Re-posting articles on a forum

[Cosmic]

Do members ever repost articles on your forum from other sites, maybe to discuss, or to cover a point better covered by an article than by the poster? What do you think about this? Does it feel a little bit spammy, or do you think it is valuable for a forum?

 

[Migi]

If it links to websites owned by the poster, I guess it does feel a bit spammy and like an advertising. But still, as long as the content is really related and help to describe the answer, I can still tolerate it. At least the content can be quoted and written in the discussion thread though, if I don't allow them to post links.

 

[cpvr]

Do members ever repost articles on your forum from other sites, maybe to discuss, or to cover a point better covered by an article than by the poster? What do you think about this? Does it feel a little bit spammy, or do you think it is valuable for a forum?

Nope, that's dumb to copy content because then the search engines would penalize you for using duplicate content. Not really a great idea to make the search engines. Write your own content.

 

[Sharon]

Is that bad to do really? Does that hurt a forum when you copy an article? I've been doing that with news articles. If it's a bad idea though I will stop immediately. I just thought it would be nice to highlight different news articles around the web and I always make sure to link back to the source after quoting the article. Can someone confirm this please?

 

[Forces of Steel]

I agree with Sharon. By definition, forums are for discussions, so any piece of information -- regardless of source -- qualifies for discussion centered around that.

My advice is to always elaborate upon the outsourced content, so as to give some sort of substance.

 

[MasterA]

Do members ever repost articles on your forum from other sites, maybe to discuss, or to cover a point better covered by an article than by the poster? What do you think about this? Does it feel a little bit spammy, or do you think it is valuable for a forum?

I think it is fine as long as you have quality discussion going on about the article.

 

[Geoffrey]

I post news articles a lot because I like discussing news, I just put a snippet of the important info in quote tags and then give source/more info link below that. I don't see a problem with it, it's a really good way of getting new content.

 

[Sharon]

Oh ok. So quoting/reposting news articles... this doesn't hurt SEO or anything does it? Is best to quote entire articles or just limit them to a portion? ...or does it matter?

 

[Cierra]

I always quote a snippet of the article, add a read more link linking back to the original source, and add my own thoughts. If it has any media, like a video or something I add that too. I have seen people posting entire articles before and I know that affects SEO badly.