Just to make sure I understand the whole thing correctly... I am planning to make a blog on my website, website is commercial - and blog - on the same url - to help promote it. Anyway, I will be writing articles for the blog and plan on sumbitting those to other websites. How would Google go about content duplication in this case? There are tons of info around about how Google penalizes sites with the same content to avoid spamming, but could someone tell smth more specific about the issue? Some cool resources about blogs would also be highly appreciated...
great question. ive also been wondering, if somebody makes a blog site and just posts press releases on there, would the blog still be able to gain PR. Or since it is all duplicate content, it would be hard to gain PR.
It's not about PR at all. PR has to do with backlinking. Sure if you can gain some backlinks to it, then you can gain PR, but I'd be more worried about the doop stick than PR, plus you probably wouldn't gain backlinks from stealing press releases. If your site isn't as trusted as another site, and you both have the same content you'll get the doop stick, simple as that. Therefore, it is not recommended to submit the same post to article sites. You should take some time to change the writing a little bit, even if it is the same expressed idea, just change it up... And I don't mean switch a few words and flip around paragraphs... Google is smarter than that. If you want blog, Dave Taylor is the blog master. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3636478429299171266&q=dave+taylor&hl=en