I have one question for you guys as I'm a bit frustrated. When you post articles from your blog on other article directories like Ezine, do you just copy paste your post or you make a new one and link back to your blog?
I always make a new one to submit to article directories. That way, visitors will read different unique articles from the directories and also from my blog. - Dynashox -
People say that you should create unique content for article distribution sites, however I have never seen good results from those services, if I was you I would put unique content on my site and promote my site using other methods.
Depends on the intent of your article distribution. If it's solely for backlinks then why reinvent the wheel? The reality is so few people will hit your blog or hit the ezine site. Everyone things that Google can magically just find duplicate content and will apply a penalty to it. There are Billions of webpages and they can not possibly be crawled with the frequency required to find your one little article out in cyberspace to apply an instant penalty. Articles are distributed continually through various media outlets. Take newspapers for example. The same article hits them over and over across the country. Don't worry so much about the "right" way. Pick a strategy and test it.
I'll submit a new fresh article for ezine and not distribute it to other directories. Other articles though can be redistributed to other directories. It's just that ezine has the exclusive article.
sundaybrew is correct, you may not get accepted because of the duplicate content. However, it doesn't make real sense to do this anyhow. You should want your content to appear in the search engines. If you are placing that exact same content on other sites, you are essentially competing with ezinearticles for the traffic on those keywords in your content. Article marketing, in my personal opinion, is only valuable if you are using unique content that is relevant to your website. Those articles should not be posted on your own site.
They only accept unique content. I just got a mug from them as a "free gift" for being a expert writer... Nice little surprise.
Thanks for info. Yes I will rewrite it and then submit to ezine and other directories. I want to get backlinks mostly with that method.
Enzine won't accept duplicate content. Also, don't use a keyword more than 3 times or 1% including the title. Established authors can get way with 2%.
If you post content which is publish else where already, then you can expect google to give not much importance to that article. You may not see link from such articles in google webmaster tools after some time as google and other search engines will not index that article because it will be considered duplicate content. This is just my personal opinion based on my personal experience. But I still do not post new content to any directory. I always post articles to my sites first. Content is King
I am currently trying to perfect my article marketing technique and just started to write and post unique content to my site with the intent to also post those same articles to ezinearticles. My thinking was to post the content on my site so I got credit for the original content, then post those articles to ezinearticles to help drive traffic to my site and squeeze pages. Is this a bad practice? I do not want to get banned and I already have a few articles that I have done this with. Any tips on this will be appreciated.
Keep it simple, write one version of your content for your website, then rewrite it significantly for eZine. Also, use different titles. Using keywords in eZine articles is key to traffic.
Not true. The duplicate content rule is basically a myth. Think about it, most news websites run the same articles (written by Associated Press or whatever source) and are some of the best ranking sites on Google. There was some post on Google's blog about this, but I can't find the link right now.
netmaster123, You wrote "People say that you should create unique content for article distribution sites, however I have never seen good results from those services, if I was you I would put unique content on my site and promote my site using other methods." I agree with you since my articles (250+) didn't produce the desired result. internetmarketingiq, You wrote "Everyone things that Google can magically just find duplicate content and will apply a penalty to it." Forget about the Duplicate Content Penalty Myth. Read dlm's comment. Probably between 30% and 50% of the Internet is made up of duplicate content. PHPGator, You wrote "Those articles should not be posted on your own site." You can post some of the good articles to beef up your website. Between 10 and 25% would be fine. The above is based on my personal experience (12 years).