Posting content from other sites

[mikesilvia]

Please pay attention to Rule #7!

7. Copyright Guidelines. Copyright infringement is illegal. SCF will enforce the law. Never post an article in it's entirety. When posting copyrighted material, please use small sections or link to the article. When posting copyrighted material please give credit to the author in your post.

You should never post an entire article from another site here on SCF. You are basically stealing their content. The general etiquette of the internet is a few sentences then a link to the original source.

I can tell you that Google has banned sites and/or penalized them in their search results based on duplicate content. When an original article is posted it is archived in Google search. Then when the Google spiders find that same content on another site they penalize that page. If they see a ton of this they may ban your site from Google.

[angel0430]

Good to know this kind of info