Content Scraping No-No’s
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.
Posted by Paul Flyer on Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 in Web Development
Olga Says:
February 12th, 2006 at 5:57 am
Hi Paul,
What do you use to republish feeds on your website? Can you please recommend a reliable server-side script?
Thank you,
Olga.
Paul Flyer Says:
February 13th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Olga,
Pages with republished feeds use CaRP.
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/
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