Snippets on every page considered duplicate content?

[nicole.healthline]

If I create a page that pulls a 10 snippets of information from various external site, would that content be considered duplicate content?

If I link to the source, would it be recommended to use a "nofollow" tag?

[nicole.healthline]

All from external sites,

[toddmumford]

Many of the" local" style generic and niche directories use this approach. Many travel sites lean heavily on this model as well. Sites pull in a number of related clusters of content including

-Points of interest
-Related stores in area
-Weather
-Reviews
-Comments
-Information aggregated from the Internet and published in a 'meaningful' way (subjective of course to the user)

Hope this helps.

Todd

[nicole.healthline]

Do you have examples of sites that use the mashup approach successfully?

[KeriMorgret]

Will the entire page be just those ten snippets from external sites, or will there be any unique content on the pages at all?

[toddmumford]

The answer is really "it depends"

Ultimately it depends on a large number of things, a few of which are:

-The number of inbound links to the website and to pages of the website
-The authority of the website
-The value and presentation of snippets on the page.
the type of content being presented
-The source of the content snippets and number of times it is being used on other websites.

There seems to be various thresholds for duplicate content. Certainly the more authority websites utilize this "mashup" approach quite successfully, while others fail and are subsequently largely filtered off in the SERPs.