Does "re-blogging" effect your SEO?

I have found that re-blogging has no effect, positive or negative.  As far as duplicate content penalties, it does take more than 1 replication of content to be penalized.  If this was not the case, every reprint of news (such as the AP) or syndication of information would trigger SEO penalties, which is not the case.

(if this was the case, you could easily do damage to competitor's SEO by simply setting up a single site and spamming his content on it until he was penalized, this black hat technique does not work)

If the re-blog was to be reposted to an outside content related site, the reblog could potentially have some positive SEO benefits.  The links would need to remain intact (tofollow) and they would count as additional inbound links to your site.  The most benefit comes if the site is related content, relevant, and not reciprocated.  But that is just my 2 cents worth :)

I believe you are fine as long as a link to the original source is included in the post.

Brian,

I believe you are correct that reblogging has a neutral effect with Google.

Steve

Legit reblogging is syndication not duplication, so the impact should be positive to null. The anchored link headline back to an original, in particular, would help. Thanks for bringing this up, Brian.

It is important to know which page will rank;  Google will rank the SOURCE: my advice, reblog a partial post, with a link back to your iriginal blog (on your own domain) as the source

I blog on my blog, digg.com it, facebook, Twitter, stumble, then reblog here and other places, to make absolutley sure Google ranks my site as the source:

It doen ot matter, untill you want to contraol rankings like this:

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS247&=&q=social+media+advertising+agency&aq=f&aqi=g-p1&oq=

To achieve rankings on broad 200,000,000 documents plus searches where your comptitors are all guys like me, you ned to actually knwo what you are doing.

What if I said to you: "oh, real estate, I can outsource that just fine, and cheap"

Brian ~ Humm... Great comments.. So, I think I got my answer..I'm going to re-blog you and see what comments I get. I wish we could track this!

Brian, Interesting question.  Google ranks according to original source from what I have read.  I think re-blogging may help the original blog, but if I re-blogged your post it would not help my SEO, it may help yours.

The problem with reblogging on AR, is that it crates noise.  It has no affect on SEO.  The whing that you must understand is that YOUR WEBSITE must be established as the source, and YOUR CONTENT myst be distributed creating a trail leading back to you as the source.

It is no longer about SEO, it is about the properly formatted, unique in a ll the world, original content.  If you think about  it, this is the logical result of the advancement of the technology and standardisation or coding a distribution systems.