Would submitting an article I write somewhere else be flagged as duplicate content if I rewrote it a bit? Ex: I write a post on my blog then change it around into an article but when I post the article it links back to that blog. Is there any article sites I should strive to get listed into? Which ones from your experience give the most traffic? Thanks in advance, will add +rep to those that answer throughly.
I don't support article rerwriting. But if you receive an article, you have ordered from someone, you can check its originality by Copyscape.com . If the article pass the copyscape, it is considered as 'safe'. I use even easier method. I grab a random sentence or a paragraph from an article and I put it in Google. If an article was copy-pasted or 'badly' rewriten, long sequences of bold text will appear in description of the first result in Google, meaning the article was 'obtained' from there. Article sites? Wikipedia is really often listed on 1st page in Google after searching for an one word keyword, for which it is expected that should be 'defined' or 'described' (e.g. uremia, fan, etc ) If you manage to write a new article on Wikipedia and then write a really good and 'not short' (at least 2K words, I'd say) article on your site, you can put a link to your site in 'external links' under your article in Wikipedia. You can also find an already written Wikipedia article and put 'external link' under it. Do this only, if your article is higly relevant and quality, otherwise the link will be removed by Wiki. moderators in few days. Scroll down a little when you come here and you'll find a list of 20+ article submitting sites which get most traffic according to Alexa rank. For other article submitting sites, you can do this: search in Google for a keyword(s) you think people will search when they want to find a content your article provides, and look if there are any article submitting sites listed...By my experience, the only 'articles site' which is usually listed high is About.com (they accept articles from their choosen writers only though).
Can someone list the online tool that you can use to compare two texts (original and rewritten version) and show what % is the difference? Thanks!
Word doesn't work for you? You can compare two text there, as I know. It only won't give you these %, but you can estimate it by an eye.
ezinearticles.com is probably one of the most popular article directories. I don't think that you can get a lot of traffic unless you write so many articles or your articles become enormously popular. With that being said, this article directory brought me more traffic than all other article directories that I tried.
word is a powerful tool to check for the uniqueness of the rewritten articles although it wont give you the uniqueness percentage. you can even check with dupefreepro.com, you need to download the software, its free and you can use it. you can even use http://www.dupecop.com/duplicate-content-checker.php do check for uniqueness... i hope these tools are useful to you.
although i personally feel that people should not use rewritten content as quality suffers big time in the same....
Article re-writing is tricky, to be honest. If you want to really be good at it, you have to have a unique ability to take entire ideas and spin them into new thoughts. Simply re-writing words isn't enough.
If you want to make changes to your articles, do it. Screw this ridiculous "duplicate content." What matters is what the readers think.
I use Dupefree when I have to write several articles on the same subject to be sure my brain isn't just copying a previous article I wrote. It is a free download. http://www.dupefreepro.com/