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Can we take over the content of a domain that no longer exists?
I have a very specific SEO question for you!
A former site that offered a service very similar to the one my company offers has closed its domain because it was bought by a big player in the market, it is possible to find the Urls but they lead to a non-existent domain. (However they are no longer ranking at all. You have to use the site: function to find them)
The thing is that this site had a good SEO.
I had the idea to go in the wayback machine and grab all the content to copy and paste. That’s something like \~100 articles.
What do you think?
Can Google see it knowing that they have been deindexed but the site no longer exists?
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Alexis
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I’d recommend to copy content, wait for Google to “forget it” (till site: won’t show anything) and paste to your site. I’m sure it won’t hurt your rankings.
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I’m not a legal expert, but I believe there is some interesting copyright law around who actually owns the content of an expired domain, as I think the text remains the IP of whoever originally published it, and not whoever happens to now own the domain.
As I said, no expert—and I may be wrong—but would love if someone who knows more about how this works could chime in, as it’s an interesting topic.
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That ‘big player’ you mentioned still owns the copyrights. I’d expect trouble and also not much success.
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Yeah
I think to copy the content and wait some time before posting.
My advice would be to take the content and run it through quillbot. com to make it 100% plagiarism free and publish it.
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Whoever bought the company now owns the content of their web site. They may or may not care. But if you copy it, it would technically be a copyright infringement.
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That is not your content and that is stealing.
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