is this acceptable?

[shady]

I have a web project where I will take several rss feeds of common interest, publish the headline and 20 words of text into a blog, linking directly back to the source site.

While the source will obviously benefit from increased traffic, part of me feares they may not approve of me republishing the rss.

What do you think?

 

[Stelly]

you could ask permission first??

Stelly

 

[bigdm]

I think they will only get bothered, if there posts are only 20 words long.

its free promotion for them, and free content for you.. Win Win...

 

[ultim]

Perfectly acceptable imo. Isnt what RSS is designed for?

 

[philjohn]

Are you doing this to get more content on your site easily? If so it will backfire as it will be very close to content published on another site (in the eyes of Google anyway). This happened to a client of ours who has several e-commerce sites, two of them had identical product descriptions for 30-40% of the catalogue and one of the sites pretty much disappeared from the main index until the problem was rectified.

 

[gord]

Are you doing this to get more content on your site easily? If so it will backfire as it will be very close to content published on another site (in the eyes of Google anyway). This happened to a client of ours who has several e-commerce sites, two of them had identical product descriptions for 30-40% of the catalogue and one of the sites pretty much disappeared from the main index until the problem was rectified.

Did you not contact Google. Duplicate product catalogues is a pretty natural occurrence and they take it into account. If it got blacklisted by the bot all you needed to do was contact them.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Depends how often you're hitting the RSS feeds. If it's excessive then you may find yourself barred.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Ask permission first. Period. If you are ever unsure, ask them. There is no such thing as a free Win/Win situation when dealing with business (and ultimately money).