is it well to forbid duplicate articles in my article directory?

As the title says i'm wondering if it's a good point not to allow people posting duplicate articles (even they are written by them). I think if i will accept such articles google will consider it a spam factory or will ban me for duplicate content. What about you, article directories owners ? do you accept such content on their articles??

 

Theres no reason that i can think of to list an article twice in one directory.

 

Once you get to the top, if you get to the top, maybe.

But most people who use article directories are just looking for links. And if you expect unique content in an unknown directory you are probably fighting a battle you can not win. Who would do that? What is in it for them?

The same article can rank in multiple directories. Google doesn't penalize, they filter and give one source more value than the other.

 

I don't think he was talking about posting the same article multiple times in the same directory.

To the OP, and how can you identify the duplicate articles ? Copyscape ?

 

I can't see any problems with having the same article published in multiple sites
as long as that article has appropriate Copyright attribution

But then again, I maybe wrong



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Yeah. Just think about all the press release websites: do companies write an unique article for each ? NO!

 

I don't think that you should allow duplicate articles in your directory. It's not right because another person who submitted can take their spot.

 

Using google.

I search for the title and some random phrases in the text in quotes.

 

I agree.

Some other reasons it might be OK
- Article owner will benefit from having his work available to as many people as possible
- If article published in one directory only, then the rest of them will be simply empty
- and then of course RSS feed



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Duplicate articles submission should be forbidden. You directory need to provide quality content to its visitors, and to them, seeing an article twice is not something interesting to do.

 

Where directory will be getting that content from if author can publish his work only once,
meaning in one single directory only?



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You can accept it and place it in a different category, so if an article is about Health related and talks about aging and nutrition, then an appropriate categories you could place them into are:Aging and Nutrition.

As long as it relates to what ever subject it maybe, you make the call and not search engines and not even the visitors, it is you the webmaster that decide, if you think it belongs to 10 different categories giving you 10 "duplicate" articles, then so be it.

The visitors will know that it also fits within that category and if it has been read on the previous category, then most likely it will not try to read it again.

So long as you don't have it all on the same page

 

If you want to keep your article clean you better prohibit people from submitting duplicate contents whether they are the author or not that way people will consider your directory a reliable one.

 

I had thought about building an article directory - seemed like a perfect fit for a writer.

It becomes so very frustrating when searching on a topic to find 20 or more copies of the same bleepin' article on the myriad of article directories. I remember one article about equipment financing that was magically written by about a dozen different people using the same exact words and examples - who'da thunk it.

Problem is that people are not going to be willing to give up a unique article without good reason. Unless your directory can provide tangible results, requiring unique articles might be a hard sell. On the other hand, IMHO having unique articles should in the long-term help your branding as a quality resource.

Even if you check each article at submission, what's to keep people from simply submitting their articles to your site first and then submitting to the article directories without a unique requirement?

Sorry, I guess I didn't really answer your question which is why I opted not to try my hand at an article directory.

It sounds like you already have the directory up and running. You're going to have to decide if your site has enough clout/respectability to demand unique works or if you're going to have to accept that people will reuse articles. If you allow for reuse, your SEO & marketing strategy should perhaps change to focus on getting your pages indexed first.

 

I would think the duplicate content would simply be ignored, not penalized.

 

and here is why.

Let say we have 1,000 Article directories and 1,000,000 unique articles.
If all articles become published in 1 directory, then the rest 999 directories would go down because they cannot re-print the same articles.

Now let say all 1,000 directories got equal share of 1,000 articles each.
At least for me it would be disaster because with 500 categories, that directory will have only 2 articles per category and even if there is only 100 categories, it still will be looking naked.

Just my 2c.



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I think you should only allow an article to appear once in your directory to avoid duplicate content penalty from search engines. I may be wrong, but from what I have read from SEO experts, search engines do not like multiple copies of the same content from the same domain or website.

 

The article directory isn't up yet, i'm only researching and building the platform for now. It will be something new, smth more than a simple article directory with a common script / ideas / bla bla.

So i decided to accept all articles for a while.. even if they have already been posted somewhere else.

 

I will never allow the same article existing in two time in a single article directory.

 

I think I will not accept