On SEOchat, a recent article about content scraping brought, again, to the forefront of my mind the issue of republishing. I wish the author had made a distinction between content scraping (or rather automatic content generation via scraping) and content republishing. There is a difference between the two. There are legitimate forms of content republishing. Two such forms included ezine article reppublishing and feed republishing. However, these forms are only legitimate when the proper permission has been given. I republish feeds on my own site. The feeds however only show the title and the first 350 characters of a post and a link is provided to the original content. Permission has been asked for all feeds on my site. The key to republishing is to ASK and ASK again.

 

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Paul Flyer loves to research the web and find resources and tools for building, maintaining and promoting websites. Based in Saint Louis, MO, he works in management and spends his free time sharpening his web development and copy writing skills. Feel free to contact Paul with any questions, comments or ideas. He is also available to help you with your own website.