Google SEO and PR policy in regards to online newspapers.

Question

I have noticed  that a lot of Zimbabwean news websites The likes of nehanda, myzimbabwe,iharare and so on copy each other and or copy stories from herald, newsday or hmetro. how come thei page ranks are great?how come google doesnt punish them even if all these sites have nearly same content word for word.

Answer 1

Not really, there are no hard rules which govern how content is produced on the net. lt is usually the prerogative of the reader to judge the content they are reading.

One of such danger of replicating from one source is the danger of spreading some malicious infor without verification and there ar real possibilities of getting prosecuted.

Answer 2

Google will penalise the website that publishes the story last with duplicate content. Besides Google Panda updates will catch them soon, Just like directory websites saw themselves losing on page ranks, look at ehow.com, they also lost out due to their short stories that were meant to decieve search engines, so relax and pass the ball to google, they will do their thing and duplicates will be struck off

Answer 3

It might be unrelated but l think facebook is pretty good on that. I there was one time l was copy and pasting a story from a online newspaper and within seconds facebook pulled it off.

I had to edit it a little bit to fool the system. If google can do that, that will be good.

Answer 4

They might have done lots of SEO works.. Even i got SEO service for my new site from http://www.thewebpole.com/ and have got my site rank higher...