Obviously there is a huge emphasis on original content, no one will refute that, but what I want know is how can you benefit from using article submissions (for backlinks) and not get penalized for duplicate content on your website? Do people who write and submit articles to article databases not have the same content on their site? Just curious.
The duplicate content penalty is more like a filter to stop sites with copied content from ranking highly in the search engines. The filter will only apply for search terms which only show up in the duplicated content. Therefore if you take an article from your site and submit it to hundreds of other sites they will not get a penalty but neither will they show up in the search results for queries found in the article. You will still be credited for any backlinks in the article even though the sites may be filtered in the SERP's.
If you write articles, the first place you should submit them to are ezines and newsletters that are geared toward the subject of your article. Picked up by one, hopefully several, you will get instant exposure of your article, maybe some good business as subscribers click on the links. Plus some subscribers will put it on their websites and/or blogs, giving you more exposure and some good backlinks. Most ezines/newsletters also archive their issues, giving you again good back links and more exposure. Then submit them to article databases. But submit them only to those ad's that keep the links live, as many do not. That will give you more backlinks and some exposure.
Backlinks from duplicate pages are not worth the paper they are printed on I wrote something about publishing articles last month that elaborates on this view if you're interested. - Michael
yes it is, but if someone printed it in a paper and doesnt erase your url as the source of the article now you have an offline promotion...but hopefully it will not be erase