arrangement in general (not just your specific case). Likewise, you may take my perspective as a businessman rather than a blogger (trading content now for potential future traffic -> revenues).

I think I get your point. Yes, I agree with you from the point of independent and well-established blogger — some things just cannot be casually traded.

But to others, it could be a good opportunity to get exposure and more. At the end, I stand that it’s a case to case basis.

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:42:29 +0000

You missed the point. There is more to life than utilitarian considerations. And when a blogger projects an eager beaver front, he’ll never get respect. He might fool the gullible (admittedly, there are far too many out there) but the thinking crowd will always laugh at him.