HI, I had a question, answer for which i searched and got a thread pertaining to it. However, the replies were not that clear in it. Hence posting the same question again, hoping to get replies from all those who had really exprienced it. I am submitting same article, to about 100 directories for Backlinks from them. The article is same, with same title, same content and same keywords. Everytime i write a new article, i first submit to Ezine, once i have it approved there, i take it and submit it in these 100 article directories. Will these backlinks be counted by Google and other SEs? will they benefit my site in terms of Backlinks??
I don't think you will get backlinks as the directories should realise what you have done by using copyscape and not approve your articles. Google may choose not to index a page which has duplicate content, so you wont get a backlink from that. Just remember to be successful with SEO, there are no short cuts, if it isnt time consuming and hard work, then its probably not worth it.
But why don't i get backlinks if the article directories are approving my articles and posting it? If duplicate content did really penalizes a site, then there are millions of pages which have good PR yet are copied content. Mat Cutts had clearly said that google does not penalize duplicate content, but what it penalizes is how its been used. But then when an article directory accepts my article, then i get a backlink. Why is that not a backlink? it may be smaller valued, but then ain't that a backlink which shows up in my backlink count thus helping my site?
It never happened to me that some article directory disapproved article because I have submitted it to another article directory. In fact, I don't believe that anybody would submit his article to only one article directory other than Ezinearticles.
I didn't say that duplicate content penalises a site, its just that google may not index a webpage that is an exact copy of another webpage. If the article sites are publishing the webpage, google may index it, but I think they may not. Don't forget that you can have thousands of backlinks but google wont count alot of them. Especially the backlinks that are nofollow. Are your backlinks nofollow?
yes, they will be counted, if you syndicate your content then Google itself advice you to get the websites which use your content to link to you, this is automatic with article directories since they allow a link in the author's box, so they will be credited to a certain extent but don't expect those links to achieve miracles.
The short answer is YES. The backlink will be counted. The value of backlink will of course be dependent upon the value of article directory. It is just similar to a news story being published by hundreds of news web-sites. The backlink is always counted.
See currently i have done an analysis on one of my sites. Google shows that it has 638 backlinks, out of which i saw there are about 10 to 12 directories ranging from PR 3 to PR0, which have same title, same body, same keywords and yet are counted by google as backlinks from each. So same article, i see 12 backlinks from 12 directories. If this is the case, then even if its 100 directories, this concept should work right?
Don't submit in 100 article directories. Submit only in top 15 directories. If you submit same article in 100 directories, it considers as duplicate content and not get benefits much. But, they consider as backlinks of your site. But doesn't have quality.
my answer is there is no till now any info from google that will penlize double content but for you i advice to change some text and tilte from one directory to another
There's no such thing as a penalty for duplicate content, except in extreme cases. Here's an article explaining this matter : How does Google see duplicate Content? Is there a Penalty?
yeah that would help me in terms of trying to be a little different with every article i submit. But what if i am looking for only backlinks and nothing more??
Google isn't going to penalize you for duplicate content on directories. Think of it this way, if that was the case, I could go to your website, find an article you did, then post it to all these sites myself. I could ruin your articles just because I want to because Google would penalize you, even if I did it. Google is aware of how easy it would be to sabotage someone and because of that, and other reasons, they're not going to penalize you for having the same content around the net, especially if it all points back to your site in one way or another proving you're the original owner of the content.
Yes, awesome point there. It perfectly makes sense that google cannot be so vulnerable to such attacks on its users.