Copy and paste articles.

[Mr Happy]

This is one thing that's starting to annoy me and getting worse on KWWH and with the way Google now works it's becoming more serious.


I know a lot of members of KWWH are used of just leeching crap in an automated way to earn money from downloads and that's fine on WBB or other warez sites but that's not the way it works on content driven websites such as KWWH. Please don't just copy and paste an article from torrentfreak, techcrunch or similar. Any basic piece of coding can copy the RSS feeds faster than you. If you find an article you like re-write it in your own words or do a Google search to expand on the original article to find more info.

Google is getting really good at matching duplicate content and while you may think your helping KWWH copying interesting articles your doing the opposite and harming it.


It's not just members it's staff that do this too. If your too lazy then at the very least add one or two lines of your own opinion on the topic. This is for everyone's benefit. People enjoy reading articles that contain your opinion.

Mr Happy Reviewed by Mr Happy on 24th Jun 2011. Copy and paste articles. This is one thing that's starting to annoy me and getting worse on KWWH and with the way Google now works it's becoming more serious. I know a lot of members of KWWH are used of just leeching crap in an automated way to earn money from downloads and that's fine on WBB or other warez sites but that's not the way it works on content driven websites such as KWWH. Please don't just copy and paste an article from torrentfreak, techcrunch or similar. Any basic piece of coding can copy the RSS feeds Rating: 5

[ajinkya9]

I agree. I am even annoyed at those News articles that people put up. Some mods do it too (although they cite the source)
But still.
Such Articles are for Blogs.
A news thread like "New iPhone 4 launched" is useless. It has nothing to do with webmasters. It counts as General Discussion, but such articles come up every day on engadget or Gizmodo. All of them are interesting. Bu that doesn't mean you need to post them here.

[Dan.Crew]

Completely agree with u MR Happy

[0ccul7]

A good point being raised. Copying is really a pain and then over of articles which possibly don't make any sense to this "Webmaster Hangout"

[iMage]

I agree there is far to much copy/paste articles. Sure reading some of them can be interesting,but as Happy said in the long run it will do more harm then good when it comes to Google crawling the site

[aishamontreal]

This is one thing that's starting to annoy me and getting worse on KWWH and with the way Google now works it's becoming more serious.


I know a lot of members of KWWH are used of just leeching crap in an automated way to earn money from downloads and that's fine on WBB or other warez sites but that's not the way it works on content driven websites such as KWWH. Please don't just copy and paste an article from torrentfreak, techcrunch or similar. Any basic piece of coding can copy the RSS feeds faster than you. If you find an article you like re-write it in your own words or do a Google search to expand on the original article to find more info.

Google is getting really good at matching duplicate content and while you may think your helping KWWH copying interesting articles your doing the opposite and harming it.


It's not just members it's staff that do this too. If your too lazy then at the very least add one or two lines of your own opinion on the topic. This is for everyone's benefit. People enjoy reading articles that contain your opinion.

^Oh ok mini-mod.

[damnyou]

Or spin the article well before pasting it here

[-zAAz-]

Yeah Completely Agreed with you Happy.
Just visit Web News section, i dont want to name that guys but they post news every minute.
Just Copy/Paste

[ShareShiz]

if you dont like it ignore it. other wise stfu.

[SalmanAbbas007]

Agreed