Content and SEO

Hi everyone!

I run a social networking website and I use some of the free articles available on web to build up content on the site.

Because this activity improved my traffic (fresh content on regular basis) and I make sure is valuable to my users I would like to continue doing so.

Nevertheless, I have read somewhere that this technique could be tricky. Other websites can download the same content and use it for their traffic improvement.
The outcome = other websites can have exactly the same copy. Could I jeopardize my own networking project but sticking to what I’m doing?

Thanks a lot in advance for any comments
Cheers

I always give an opinion that is against widespread syndication of content if you are the author. Now, it is interesting to get a question like this from someone who publishes such content.

If you have a powerful site you might be able to post this content and outrank (in Google and other search engines) the author, most other publishers and, if your site is a heavyweight, even outrank the main syndication sites.

I publish some content (maybe 5% of the site) that appears on many other sites and often beat all of them with smarter title tags, better optimization and driving heavy linkage into the articles.

I will say that this can be risky... I've had that content bomb into supplemental... but if you have good linkstrength you might be able to stay in the SERPs.

If you are publishing this simply for visitors who arrive from sources other than search engines it can be a great way to increase the depth of your site - if you can find high enough quality articles.

I'll second that. I have a few pages of content that come straight from press releases and I can outrank the company's own media site from which the content originated quite easily. That I'm beating a company with a turnover of £5 billion pounds for their own content, as well as major national news sites, with my own hobby site that has a marketing budget of £0 gives me a warm glow inside. And all done using just the techniques Egol has outlined.

Although apparently not yet pissed enough to call me and ask me how I do it -- for a "small" remuneration

Wow this is interesting stuff. No duplicate penalties?

I published one of my client website many articles on website and someone who our reader we don't know how is added some content on SB sites on reditt and stumble upon okeis also added sb button and rss feed on articles page and optimized articles pages added good title which is really attracts to visitors I got 35,000 visitor on single day.
So I learn that we have add articles page and also have to add SB button, rss feed, book marking option main thing is that articles page also optimized after certain period of time we will get amazing traffic and one way links automatically if your articles page are really informative, funny, understandable, insightful, knowledgeable..........

Just wanted to say 'Thank you' for the valuable info.
I use aricles on my website mainly to make it more interesting for my users. Also, it is a good source of fresh content on a regular basis.

Thanks so much again