Two questions: syndication and repurposing my own content
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Two questions:
1) Some of my very first posts show traffic from syndication, but nothing lately. What is syndication and how do I get syndicated traffic again?
2) Like many who have been on the interwebs for years, I have posted under more than one ID for professional reasons (I worked in publishing for the past 13 years). When you check content for plagiarism using copyscape or whatever tools you use, if you find a duplicate of the content, do you assume that it’s been plagiarized or do you check with the WordPress author before making that determination? The reason I ask is that I want to blog post some of my own original content that I had posted earlier under my other ID and don’t want you to think I’m plagiarizing anyone else.
Thanks for your help, and btw, WordPress is the BEST!
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Regarding posting duplicate content across domains see what Google has to say https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en
I do contracted research and writing and NOTHING peeves me off more that getting back duplicate content in the SERPs (search engine page results). I am delighted that the Panda and Penguin algorithms can detect it and hurl it into the supplementary results where the sun don’t shine.
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WP.com staffers do not patrol, looking for duplicated content. They DO react when authors complain to them about stolen content on WP.com blogs. But as TT says, search engines detect duplicated content and will severely downgrade your blog AND the site that originally had the content. A much better route is to provide a snippet on your blog with a link to the rest and some framing text. This gets around the search engine restrictions.
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Thank you both for your prompt replies, Raincoaster and Timethief!
Someone is mistaken in stating that WordPress does not check for duplicated content, unless things have changed. According to this link from WP, they do check for possible plagiarism:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/freshly-pressed/
In terms of Raincoaster’s suggestion to link to the first place I posted the content – that’s a useful suggestion. I am talking about incorporating some original poetry that I wrote years ago into a new WP post, with additional fresh content. It would not be appropriate for me to link back to a members-only yahoo group – that would be a bad end-user experience, to send WP readers to a site they cannot access. Also, it is unlikely that google would downgrade for including a short poem into the body of an entirely new post.
That said, thank you both for your thoughtful replies to my question.
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You’re misreading that link. Freshly Pressed is a curated list of “the best on WP.com”. That they might select for originality on that list does not mean they comb WP.com for examples of plagiarism.
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Thanks, Raincoaster. Actually, I was interpreting that link correctly. My question was “When WordPress checks content for plagiarism…” It was that link to the Freshly Pressd process that instigated my question. If the WP team is considering any post for Freshly Pressed and they use copyscape or other tools to check for duplicate content, do they make an assumption that the author has plagiarized or do they check with the author before presuming guilt (for want of a better word)? It would seem intuitively likely that there are multiple WP authors who have posted over the years in various venues under more than one ID. Thanks again.
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In my experience, they never check with the blogger before taking action against a blog.
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Thanks, Raincoaster. I think we’re speaking to different things, though. Since I own the copyright to my blog and I also own the copyright to my own poetry that I was asking about incorporating into the blog, this wouldn’t be a scenario where anyone could “take action against a blog.” since we’re not quite on the same page, let’s drop this part of the question, you’ve done a good job trying to answer it.
The other part of my two-parter was about syndication. Any thoughts on that question?
Best, Babsje
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Aha, thanks Timethief. I’m wondering if the shutdown of google’s reader and the recent issues with Old Reader are pat of the equation, too. Best, Babsje
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