Can I rank with non-unique content

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Can I get traffic with non unique content on my website? For example, 1 article have different parts from different sources and mixed with different comments. Has nice pics, video and good for reading. Does this article rank Google serp or its useless?
 
Can I get traffic with non unique content on my website? For example, 1 article have different parts from different sources and mixed with different comments. Has nice pics, video and good for reading. Does this article rank Google serp or its useless?

How large is your website? How much of it is curated?

Let me make it simpler .. Your ranking depends on two parts:
On page seo
Off page seo

There are many factors in each and the power of each factor is different. Unique content is important factor in on page seo.. So, you will lose the strength if this factor.

So, the main question is, can you rank without the help of this factor? If its new website and the curated content is high percentage of your website, then you will have very hard time getting results as this is the main factor new websites depend on :)

Hope this is a good explanation of your answer
 
If I make nice looking page with good images, relevant video and few parts text from other websites. Can it be good factor for on page SEO? Or main factor is unique?
 
If I make nice looking page with good images, relevant video and few parts text from other websites. Can it be good factor for on page SEO? Or main factor is unique?

How much of content is copied? How many articles will use this technique?
 
You never know these days. Conventional wisdom would say unique content etc... but every so often u get thin sites with dupe content ranking good. If you hammer enough links at anything u will get a good chance to rank, but for how long is the question.
 
How much of content is copied? How many articles will use this technique?
Every article will be very long with 20-40k symbols. And near 100 articles.
 
What you are trying to do is the topic "Curated Content", just search it in forum, or search it on Google, to find if there are still some fresh cases in 2016/17, this method made people rich in the old days(3-4 years ago), no idea how it worked nowadays, but I think there are always people doing this and doing good.

For example, they give each curated source a backlink or a mention, besides that they write UNIQUE comments on these sources to try to make it more unique in the search engine bla bla, one of the problem u may face is your curated source may DMCA against you or email you regard the copyright, so u may need remove the content ASAP.

There are many such sites on Pinterest, try some luck there and learn yourself.
 
I don't want be rich I will be glad to get to my website near 1000 visitors. It's 10$ from AdSense.
What if I will use text parts from different forums, QA sites, and non-SEO bloggers ( which will not notice that I stole content)?
I don't have lack with Pinterest
 
I would imagine it would depend how much of the content is duplicate, if you are using quotes or something like that then it should be ok. If you are able to, you maybe able to use the canonical link element to let Google know what version should be pushed higher.
 
No mate you can't rank with non-unique content.
 
I don't want be rich I will be glad to get to my website near 1000 visitors. It's 10$ from AdSense.
What if I will use text parts from different forums, QA sites, and non-SEO bloggers ( which will not notice that I stole content)?
I don't have lack with Pinterest

$10 for 1000 views?? :rolleyes:
 
Non-unique contents won't help. Those contents can not attract the visitors as everyone knows it or gone trough it before. Posting unique contents is the strategy of best SEO technique. Without unique and quality contents, it is not possible to rank the website.

You should have best infographics in your post which attracts the users easily. There should be use of keywords in your content.
 
Well if you know how to go around such circumstances, you can in fact use both none-unique, and add some unique content on top of it.
The idea of using spun content is to have at least 20-30% unique content after spinning the content.
So if you have a 1000 words article, you can add on top another 300 unique words, making it approximately 30% unique, and since the new content is on top, the first few sentences would get picked up by the search engines as well.
Not always 100% working, as there are other contributing factors as well. But if you are able to point authority links (those that are in the higher-end), it may even do a little better than the original content.
 
if your domain is new, means it has 0 authority, then it probably is more vulnerable for things like copied content/kw density

but if most of your posts are not copied then thats not a problem.
 
So if i will make nice looking article with copied content but with attractive info-graphics (videos, pics) it still don`t get me any profit for ranking?
But how doorways able to get a lot traffic? They use non-unique content but a lot of articles.
 
Non-unique content can not attract the new visitors as visitors already gone through the same content, they will not access those contents again. Unique contents are the key for the success. You should have the quality and unique contents withe the inforgraphics and keywords.
 
Frankly speaking, you can rank with non-unique content without any problems. I've made lots of test, especially "working" with competitor's featured snippets.
 
Frankly speaking, you can rank with non-unique content without any problems. I've made lots of test, especially "working" with competitor's featured snippets.
You mean only website like quotes, recipes, catalog or you can say about information websites? ну то есть ты имеешь ввиду информационные сайты? :-)
I heared some people use farm websites with curated content.
 
Can I get traffic with non unique content on my website? For example, 1 article have different parts from different sources and mixed with different comments. Has nice pics, video and good for reading. Does this article rank Google serp or its useless?

You should add a poll to this thread so you can collate the yes and the no votes. Not sure all the different answers are going to help you find the answer you want.

But yes, I've ranked a small site with duplicate content. Did it out of curiosity. A couple of the articles were scraped from high authority sites. I threw a load of cheap, nasty backlinks at it, mostly from GSA. Got it to no 4 for a fairly broad term.

It's a terrible site and it gets hardly any traffic so the serp position is entirely arbitrary. But it does rank.
 
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