So I have a handful of articles live on ezine right now, and they are getting some traffic, but not a ton, so I was just wondering. I know, I know, people ask these kinds of questions all the time, but I see so many conflicting answers. Does anybody have a real account of trying both ways and know the results? What is your guys overall opinion: Is it better to just leave my articles on ezine, or copy them to say the top 3-4 other article directories, plus hubpages, squidoo, blogger, and wordpress. Are they all going to get buried by google for duplicate content, or provide me good backlinks? Which is more valuable?
True, I could definitely do that, but I am not sure I have the patience to rewrite the same article 7-8 times. Do you guys think it would be worth it?
I'd say submit them to the other article banks. I haven't noticed much of a duplicate content penalty being imposed on those types of sites. It might be different if you were going to reprint the article on your site as-is, but you should be fine re-submitting them.
Besides articles websites, keep in mind that many people collect articles from EzineArticles and other sources to offer made for Adsense websites so you may be careful keeping your articles posted in one site, but someone else can be distributing your job to dozen or hundreds of websites and that is also duplicated, and unnoticed, content.
Once again, the more people who see your articles, the more who go to your site. The more who go to your site, the more money you make.
Rewriting takes time, but definitely worth it. Try different key words conbonations to see if one article gets better results than the other. I did this on ezine and they both got the same amount of traffic and referring url clicks. So if I didn't rewrite it, I would've had half of the traffic instead of double.
Hey Rebt, Cut loose, post em every where. Your articles. No one owns em. Don't see a problem with sharing them that's what ezine does. Viral, viral, viral. Good Pluck
Even duplicate content will not make your website ban, it will give your content a lesser value (since its not unique anymore.)
Make some changes to your article and submit to different article directories. For squidoo and hubpages, I dont think it is good to copy the same articles. You should write different content for them. It will be far better.
If you submit the same article to 500+ directories that is NOT duplicate content. However, if you keep resending the same article to the same directories then they consider it as duplicate.
My advice would be not to duplicate content.. This is the strategy that I follow.. Submit articles that are at least 30% different to all the big directories such as ezinearticles.com goarticles.com articledashboard.com searchwarp.com articlecity.com articlealley.com ideamarketers.com Then create two more spins and use them to mass submit using isnare.com articlemarketer.com That gives hundreds or even thousands of backlinks without having to worry about duplicate content penalty... Hope that helps, Anup
Hubpages has a strict rule against duplicate content. They will flag you and bring it down. See, there is not alternative and short cut to hard work. Submit genuine spam free original content in different sites and believe me you will be benefited in the long run
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