Copying content from others - aggregator way

[AlexAkimbo]

Hi all,

I am thinking to create an aggregator site and publish (scrape and publish) articles published on other websites. Is it ok to do so if cite source and/or link to original article?

Note: I am not looking to rank such site but just want to have everything in one place for my readers.

 

[tazarbm]

you're not looking to rank, but if you do rank and you monetize this content you'll probably get DMCA'd into oblivion by the guys whose content you're piggybacking on

 

[AlexAkimbo]

you're not looking to rank, but if you do rank and you monetize this content you'll probably get DMCA'd into oblivion by the guys whose content you're piggybacking on

Not looking to monetize it either
(not in traditional sense - affiliate, ads, push, etc. - Monetization is totally under the radar)

 

[sscaz]

you're not looking to rank, but if you do rank and you monetize this content you'll probably get DMCA'd into oblivion by the guys whose content you're piggybacking on

that's why there are offshore hostings

 

[AlexAkimbo]

that's why there are offshore hostings

That's true mate. Anyway, my questions were not related to any hosting in particular. It's more of a way this industry works. Do they turn their blind eye to such websites if respective owners are cited like source at the beginning or at the end of the article and linked back?

 

[Waifu_tatyana]

I am not looking to rank such site but just want to have everything in one place for my readers.

Are you talking about a site like https://www.feedspot.com?
You plan to send newsletters to people of your stolen (and cited) content?

 

[AlexAkimbo]

Are you talking about a site like https://www.feedspot.com?
You plan to send newsletters to people of your stolen (and cited) content?

Nope. Plan is to have site like any other web portal where visitors can read all the niche related stuff in one place. No traditional and visible kind of monetization is planned. Newsletters and other types of notifications if implemented will be just informal with link to newly published article. No membership fees either.

Just plane web portal open to everyone

 

[Waifu_tatyana]

visitors

And how do you plan to get that? Aggregator sites never rank as far I've seen.

 

[AlexAkimbo]

And how do you plan to get that? Aggregator sites never rank as far I've seen.

Social traffic for the beginning.

 

[shekhar1205]

While it seems a good idea to create an aggregator site and help readers to read from one source itself, it is not considered appropriate even for non-monetization purpose and the site will start getting notice from original content resources pretty fast. Two real life examples I know :

In 2007, I started a website on US Presidents and started scrapping the Presidential Election News from various websites using a WordPress plugin (Now deprecated). As it was a pre-election year, so many articles were being written on the subject and soon my site started getting traffic from search engines despite having duplicated content. However, the site remained successful only for 2 weeks as I received dozens of warning emails from editorial staff of media houses whose articles were being scapped by my plugin. While, some people appreciated my efforts to create a single source for all Presidential news, they politely asked me to at least remove the articles owned by them. I had to shut the site finally.

Second example is of a website in India which started an aggregation of daily Editorials published in Newspapers in India. The website had a new idea that quickly became popular among readers preparing for government job exams. It provides high-quality content on current affairs issues. However, one day the website went offline, never to be revived again.

So, the chances of any success in this field are very slim. Proceed cautiously.