Is this NEW on ActiveRain?

I think it is a wonderful idea, not sure why it has not been there before BUT I wonder if those who copy and paste content to ActiveRain for points  or another reason would fill it in.

Is it to encourage members to share content that is not original on AR?  

I had another question about the Original URL box as it relates to those who repost their content from their own Blogger.com blog, a WordPress.org site etc. 

That was my thought Cindy. 

Karen They may own it but if they want to tell Google that this is not the first instance of the content and not give AR the credit for the content OVER their WP.org / Blogger.com content, this same field would work for that.  I did NOT play with it to see but I will.   Does it tell Google / search engines that this is something that is not the original. 

Ki I was told its new as of yesterday.

Olga and Johnny thanks for the comments.  You are more observant than I or it happened just yesterday. Or the day before.  I forget when I last posted here.

Olga I hate the look of the Kersplat symbol and the ambiguity of it.  Someone told me one big mama r.e. guru (in her own mind anyway) got caught by AR copying and pasting but I am sure it was her content reshared here and she took the kersplat.   If ontent is online I will share via a link and a quote and blather on and on about it (or not)  rather than copy and paste a whole post.  If Google picked up the AR version as the original I would feel horrible, even with permission to use.  You have no control. 

Curious about the change you proposed Charita.  Off to read your post. 

Thanks! 

Thanks Georgina, it's new.  It's a good thing.

Debbie My thought is it will show with a symbol that some interpret as the scarlet letter. Or did.  I have not seen a lot of content with a kersplat on it lately.   You won't get points for it either.  Most members are very points oriented.   I think they need to do a little more "splaining." 

Posted by Maureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate on 12/13/2012 12:36 PM

Could you just insert the link into posts yourself?  Not use the "It is not my content?" because it is your content.  Switching back and forth to html got a lot easier recently on AR.  I always knew I could do this but I hate editing content in html, especially old content, so I avoided switching to html while posting unless absolutley necessary.  I also have not really been interested in posting the same content in two places, but run into so many people who are so concerned about doing so.

It's a lot easier now!

I assume this space at the bottom  part of the ongoing effort to make sure the original content on AR shows up in the SERPS.  

My little experiment with my own content  is because so many members are concerned with posting the same content both here and a WP site.  It is not something that I want to do necessarily.  In my little experiment I did NOT post the content to my AR Outside blogs. I may go back and do that experiment when I have some time.   The bottom of an AR post has the line that tells the search engines the Outside blog's post is the original.  Not sure that is working.

If in my experiment I did post to my AR Outside blog would I have 2 canonical links?  The one that the Original URL content and one saying the original content is on my Outside blog?

Deleting comments with the link because they are stretching my AR blog too wide.