Here's a good thread on duplicate content at site-reference: http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/1503/Please-Review-www-aesa-org-uk/ The only new good link I found in that thread was http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=144&page=59
Cheers. Will have a look at those. Is this not normal Google practise and should one place any value on the back links Google reports? My limited experience tells me that Google recognises links as they are indexed and that this results in shifts in a sites rankings long before the quarterly realignment we all wait for
Yes, it is normal practice for Google to have their own count of my links, and it does affect my serps, but I already rank #1 for the term "article distributor". Every article that is submitted with my software has the phrase "submitted with article distributor" added to the author's resource box. This is in essence the same thing as writing and submitting a bunch of articles myself. The point I was trying to make was that I have no proof that all the links from articles will get counted, but when the backlink export takes place I will be able to see how many links get reported. The bigdaddy datacenters report 21,500 occurances of the phrase currently, so if all of them get counted as a backlink, I should expect to see about 21,000 backlinks after the export. Of course, Google only shows a sampling of backlinks, so I would actually expect less than that, but I should still see considerably more than 47. On the other hand, if I see 50 links instead of 47. I'll have proof that article submissions don't work.