A note about the dangers of auto posting to other blogs with Posterous.
The folks at Posterous have enticed many people to start using their service by claiming that it is super simple to post your content to your blog and post to any or all of the following:
Facebook (Profiles and Pages), Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Plurk, Identica, Blogger, Tumblr, Livejournal, Shopify, Typepad, Xanga, WordPress (XML-RPC must be enabled), MoveableType, Drupal, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, Blip.tv, Scribd, and Delicious. (taken directly from Posterous’ web site)
It is true that you can do all of this, but what they are not saying is that if you use Posterous to post to another blog, and you want the other blog to be the official source of of the information in Google search results, you will run into problems. Google has made changes to their search indexing algorithm, called “
the Panda Update.” They are penalizing sites that post information that is duplicated elsewhere, and are favoring (rightfully so) the original content.
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