User-Generated Content - warmful or not?

[CreativeDaddy]

Greetings everyone,

Do you believe user-generated content can be warmful for a web forum in terms of seo?

Let say a user starts copy/paste the exact content from another web forum "threads" with exact title & content and publish it on that forum? Would it make the forum have a penalty by google?

Let me know you're thoughts, appreciate you're time.

 

[Dopious]

Na, quite the contrary, user interactions with a lot of real users is beneficial to a forum in Googles eyes. Copying threads counts as duplicate content though if done to much.

 

[CreativeDaddy]

Na, quite the contrary, user interactions with a lot of real users is beneficial to a forum in Googles eyes. Copying threads counts as duplicate content though if done to much.

Duplicated content will not hurt the platform in terms of seo?

 

[SeoWrecker]

Good for SEO if the platform is well maintained and moderated, which is the actual challenge.

 

[Dopious]

Duplicated content will not hurt the platform in terms of seo?

A couple of them don´t hurt, but sure if you only post duplicate threads it might hurt more, it was a long time since I runned my forum but the thing is if you have real users that respond to those threads it is different from the original.

 

[titan booster]

Copying content from another forum, including titles and exact text, can lead to SEO penalties from Google due to duplicate content. For SEO, it’s best to encourage unique, user-generated content to improve rankings and user engagement.

 

[splishsplash]

Greetings everyone,

Do you believe user-generated content can be warmful for a web forum in terms of seo?

Let say a user starts copy/paste the exact content from another web forum "threads" with exact title & content and publish it on that forum? Would it make the forum have a penalty by google?

Let me know you're thoughts, appreciate you're time.

Put blackhatworld into semrush or ahrefs.

Question answered

 

[CreativeDaddy]

A couple of them don´t hurt, but sure if you only post duplicate threads it might hurt more, it was a long time since I runned my forum but the thing is if you have real users that respond to those threads it is different from the original.

Well it's not me actually, I'm worried about users do it.