May 9, 2016 at 6:11 am

Many of us have composed hundreds of articles on other sites that have subsequently stopped paying, or closed down. There are those of us who have a lot of quality, evergreen posts for which we still own the copyright and which are no longer online or indexed by Google. It is always encouraging to find sites that will allow us to re-post those articles.

Is it allowed to republish an existing post on LiteracyBase, if it has already been removed from the original site and de-indexed? Maybe @support or @admin could guide us in this?

Thank you

May 9, 2016 at 6:47 am

Good question.

I wanted to know that answer too.

Hope that @admin and @support could help us out.

It would be unfortunate to waste out green and good quality posts at those down sites.

Hopefully we could post them here .

I have several which were removed from the site and de index by googles too.

Keeping my finger crossed

May 9, 2016 at 6:57 am

I think, we cannot re-post the blogs we have in the other site. Word Press and Wang Guard may block us from posting.

May 9, 2016 at 7:19 am

If the post is no longer visible while doing a google search what is the difference between that post and a new post you will be writing?

May 9, 2016 at 9:23 am

@lovem I don’t know exactly why WangGand or WP would prevent posting if the content has been removed and deindexed. The only place there might possibly be a record of the post is archiving sites like the WayBack Machine. Chances of them having archived an old Bubblews post? Meh! I’ve tried finding some of my old posts on the WTB, and they weren’t there.

If the content has been removed from the net and isn’t archived or indexed anymore, any plagiarism check isn’t going to be triggered unless your content was already very close to other published sources.

@bestwriter I agree that Google, WP and WangGard will have nothing to find if you’ve done your writing well and it hasn’t been archived where they can search it. But the admin here may still have their own preferences about whether to accept “recycled” content, or in what proportion to fresh content.

May 9, 2016 at 10:39 am

It’s always a good idea to edit the old posts and make slight changes here and there to make them acceptable at the new site. However, it’s best to get clarity from the support on this.

May 9, 2016 at 11:20 am

On what basis would this site reject a recycled article?

May 9, 2016 at 2:14 pm

If I have those posts I have from the past, I would be having an interest on this one too, but right now I don’t have. I am not even deleting my topics at Blogjob to be transferred in here as I am waiting till the site is up and running normally again.

On the other side, it is good to edit posts from the past before posting on a new site, but editing is tedious work to do that is why a lazy me would not do that.

May 9, 2016 at 10:07 pm

@swalia Yes, it is a good idea to do a little bit of editing when migrating content. Sometimes this is necessary because the original post makes reference to something that was time sensitive, or because there are links or tags that go to a site that is now defunct. But even if the editing isn’t absolutely necessary to a reader’s understanding of the content, it still makes sense to rework a post whenever possible.

@bestwriter You really don’t like to be told you can’t do something, do you Grace? Nobody has said at this point that we can’t republish posts from another site. Then again, the decision isn’t up to us as users. It is something the admin must rule on. Even though original content may not be an issue with Google or their spam/plagiarism software, many sites prefer not to allow repurposed content. And that is their prerogative.

Their site, their rules. He who pays the piper names the tune.

May 9, 2016 at 10:34 pm

I am afraid, we can not accept contents that were already published some where.

May 9, 2016 at 11:03 pm

Guys We have a good news for you.

We just had a short meeting with our SEO and Tech team, and they said if your content moves  successfully through our plagiarism test and if it does not exist any where on other websites then we will approve your post.

May 10, 2016 at 12:10 am

@support Thanks for the good news and confirming about this. I am sure this will benefit many people, especially those writers have been writing good articles for a long time, and also good for LiteracyBase, so we will have more good quality posts.

May 10, 2016 at 3:03 am

Awesome news, @support! Thanks for taking the time to discuss this as a team, and for getting back to us so fast once the decision was made.

I think this will benefit a lot of people who had content on sites that are closed or no longer paying. I know Persona Paper is one site that has stayed open especially to allow members to retrieve their posts in case they want to re-publish elsewhere.

And last week BlogJob’s owner said too that he would understand if people wanted to remove content and take it to sites that are paying. I know many of us intend to keep our ties with BlogJob, but have realized that maybe we had started too many blogs on the site. So a number of us will be wanting to remove, de-index, and repurpose content that still has good SEO value.

May 10, 2016 at 5:40 am

Admin has given its verdict, whether I like being told or not @ruby3881  (lol). You must be having loads of articles unlike me  – I hardly write anywhere else. So get going. (thumb up)

I missed your banter. Happy to see you here.

May 10, 2016 at 5:45 am

This will help many who have load of articles languishing written for sites that have now closed down.  I wish I was one of them (lol)