: SEO Advice Needed! Can you use a snippet from a big article as a new small article? I'm quite new to SEO, I have a website that focuses on things to do in a city. We have lots of articles

@Cugini213

The pages that you want to create is something like tag - archive pages. For example you have a tag page with the term blue and you list all the hotels with the term blue, or you create an aggregated page for the term blue

This technique is good but it should be used wisely. For example if you have 1000 hotel pages and you create 10 - 20 even 100 new pages that combine content from these 1000 pages it is perfectly good and it will rank without any problems and no penalty will happen. From my experience these pages tend to rank higher

But if you have 1000 unique pages and create 10000 aggregated pages then your website may be penalized

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@Mendez628

First you have to worry about using information that you may not have permission to use. If you have all the rights sorted out, then you can use it.

About specifics of being seen as duplicate, well, it is, you haven't mention anything about rewriting the content.

Still, if your site offers enough new content and provide links to the sources of the texts that you are using, there should be no penalties or problems.

If, for instance, you use snippets, to give users and idea, and you link to the sites that offer the original information and the restaurant itself, then it's almost sure that not problem whatsoever should happen.

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