Is it okay to copy & paste from Reddit/Quora/Forums to your articles?

[randomstrings]

BuzzFeed authors living off on it, by making reditt ig or twitter virals as article and using images to make a point, and they are killing. Just go ahead get some inspiration and start.

 

[V]

Copying and pasting stuff as it is is always a bad idea unless you're doing it on a large scale and do not care about the survival of the site. If you want your site to be in the SERPs for the long term, then don't copy-paste. If you're in it for the short term, then go ahead and copy as many posts as you can.

 

[Johnpeterburs]

How about manually editing the answers here and there a bit?

You can also run the answers through AI tool like Word dot ai to make the text unique to a certain extent (Remember that it does not make it 100% unique, manual editing is needed).

Generally speaking, Google will not punish for the duplicate content, but it may degrade your rankings and nobody can assure you how. So why take risk?

Manual editing is much needed, but no one understands that the time taken to do all the activity vs doing it on your own occupies almost similar time length.

 

[sageshark]

Manual editing is much needed, but no one understands that the time taken to do all the activity vs doing it on your own occupies almost similar time length.

Well, in my case, it helps to use the AI tool to spin the content first and then give it a manual edit. This way I produce more content in one hour than I would without an AI tool.