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SEO: Is it OK to collect information from different websites and display on one page?

My teacher advised me to create a platform where information about specific topics around the web should be displayed at one place. For example, If there are a lot of topics around the web about Android Tutorials.

  1. I will choose the top 20 (or any number of) websites.
  2. I will create a page for android tutorials on my website
  3. I will mention the most useful topics on my page, with the same titles, and same description (no full description, but just first 3-5 lines).
  4. Below short description of each topic, I will create a link (read more), which will lead to the actual website for full reading.
  5. The above scenario will look like the search results in a website, which have title, short description and link to topic.

So, I think, I have explained it clearly what I want to develop. But before moving forward, I want to know, Is this OK ? Will search engines love my website, or will dislike because of duplicate content? Should I move forward, or stop ?

Solution

  • It all depends on the rights. Generally all body of work is copyrighted, whether it is designated with (C) or not.

    Creative Commons licensing is good for this as CC licence usually says what you can and can not do with a particular site and it's content.

    Overall copyright rules allow you to take snippets, and portions but not the whole work, and it is recommended to: 1. Give attribution (link, etc) 2. Contact the author for permission

    As a note, this is why Google can operate because it shows you a little bit of the website, but doesn't give you all of the website on it's own site.

    In your case, my recommendation is to find Creative Commons based sites. If not, then always link back and never use all of the information, only snippets or small portions.

    Note... more your content is duplicate less results you will get from Search Engines, more unique, more better.

    If you have a dynamic site, then the link attribution and using only x amount of words can work.

    If you have a more manual site, then having a writer to write is going to be better. I use www.imglory.tryamillion.com