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I haven`t looked into it for my sites yet, but there are a number of newspapers and news aggregators who will permit you to receive news for free by RSS.

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Steve Mann
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Think about this issue from the search engine point of view...

they want unique, interesting & relevant content for their searchers (customers)

you (and many others) post copied content to your websites.

how does the SE know which one is the primary author, unique content provider? (hint: doesn`t)

so how can you expect to rank for said content if others are using it as well?

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Search engines have a way of knowing who the original is by the # of links an article has.  They also log crawl dates.  Say you (legally) copy an article off some site, and have more inbound links to your article than the original has.  Most likely you will rank higher in the search engines for whatever the subject of the article was, and the other site will get the duplicate content penalty (usually).  Sometimes both sites can get hit with the penalty though.

If you are gonna add your own twist, it may be in your best interest to only quote part of the article and link to the original, to help avoiding the duplicate content issue.  I am not certain but there may also be a quote tag you can add in the coding of the site to let the search engines know part of your webpage is in fact a quote, and not unique content.  It`s similar to the nofollow tag that you are supposed to use on sold links, to let the search engines know that the link should not be providing any link juice for ranking purposes.

The best text content is created with your site in mind. Relevant is an important word! Unique is too! The best sites have both unique and relevant content.  I am sure you want the best for your website so I what else is there to say?

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