Comments on: Articles, Duplicate Content – Myths & Facts…Here We Go Again

By: JR

JR — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:24:48 +0000

@ Increase Traffic,
No this is not what others do. Submitting the same article to various article sites, is okay for backlinks and direct traffic from those article sites visitors and readers. BUT, you always want to have unique and original content on your sites because you might have problems with Google not indexing or ranking your pages high or at all because the content exists elsewhere and those sites will probably outrank you, so in essence, you will be competing against yourself in the SERPS, BUT, this is not the traditional duplicate content where there will be a penalty for your site for creating “mirror” sites.

By: Increase Website Traffic

Increase Website Traffic — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:57:53 +0000

I just want to clear one more thing up for myself here.

My posts on my blogs, so according to this post here, if i took all my posts and posted them to article directories, made squidoo pages, hub pages etc for them and made some kind of link wheel back to my main blog, this would be fine?

Is this what others do?
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By: Andy@christianonlinebusiness

Andy@christianonlinebusiness — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:25:59 +0000

JR,
Thanks for another great post. I am going back through all your old posts and they are amazing. I have not done a lot with article marketing because I didn’t understand that duplicate content rule. Thanks for clearing that up.

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By: Faxless Payday Loans

Faxless Payday Loans — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:29:06 +0000

Really good post. Seems strange that there is so much misinformation regarding duplicate content out there.

Ben

By: ASP.Net Developer

ASP.Net Developer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:38:11 +0000

Thanks for this informative article.

There’s so much fear-mongering on this, it’s hard to separate the good information from the bad. I have to agree that there’s little to worry about with duplicate articles. So much of the information out there deals with duplicate content within a site and automatically projects that concern onto duplicate content across sites. Of course your site will be penalized if you have multiple domains with substantially identical content. Submitting to article directories doesn’t fall into this category.

I also agree that the backlinks generated through syndication is a goldmine.

By: JR

JR — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:50:45 +0000

Hello,
Welcome, your method is totally correct and optimal!

By: wlingle@Credit-Repair

wlingle@Credit-Repair — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:06:24 +0000

I just found your site, and I’m reading lots of great stuff. Although I haven’t read all your article on duplicate content, I totally agree with you here. One thing I do is just to make sure I write a different article that I might post on my website than what I post to the 1000’s of Article Sites out there. It’s usually pretty much the same content, but rewritten specifically for my site. What I post to the Article Sites is usually pretty good content, but what I’m going for really is the backlink.

By: JR

JR — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:45:42 +0000

@ Cata
Not sure where you learned to count but there are at least 20 showing up in first 1000, not that that matters anyway, the total links is what matter, not what shows up first.

You can keep doing it your way, but the main point is that submitting the same article to 1,000 directories does nothing but build tons of quality backlinks, from the directories as well as from all the republished links.

Here is a great example, since my articles are new and you may say that they haven’t had time to “fall off” yet, so here is one written in 2005 and can be found on http://www.articletrader.com/computers/page105.html — “Shorten Your Blogging-RSS Learning and Submission Curve”— when googled in quotes it shows up 819 times, when Yahoo’d it shows up 7,490 times, the same article from different directories AND includes all the times the article was republished by other sites. Go ahead and pick any article from that page, or any other article from any other article site, and you will get the same results.

There are over 6,000 backlinks coming to this blog in Yahoo, many of them from articles and all from 2 months of work. I can google any of my articles and basically any article from any author and they will all show up many many times in SERPS.

This blog went from PR0 to PR 3 in two months, so the results speak for themselves.

By: Cata

Cata — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:33:16 +0000

Whatever… It’s funny however, if you look at your Yahoo backlinks, there’s only 3 or 4 coming from your submitted articles, in the first 1000. Talk about lack of efficiency.

By: JR

JR — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:33:20 +0000

@ Cata
In the long time that I have been submitting articles I have never seen a drop off, I can Google the oldest article title and they are all there in search results, every time.

By: Money Making Ideas ~ Suzanne

Money Making Ideas ~ Suzanne — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:55:25 +0000

@ JR ~ Thanks for the great post! I agree there is a lot of misinformation on some of the forums I visit. I agree that submitting articles does not constitute duplicate content … the directories would not have such high page rank. I do like to put my articles on my sites first … then change slightly and submit.

@ Cata ~ I haven’t been submitting long enough to see if there is a drop off over time.

By: Cata

Cata — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:03:59 +0000

Sorry, but I can’t agree. If you submit the same article to hundreds of directories, Google may not necessarily penalize you, but it will filter out all the duplicate articles. Have you ever submitted an article (the same article), check the links in two weeks’ time and then check them again in 6 months’ time? Yes, many of them will have disappeared completely (and they can still be found via the article directory category by the bots). Even more surprisingly, those who will have stuck will be the ones you submitted to websites with different article MS. You know why? Because they have different html codes. You will notice that only one or two articles submitted to Article Dashboard websites will have stuck. And we all know that the automated article submitters have as a majority of their directories the Article Dashboard CMS. What I do is spin the article and submit different variations of it to each directory. It is amazing what a single different word in your article title can do for the indexing of your articles. I have had much more success with my strategy.

By: Australian Article Marketer

Australian Article Marketer — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:00:24 +0000

Thanks for the welcome.

Re forums: they can be great sources of info. But they can be terrible also. There are lots of people who think they know more than they do. And there are some people who probably know the truth but just want to misinform others for the hell of it.

This happens right across the internet. There are so many people with axes to grind, hidden agendas (and hidden identities!). So it’s best to be skeptical, take your time, and don’t just believe the first thing you read.