The popularity of blog websites is indubitable, but far from being authoritative sources, many blogs are made to monetize its content with little effort. The structure and powerful features that blog publishing systems have, make of them an ideal setting to start a website quickly whether providing surfers with original content or populating its pages with the so-called "third-party content."
Such content can be PRL articles, which are generic articles that someone else has written, made available at low cost or free. These articles are usually sold to more than one person, being potentially dangerous for website ranking, because are the source of duplicate content that search engines penalize.
Other content can be expressly designed to be distributed, including the syndication of RSS feeds. Any blog or website may benefit from retrieving remote feeds to offer fresh content to their surfers, but webmasters must pay attention when it comes to select feeds.
There are websites that not only make available their feeds for RSS syndication, but also encourage webmasters to include them as a part of their own content. Nevertheless, there are companies that expressly forbid the reproduction of those feeds, or ask to display an attribution or anchor text pointing to the source.
News websites are usually the source that generates more RSS content, but also those that make a remark about such feeds, intended for personal, non-commercial use. If a webmaster takes those feeds to populate content on a blog, he or she might be incurring in copyright infringements.
Same problem may happen when the source is not cited, or the blog or website retrieving feeds try to impersonate the original source, voluntary or involuntary. This may happen because RSS robots only pull in the content of the feed and not the attributions request, which is often expressed elsewhere.
Being aware of this, many companies that syndicate their feeds, and allow webmasters to use them, include the attribution or link back within the feed itself. Carefree webmasters may grab a feed without worrying about special requirements or limitations. Others may not care either way in the belief nobody will know about, but RSS can be easily traceable and the feeds originator will learn about the offender website sooner or later.
If you want to include RSS feeds originated in other websites or blogs, make sure to find if there in not a restriction or particular requirement to reproduce them and, in case of doubt, ask first to save yourself from headaches.
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