I was just wondering if I submit my blog posts to article directories will it hurt my site when other sites start posting my article? Or will the search engines know I was the original site with that content and not penalize it. Anyone have any problems with this? thanks
SEs will love you and think that your site is good . Seriously, SEs can't penalize your sites for that reason, because if they do that, it's so easy to take down your competitors. Article directories always give the one way links to your site, they help your ranking. Anyway, I suggest sending your article to directories after original article at your site gets indexed by major SEs.
Wow, THANKS! I never thought of the taking down your competitors like that... good point! also good advice to wait till your page is indexed so the se's know you did it first! REP ADDED!
Are you sure about this? I think SEs will consider how much back links to your article and your blog (or website). So if your blog have less back links than the directories, your original article will be considered as a dupe. if you submitted your competitors' article to ezine and articledashboard, those directories will ban your account and reject your content because they'll scan it first before they put your article online. It's simple. So make sure you do not submit the same article with your own content or someone's content because famous article directories will reject it.
I don't think that SEs decide the content is original or duplicated, based on factor how much the site has backlinks. It's not natural way. I think the article they found firstly, will be marked as original. Of course, I'm not sure about it. This is only my thought. I have sent few articles published long time ago on my site to articledashboard and never get rejected. Seems that they don't scan for originality and don't bother I am the owner or competitor . My articles have been accepted by hundreds of article directories and my site slowly gets up in SERPs.
are you sure? Because I ever submitted my competitor's article and I got temporary banned from ezine. They scanned it...Meanwhile, in articledashboard my article is rejected (even though I'm not banned from articledashboard). Have you ever checked supplemental result in your website? If you submitted your own article to ezine/articledashboard, then I think your original article will be in supplemental result. But this is just my thought
I'm sure. I have copy my article directly from my site, paste to article submitter and sent . Here are the links: - http://www.vnviews.com/vietnam-travel-misc/phanrang/Phan-Rang-Den-Gion-Ninh-Chu-Resort.php - http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Vietnam-Travel---Den-Gion-Ninh-Chu-Resort/248468 Anyway, Google has removed Supp tag already, so I can't confirm if my original is in supp. result. Of course, this is ideal .
but I checked via copyscape.com, then copyscape told me that your article is a duplicate content. Does copyscape is not useful anymore or do I miss something?
I had this happen to me at ezine, for my own article! they found it at articlecity, where I had submitted it first, and suspended my account for dupe article. ezinearticles takes dupe content very serioulsy, sometimes too much
Of course, it's duplicated content. This article has thousand copies on the net. But we are discussing about which one is marked as original article by Search Engines, aren't we?
From experience I can tell you to not do it. Leave your blog posts on your blog and write other articles for articles directories. As Trichnosis said, the best case scenario is one article for each article directory.
I would suggest from personal experience that it might be a better idea to overwrite the blog posts partly or fully, before submitting them to article directories.