re: "Nobody will complain "
Oh, but you're very wrong.
QUOTE from someone I did that to, who was trying to post mirrored duplicates of archive.org content on steemit:
"This is my post. My link, to a page I find interesting. Stop Trolling ME. Your political moderation downvotes and passive extortion arent healthy"
Someone else was doing same thing. They authored an article on small "news" site, and then copy/pasted a duplicate here, so they could get advertising credits there, and steemit dollars here, so I wrote:
:" So if I go to my blog, and just copy/paste all my articles I've written over the last 3 or 4 years, that should be fine too? I'm wondering if Google won't care if we just duplicate content all over the web?"
Someone else showed up and said:
" Go ahead - it's been done by others and not at all frowned upon."
That was me. An author posting his own work is not plagiarism. It's one of the intended uses of this platform.
It's not plagiarism. However google frowns upon it.
In order for people to initially find us, and our content, the majority of that will be coming from Google.
Don't believe me? On Steemit, they can purposely block google from indexing anything on steemit via robots.txt. Try blocking google completely and see how fast this medium grows. It won't be nearly as easy.
To this day, a lot of people don't know what the location bar is in their web browser. So when they want to find a website, they go to google, and in the google searchbox they type: www.steemit.com
They can't list the article twice in its search results. Duplicate content is screened out. I could vomit up 400 of my past posts over the last 5 years of my blog onto steemit. That's not plagiarism, I'm the author too. What kind of quality is that for this community? Also is that what we want Google to see steemit as? 85% duplicate content and 15% unique content? Watch how fast steemit tumbles down the search results at google or gets delisted altogether. Are you trying to hurt this new community long term? Sometimes I don't feel like I'm even speaking english anymore. sigh.
Why would anyone care what google frowns upon here?
By the way, I downvoted your reply. I disagree with what you are saying, but that's not why I downvoted. I downvoted you to make a point about the point you are making.