SEO

1) Use RSS with something like Carp to display headlines and link out to sources. Only headlines get indexed.
2) Use built-in VB RSS tool to display full news stories as threads and get the whole content of news stories indexed

What's better?

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I have several vB forums with vBA. I prefer to create a vBA news page with headlines and snippets. I review this page myself daily and re-post only the really interesting items in the forum itself with my own commentary or questions. I prefer this method as it tends to stimulate more discussion in the forums.

IMO, forums that just auto-post RSS content don't generate as much discussion. Human members tend to ignore auto-posted content.

Of course, if your forum is just an MFA site, you might not care.

Well, I'm actually thinking of putting the auto-posted news on the VBa. Granted, I know that those threads will generate close to 0 discussion. But wouldnt it be better for SEO to have the whole body of the news stories text on your site rather than just the news/headline that you get from a regular RSS news feed?

anyone else wanna chime in?

I am wondering if having the whole thing indexed will result in duplicate content penalties. I've recently gone down in rankings, perhaps this is the cause.