Looking for travel bloggers to work with for mutual benefit

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Comment by TravelSavvyMom on February 3, 2009 at 11:27am

Duplicate content concerns me too. I often hear about syndication opportunities, but I'm leery. Anyone have an informed opinion on this?

For example, Yahoo has lots of content partners (Glamour, Babble, Bon Apetit), and lots of cross-posted content. Or articles that go to the partners' pages after the jump. I've often wondered how this hurts or helps the partner.

Obviously the links are great, but how does Google view the duplicate content?

Comment by Craig Martin on February 3, 2009 at 6:05am

It wouldn't be too difficult to create and maintain an all-top style page linking headlines to posts on the original site. The problem would be finding sponsorship/advertising.

Comment by Karen Bryan on February 3, 2009 at 3:35am

Craig there is a Europe bloggers group:

I was toying with the idea of some sort of aggregation site for quality content about travel in Europe but don't have IT skills to do it and not sure about implications of duplicate content.

Comment by Craig Martin on February 3, 2009 at 3:27am

We have limited opportunities for people to do podcast interviews and destination guides on ITP. Local experts can also guest post for http://eurailstories.com.

I agree it would be useful to have a "European bloggers" group to spearhead marketing and advertising. I'm working on something which I hope will help travel podcasters with the same issues.

Comment by Kate on February 2, 2009 at 8:43am

I would like to see if we can work together to promote our blogs. My blog is mostly about Florence, Italy and my journey to my move there. Feel free to read about me on my home website http://www.katerinafiore.com, my blog and consulting website are linked to my home website.

Let's brainstorm!

Thanks, Katie