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Will you get in trouble reposting and syndicating blogs?

There’s no simple answer, because content and copyright law is a diverse subject that varies greatly based on a lot of factors (some tangible, and others not).

Look at it from a consumer perspective – if I were searching for something and saw the same content twice, I would look for the original to cite as a student or professional. This means I’m less likely to click your post because I can tell it’s not original. Google’s algorithms can also distinguish duplicate content and will simply not show you in the results. 

If you repost my blog content, I’m actually happy as a professional because your site will be optimized for a different purpose than mine. While I may draw a crowd interested in movies and tech, you may draw a crowd interested in fashion and food. Now I have a wider audience in which to pull in repeat customers.

This is assuming you just copy and paste my blog, still giving me credit for the post. If you take credit for my work, Google will destroy you, because I’ve registered and indexed my content with them over the course of years and have a built-in author rating. They may not show these ratings, but I can assure you blog authors are weighted and ranked in search results just like pages.

So if you were to steal my content, it would fail every plagiarism check and you’d be risking your entire site disappearing from Google (including your YouTube account, Gmail account, etc.).

But if you were to syndicate my content on your site or aggregate my content or index my content, that’s all different. You also have to attribute me (and preferably link back to my site) in order to avoid any technical issues or legal issues like me inevitably catching you and shutting you down with the click of a button.

It’s ok to repost content, but it’s no guarantee for success. Do that for a year – repost one webpage a day (video, pics, blog content – anything) and see how much work it really is. If you’re looking for an easy path to success, you haven’t found the shortcut you think you have.

Even a bookstore has to carefully curate content. So does a museum or art gallery, even though it’s free. You can repost all the content you want, but a content curator has to deal with the same problems a content creator does, which is drawing people’s attention.

Reposting successful posts doesn’t guarantee anything for you – you are extremely unlikely to ever profit from it. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it, and you’ll be competing with everyone else doing the same thing. Stop hypothesizing and do it. You’ll learn your lazy shortcut is actually a much longer and harder road to success.