Considering some articles to some directories but am worried about Google and other search engines considering it duplicate content and penalizing me. Thoughts?

You would think that the CORRECT information about duplicate comtent would eventually sink in.

http://www.modtalk.co.uk/article/c-a...tent-the-myth/

It hase been THREE years now

Thanks

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Originally Posted by watchitmister

Considering some articles to some directories but am worried about Google and other search engines considering it duplicate content and penalizing me. Thoughts?

No, google will not consider it as duplicate content and will not penalized if you ad a link back to referral site or add the complete author resource information on all sites where you submit article.

Read here in detail what google says about duplicate content-
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=66359

While writing blogs or articles we must include unique content. Submitting article to directories is a popular method to increase the site traffic. Now there are a lot of articles deals with the same subject. So the higher ranking will be given to the article with attracting contents.

If you are afraid, do not do it.

Life should be easy without risks.

Bompa

Never get carried away by duplicate contents.

Always stick on ORIGINAL, content which offers ample information to the visitors.

rewrite the original article and spin it and then submit to directories.. this will avoid the duplicate problems

My approach is this... I write a blog post about Topic X for my blog. My posts are usually pretty long (1500-2000 words) because they are in depth.

Then I write a 2nd article from scratch about the same Topic X, but it's shorter (700-1000 words) and written a little bit higher level (less detail) than the blog post on the same topic. I write this 2nd article without ever looking at the first... so it, too, is totally unique. I plant a link in the body of the article pointing to my blog post about the same topic, and in the author box at the bottom of the article I put a 2nd link to my site.

Then I submit the 2nd article to ezinearticles.com. Who cares if 100 copies of my ezine article get republished. That's 100 backlinks... 1 of those hundred is the originator of the content (probably ezinearticles.com since it's likely Google will find it there first)... the other 99 are duplicate.

But here is the key... My blog post to which they are all pointing is the ONLY copy for the long version. It's unique. There is no duplicate content for my blog post, and it is the blog post that I am promoting... not the ezinearticle.com article. I don't care which site gets credit for originator of the 2nd article.

If it's a blog post I really want to promote then I will write a 3rd article totally unique but about the same Topic X, and post it on goarticles.com. ad infinitum.

Google allows article syndication, if you are worried about your links you will not be penalized. The penalty arises in ranking, if you have one article submitted to 10 different article directories and your article is also published in your website, then your article will not rank well.

rewrite the original article and spin it and then submit to directories.. this will avoid the duplicate problems

Well put - this is what I do. Sometimes, I don't even spin it - I just totally rewrite it and make it look 100% different.

Generally Google looks for the first occurrence of the article, thus it would be wise to first put the article in your own directory and then look for content syndication.

In my case to make it unique I will spin the article and submit to anti-plagiarism sites like copyscape and also anti plagiarism programs like drupefree. I will compare the results and the article will pass if it is 85% or more unique.

Its better to use 'copyscape' site to ensure the content duplication before publication.

Originally Posted by benedict65

In my case to make it unique I will spin the article and submit to anti-plagiarism sites like copyscape and also anti plagiarism programs like drupefree. I will compare the results and the article will pass if it is 85% or more unique.

In any case when you are submitting the article for the first time then you article is unique(assuming you ahev worked hard on the content). But when you start submitting the article to different directories then due to content syndication you are creating multiple copies of your original article right???

So what's your take on this???

Over syndicating content is not good, better focus on submit each unique article to different article sites. Alternatively, use an article spinner or rewrite the articles.

Actually Google will not even "know" (or care) which is the "first one on-line". In case of duplicates Google will show the most important as determined by their algorithm.

Originally Posted by amorsolo

Google allows article syndication, if you are worried about your links you will not be penalized. The penalty arises in ranking, if you have one article submitted to 10 different article directories and your article is also published in your website, then your article will not rank well.

Thank you for this information. I think I will stop submitting my articles to other sites. I've written many unique articles about Chinese hand embroidery and submitted them to many directories. I also keep a copy of each article I wrote on my own site. It seems google has penalized my site.

^That is totally painful but then again atleast now you know the hole.You can correct it.The rule in article submission is submitting original articles in high PR directories and putting the site in the resource box and not publishing it in your own site.