Is reposting company PR's Duplicate Content?

[markfromslo]

When companies publish press releases,they want as many sites as possible to republish the release. It's different than other content, they WANT you to copy it.

As such, does Google still count republishing company press releases as duplicate content? Do they even know the difference between articles and press releases?

A site idea I had involved companies posting their own press releases to the site, but I'm worried bout doing all that work and then finding out I'm penalized.

 

[shockie]

i don't think that press releases are considered duplicate content, or at least, if google acknowledges it as a press release, it won't penalize the site for publishing it.

how would they know the difference? same way they decide most of anything - through algorithms.

 

[markfromslo]

Any good scripts for allowing companies and readers to post press releases? I've got this site AltEnergyToday.com that is RSS-driven. But every day I get companies asking me to post their PR's. Of course I can't. I'm looking at ArticleLive and some other programs, I don't like the Digg clones because they do not allow the posting of full articles and that drives people away from the site. I'd like to just allow PR's only so the full text could be displayed. Comments would be good too.

Or, is there any way to "scape" or otherwise gather press releases automatically from Google News or Yahoo News. I would not be violating any copyrights, since it is a PR.

 

[lukeatme7]

In seo point of view, it's a duplicate content. Look at Google News, you see several identical articles then by the time they reach normal google search page they are brought down to supplemental result or even filtered out. PRs anyway are meant to spread news for a short period of time.