Restoring content on Expired Domain

Hello everyone, I am building a PBN for myself and got some good expired domain, however while restoring the old content on expired domain I found out that the content of expired domain is already using by someone else. So, the question is can I use that content on my expired domain again or not? technically, the domain that I found is the original creator of that article but since the domain was dropped, someone else used that content on their website..
Need your advice please suggest

Aditya Verma said:

the domain that I found is the original creator of that article but since the domain was dropped

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There is a real mess, because you're not the content creator anyway, even if you own the expired domain. Of course, you can "play your card", and send a copyright claim to the other person, but I don't think that the time invested in such action will "converts". In the worst case scenario, you both will receive a claim by the real ex-owner.

Ricky.Montana said:

There is a real mess, because you're not the content creator anyway, even if you own the expired domain. Of course, you can "play your card", and send a copyright claim to the other person, but I don't think that the time invested in such action will "converts". In the worst case scenario, you both will receive a claim by the real ex-owner.

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Thanks for the quick reply, so what should I do now? re-write the content by myself or spin it to pass the plagiarism check?

Aditya Verma said:

Thanks for the quick reply, so what should I do now? re-write the content by myself or spin it to pass the plagiarism check?

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Write something new.

That's the best choice.

@Aditya Verma

- is the domain stealing the expired content stealing it OR do they own the content and moved it to a new domain? if it is the latter, then move on. Write content that is contextually similar to the previous content. Only restore pages with links and forget about it.

- if the domain posting the content isn't the same company, and if they are stealing it then is your domain stronger than their domain? if it is, just restore the content and you will be fine. I have done this many times. If their domain is stronger, then I would advise against it. I am not 100% sure what happens then but to be on the safe side just use fresh content

Aditya Verma said:

Thanks for the quick reply, so what should I do now? re-write the content by myself or spin it to pass the plagiarism check?

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Yes, rewrite it. Or, better, if you have a decent budget, hire a real content writer. If you have a serious budget, I recommend @ContentExpert - native EN writer.
Or, you can twist the method here: Wiki links - Seek content from other local sites (FR, DE, DA, CH, and so on sites), and translate the content with Deepl, use Quillbot to spin the words and Grammarly to solve the grammar issues.

Cheers!

I've done that multiple times and it works. However I never added duplicate content. Sometimes, in my niche, you get some pages from a website into other ones but some others are not crawled anywhere. I always exact search part of the post content in Google and if it's already indexed anywhere, I don't publish in my website. It's duplicate content and might harm your rankings. I don't think it's worth it.

I would suggest using same title and permalink but getting the main content rewritten. That's the only way to get rid of the mess.