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Is Auto-Posting Legal and/or Cool with Google?


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Ask.WPD @ on July 13, 2009, 5:15
What is auto-posting? Doesn't it create duplicate content? Is it legal?



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WPD Support Manager @ on August 6, 2009, 10:24
Our Content Poster software is the heart of WPD and allows you to great good rankings with Google without a lot of maintenance. All the content is syndicated as per the Terms of Service with the content providers, and thus legal (unless whoever submitted the content was not legally authorized to do so).

We do urge you to use our Content Posters responsibly to avoid being tagged for "flogging" by Google. By responsible use we mean:

1. Make sure your posts are relevant to the keywords of your blog. To ensure you do not get any irrelevant posts (which is often unavoidable due to the fact that not all content will be tagged properly by its creators), either set your posters to the Supervised setting, or periodically review your posts and delete as necessary.

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Contribute your own original content. If Google sees that all of your content is syndicated and thus not original, they may consider your site to be a "flog" (fake blog) and this will have a negative impact on your rank. Think of our content posters as a tool to leverage the power of your own content, rather than to replace it entirely.

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Charles-5679 @ on August 27, 2009, 9:31
If you use autoposting to create great content about a subject that you would refer your dearest friends to read, you don't have anything to fear from Google. If you really want to understand the issues of duplicate content, you need to learn from the "Black Hat" marketers.

Charles http://www.improve-my-search-engine-rankings.com

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Bora-16396 @ on September 2, 2009, 8:10
Can you give some (clearer) recommendations on the ratio of automated content vs. unique content?
Any other tips around the autoposters would be valuable too.

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Richard-20504 @ on September 28, 2009, 2:44
Quote:: Can you give some (clearer) recommendations on the ratio of automated content vs. unique content


I think it all depends on what you are trying to accomplish. IMHO, Auto-posting should be set to supervised if you are trying to build an authority blog and there should be about 50% unique content. This doesn't necessarily mean you create everything from scratch. That's good, but you can get unique content as well by revising a post to put it in your own words and/or your own observations. Otherwise, if all you want is to drive traffic, you probably don't need as much unique content. I know folks that do this with no unique content and still manage to drive some traffic. Probably best ratio would be 10-20% IMHO, and you might want to make all that unique content "sticky" as "announcements" so it will be the first stuff visitors to your home page will see. These are just my opinions, but does this help?

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Amarjit -27383 @ on January 7, 2010, 5:28
Hi Richard,

So for traffic blog unique content should be around 10 - 20%! If we have spun PLR articles for high uniqueness (say 70% or so), will Google treat this as a Unique Content or Syndicated Content?

Regards
Amarjit