Question

"There is nothing new under the sun" How do you differentiate between plagiarized content and repurposed content? Where do you draw the line?  

Answer 1

Well for me. it was simple. I found a competitor that was doing "rip and read" descriptions and just replacing our name with theirs. until they forgot one day and used our name. Then I turned them over to google.  

Comments

@crenellate how do you do “turn them over” to Google? Ran into this problem once

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@endure I just reported their Google ad. I think there was a link to report it on the ad itself

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@crenellate gotchya! Thanks Peter

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Ad disabled?  

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@roley yep

Answer 2

Stating it better. Gathering the facts in a more coherent manner. I almost always rewrite all the H2 tags in addition to heavily modifying the original idea.  

Answer 3

I’d run a paragraph or two through copyscape and see I anything pops up.  

Answer 4

When it's about intent analysis through search engines, one can find content optimisation and content value gaps. It doesn't mean that these gaps aren't available on whole internet world but finding the gaps and filling them for the right audience is somewhat better form of content repurpose or whatever it is called.  

Answer 5

There's nothing wrong if share content witch is relevant, the thing is if you can ad more value or just share. pretend is your content is not a good move. I even give credit to my competitors if the content is good, after all its all about provide real value no matter where these value came from.  

Answer 6

Hey @legroom, that is such an awesome post.  

Answer 7

Passes copyscape!  

Answer 8

Yup. Everything has been done before. It’s our job to put our own personality and uniqueness to the way we approach older content.  

Answer 9

I find a lot of sites in my niche are sloppy. They just put their own spin on everyone else. I like to dig a bit deeper and find the original source of facts, quote genuine research papers, add my own experience, use photos or images that are either funny or really drive the point home.  

Answer 10

I used to just "aggregate" the content from various sources on a single page and people liked it. As well as Google

Answer 11

The way I see it, it only counts as re-purposed content if the original content was yours; otherwise, it's just spinning. Re-purposing content is smart. Spinning content is cheap, lazy, and counterproductive to the entire Internet community. Plagiarizing is just plain out pathetic.