As you all know ... my latest project is LifeForceOnlineStore.com. I have a ezine that goes out every other week. Some of my articles are from ezinearticles.com which is a site where people can post their articles for inclusion into ezines. Well ... If I store my ezines on my site and google spiders them ... will my site be black listed because they are exact duplicates from ezinearticles.com?

Any clues anyone?

Those particular pages might recieve a slight penalty, since those articles aren't unique, and other people do you them. It shouldn't expect the search engine ranking of your site as a whole though.

My advice would be to re-format the articles. Change the spacing around, add bold text here and there, etc. That way, the articles will seem a bit more "unique".

Good idea ... bolding ... I will bold things partaining the sites topic.

Change the text, add more bold .. nice idea

bolding and "moving text around" does not make the article "more" unique. There can't really be anything more (or less) unique. unique is unique, as in one off, the only one in existence.

However, don't worry too much about it. As long as the article is contained within another sites navigation elements and other common features this often is enough to make it appear that less duplication of the page is being done.

To answer the next question, No, there isn't a fixed percentage where it will be filtered as a duplicate (it's not a penalty, it's a filter)

Ok ... well I can't change any of the text. That is one of the guidelines but I can bold certain parts.

So in otherwords chrishirst .... if I have these articles on my site it isn't going to affect my whole site. If the spider finds it as a duplicate they just won't list that page right?

or they might drop the article on another site
Depends on which one they see as important for that query.
Sometimes it may be your page other times it may be a different one.

That would be sweet!

I have close to 300 articles from eZineArticles.com on one of my sites, and a good number of them are listed in Google (all are listed in MSN). Duplicate content might get penalized sometimes, but it's better than no content at all.

Thanks for the info WealthStream. Did you change the formatting at all? Did you bold words?

I have my own free reprint articles directory and I would suggest that you do not change any of the text or even make any of the text bold that is not already bold as the author may search for their articles and see that you have made changes to it and they then may complain.

The best thing for you to do is to use your own content on the page and then incorporate the article into the page so most of the content on the page is your unique content. The major search engines should then see this page as not being duplicate as there is more of your content than what the article produces.

I guess I need to read the fine print. As far as I know it is not against the guidelines to bold certain portions of the article. As long as we don't change the content. I will have to read into this.