You actually answer your own question
Quote:
Originally Posted by cppgenius
articles from other sites (non .co.za domains) are republished to cater for the South African Internet market.
|
Look at it from a search engine's (Google's) perspective. The content is the same, so when anybody searches for it, then why not show the original instead of the copy, even if it is collected for the South African market.
Look at it from the users perspective. If I search for it, even when I'm in SouthAfrica, why not read the original? It is as accessible on the Internet as your copy.
Compare this to the News Paper business. There it was useful, if a news paper syndicates a column or some other news, because I can't browse or buy dozens of news papers to find that one story about this South African basket ball player that now is a big shot in the US league.
Think about how you can add value to the content, like any news paper editor would do when picking up an AP story. Think how you add the relevance why you pick the story for republishing. This creates additional content, makes it not duplicate content and is good for your users and the search engines alike.
Just my perspective.
K<o>