I have a number of articles that i've written for my real estate blog and I'd love to start marketing them but i'm worried about being penalized for duplicate content if they're added to article directories. How does google or other search engines know that the content is mine? Do you submit only unique articles which you do not post on your own website? Thank you for your responses.
the article directories will not include your articles on their site if they see that they are already on your blog. what you need to do is either completely take those articles off your blog and then submit them to the article directories, or you need to rewrite them and create unique versions of each to submit to the directories. i suggest downloading the 7 day trial of The Best Spinner and getting to work immediately. if you use an article spinner make sure you spin articles to at least 30% unique or else google and the article directories will see them as duplicate content. I personally recommend spinning to 60% uniqueness. it's what works for me
Oh, I see. OK, thanks a million. One other question, do you submit different spins to different directories? So for instance; 1 Spun Article to Ezine another spin of same article to articledashboard another spin of same article to whatever.com Like, is the spinning of the article just to ensure its not a duplicate on YOUR site, or are you trying to prevent the same thing out on the web? Thanks again.
Also, What should one do if you find an exact copy of your written article on another persons blog? Assuming they're linking back to my article? Should i kick up a fuss?
Maybe you can try to write your own articles. Post them to your own site. Then spin each of them before submitting into article directories. There are tools like the best spinner for paid spinner and easyarticlespinner.net for a free decent tool.
Silly, if duplicate contents outside of your site can hurt you, why bother with SEO? Just knocks down your competitions with it. It doesn't work that way. What happens is that Google will try to stack the page rank and relevancy score onto the article in the directory that has most authority, or what it believes is the original source of article. So what you can do is post your article on your blog first, submit sitemap to Google, then make sure Google index it before submitting it to other article directories. As for spunned articles, those are a waste of time unless they are complete rewrites, even then, SEO effect should be the same. Google is smart enough such that if you just switch paragraphs around, or change a few worlds, article will still get tossed into supplementary results. But fear not, even in supplementary result it is still valid link, and page rank and relevancy score are transferred into what Google believe is the original article. The duplicate content penalty is when you have multiple pages that are very similiar or the same on yoru own site, in which you are trying to manipulate search engine ranking. It's bad for user experience. I'd recommend doing cannonial form on pages that are similar and stack all their page ranks into one page. Otherwise, duplicate contents outside your site can't possibly hurt you, otherwise people would be sabotaging each other over top ranks.
It is better to write other articles to submit to article directories and then link them to your website, it will send you quality traffic as well as link juice for your site to get high ranking.
I would write unique articles for the directory. They can be the same as on your site, but rewrite them so they look unique
yes, most ppl rewrite it and make it unique in this way. Of couse, using this method you can create lots of similar article and could be accepted by the article directory easily.
Spin your articles or have them manually rewritten. Easyarticlespinner.net is a good spinner. It can save you more time in the long run.
First off, there is no "penalty." There never was. Second, article spinning sites do not work. Google can easily smoke such articles out. Save your money! How do they do it? Heh, ask their engineers. But they can, and do...all the time. There are, maybe, a half a dozen article directories that are ranked high enough to submit articles to. All others are useless. I would suggest that you simply rewrite your articles at least 4 times, and submit them to the top 4. And even then, it won't help you unless you submit your site, articles, to many, many more high to medium-ranking sites. In short, I wouldn't bother with directories.
Google has clarified that there is nothing called duplicate content penalty, it is just that they will display the most relevant results for the same article found elsewhere, they might take into account a host of factors to do the same, date of cache can be one, number of backlinks can be other. I would suggest you to rewrite the articles a bit before sending it out to the article directories, that will at least give variety to the content and make it different from what you have already said in your website.
Yes, this is true. In fact, for most duplicate content, this is the only "punishment" that you get. Removing something from the index isn't a punishment per se, but it may feel like one to you, since that content won't be factored into your ranking. Your best bet is to rewrite (without a spinner!!) and make it at least 50% different. There are free tools online that will calculate how different your articles are.
Duplicate content is a MYTH! I know this for a fact. With that said, here's how I submit the SAME articles I post on my site to multiple article directories... - I post the article on my site with an introduction and a summary that personalizes it more for my readers. - I post the same article (with no introduction or summary) to multiple article directories... and, no, I never bother with spinning. Google loves my site, I get tons of backlinks, and have never had a problem doing it this way. And yes, I know what I'm doing... I've been successfully marketing online since 1998.
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You can use those articles for different purpose link blog posting but for article directories, you should use unique content so that it will be approved by the moderator.
Hey guys, check this out- I’m gonna go to Google right now, I’m going to an authority site called cnet.com, this is a very popular review site, and I am typing in iPhone, in particular, iPhone reviews. There are 617 different reviews. Now I’m going back to 2008 to give some breadth to the example. So here is a random review, and if I copy and paste the text into google search, putting speech marks at the beginning and end (this will bring up all searches with that exact text). There are around 98 results matching the long tailed keyword. That means that the same review has appeared on 98 different sites. My point being that the exact wording of the review appears on all 98 sites, and Google has not penalized any of them. It’s like a news report, which appears on many different news channels, all identical but ultimately not considered duplicate content by Google. Give it a go and see for yourself. From this, surely we must conclude that this isn’t duplicate content in Googles eyes So, the obvious question is begged, what is duplicate content? Duplicate content is when you have the same content on the same website. You might have it on a different page, but it is still on the same website. Why do people do this? Well, people sometimes try and fool Google, they try and flesh out the site, make it appear larger than it actually is, maybe change the content a little, but not enough to warrant it being classed as original content. This then places the site higher up in Google and gives the site a false page ranking. Please correct me if this is wrong as I too am learning this exciting trade. Kind regards Neil www.dida-media.com