I have this program that submits articles to various article directories and I have a question about it. What you are supposed to do is create an article and the program submits that article to several article directories. My question is this. If you create a unique article and submit that same article to several article directories, then the same article would appear on several webpages, right? If this is the case then won't Google see all of these articles as duplicate content and torpedo all of the pages in the various article directories that my article appears on. Thus making the submissions useless. I asked the creator of this program this same question and he replied "No, not at all." But I was hoping someone on these forums could explain why I'm wrong. Because I don't understand. Thanks
No, this isn't the case. Your article is yours and as such, you are free to submit it to where ever you want. What google will do is ONLY index one article, probably on the highest PR site (Like Ezinearticles). However, it won't hurt any of your other articles. Just think of it this way, you submit to many sites you get: A. More chances to get high ranked in google B. More backlinks to your site C. More internal traffic from these individual sites. So, post to as many as you can! -Rob-