SEO Articles taken from Books

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Jure321

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Hi everyone! I was wondering one thing. If I take an article from the book in my niche and copy paste it to my wordpress blog with only minor changes due to KW optimization, is that counted as a plagarism and will it affect my SEO? Has anyone tried doing it? Thank you,

Jure.
 
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Jure321 said:
Hi everyone! I was wondering one thing. If I take an article from the book in my niche and copy paste it to my wordpress blog with only minor changes due to KW optimization, is that counted as a plagarism and will it affect my SEO? Has anyone tried doing it? Thank you,

Jure.
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Google is scanning hundreds of books daily. They will probably have the book you used already indexed. Just think about it... You can easily find book contents per Google, that means they are indexed and count as plagiarism/duplicated content.
 
If it's not found by Google, then your main risk is the copyright holder asking for a site takedown. Other than that, pretty old method, lots of people did this and some still do.
 
Jure321 said:
Hi everyone! I was wondering one thing. If I take an article from the book in my niche and copy paste it to my wordpress blog with only minor changes due to KW optimization, is that counted as a plagarism and will it affect my SEO? Has anyone tried doing it? Thank you,

Jure.
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I have read books, casually, not word for word, outloud into a speech to text program, and used those as articles.
I have used multiple excerpts from books, or just a single book, to compile a curated content post(even linking back to the source)
I have used old books, like 1800's(benefit of a long term evergreen niche), in PDF format as a free giveaway and written a small original bit about them.

Get original to provide some benefit to your visitors
 
Yes. It will be duplicate content, unless you re-write it 100% to be unique. Honestly, it is not worth it. Unless it is a churn & burn site.
 
patriotnews said:
I have read books, casually, not word for word, outloud into a speech to text program, and used those as articles.
I have used multiple excerpts from books, or just a single book, to compile a curated content post(even linking back to the source)
I have used old books, like 1800's(benefit of a long term evergreen niche), in PDF format as a free giveaway and written a small original bit about them.

Get original to provide some benefit to your visitors
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Well that sounds cool. Could you name these programs please? Thank you
 
This will be duplicate content and should not be done.
 
Jure321 said:
Well that sounds cool. Could you name these programs please? Thank you
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There is actually a feature on Microsoft Word for Mac. I only discovered it after someone posted about it on this forum. I am a Mac user for about 7 years :rolleyes:

Open up a Word document and then go 'edit' then 'start dictation' at the bottom.

I was looking at Dragon and other software, using an emulator and everything, and it was there on my Mac all along.

I don't know about PC though.
 
IPlease said:
This will be duplicate content and should not be done.
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Because then he'll get a duplicate content penalty? Lol.

If it is filler and you don't care if it ranks, just rip it and post it.
 
patriotnews said:
Because then he'll get a duplicate content penalty? Lol.

If it is filler and you don't care if it ranks, just rip it and post it.
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Well I need it to be ranked but I am not really good at writing + my budget is not high enough to buy 30 articles so I have to do it on my own. Any more suggestions that could help me out? Thanks
 
T2tkid said:
Yes. It will be duplicate content, unless you re-write it 100% to be unique. Honestly, it is not worth it. Unless it is a churn & burn site.
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I sadly have to agree to this.

I once had some PDF I created. as soon as G crawls them, they are in their index. everything after that is DC
 
For a blog content is much important so try to make it more quality and unique.
Make your own contents and try it in some plagiarism checker to check the uniqueness.
Never try duplicate content to your site
 
As long as that book is not a pdf published on Scribd, or somewhere else and indexed by Google - the only issue remained I think is the copyright problem.
 
Publish it and use copyscape.com to see if it's indexed already on google and yahoo. If it's not you can use it SEO wise but may get copyright claim.
 
One question - Wikipedia isn't doing pretty much the same thing? Articles made up of bits of content scraped from several books, and some minor editing?
 
Dragon Naturally speaking is great for this.

Then use copyscape to check your content is unique.
 
Nobody here really know how google works and they're simply speculating.
There's no better way than try it for yourself.

Go ahead publish a post using one of those articles.
After one week, google it.
If it ranks, good. If it doesn't, do some edits to make it more unique.
Another week, google again.
If it doesn't make any progress, just delete it.

Then you'll find the truth, and hopefully you'll post the results here.

PS. Google is always pushing updates, any person claiming to know how it works is either Google staff or simply a BS joe.
 
Google has so much information and its scary.
Thing is if the books might already in google database even if its out-of-print.
At least use copyscape to check if its in the system.
 
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