How bad is this

[rcep]

i have a script on my forums that will create a new thread from rss news websites
that means it creates new topics with news content of major news websites from rss
like Reuters
this will create me lots of topics of 3 line news healines + a link
this means more pages in google but is it a good idea to keep such script
will it have any negative impact on my site ?

 

[shockie]

sounds like it will create lots of duplicate content :td:

 

[rcep]

but what will the duplicate content do badly
its only 2 lines duplicated in a whole page will it effect that much ?

 

[shockie]

search engines don't want to list thousands of pages that all have the same thing written on it.

you should generally keep your duplicate content to a minimum, and i'd say that anything over 50% is bad.

 

[rcep]

but its just
20 keywords after each other that are the same as another site and the rest of the page contains keywords which are not like other site

will it decrease my page rank ?
in what way will it effect my site ?

 

[shockie]

if those 20 keywords represent less than 50% of the crawlable content on the page you should be fine. but if the content on the forum page is the duplicate feed and your forum template, and those combined make up over 50% because no one posts anything, then you should try harder on getting original content.

pagerank is based on links, which is only indirectly related to content.

lots of duplicate content makes for a less useful site (usually).

 

[rcep]

i am keeping this just to gain few more hits from current visitors + loads of search engines pages
people loved the section no way it can be useless it just keeps them uptodate of the latest news from all sites all in one
but search engine wise will it effect it negativity in way

 

[MrCat]

It may help you to be on the safe side if you include a link from where the duplicated line/article was taken from.

 

[rcep]

i already got a link to the original artical

If i create a page or random keywords found on my site at the buttom of my site
will this benefit me in anyway in my case wont this increase the unique content percentage ???

 

[The Stealthy One]

Do you have time to do a summary of an article every hour, and then post the summary? This way it's the same news, but in your own words, so you don't have to worry about the duplicate content issue.

 

[rcep]

well very hard when i have 20 topics posted each minute
the idea is keeping the member uptodate by all the news all in one place