This is a great article about dup content. I see alot of threads asking about dup content so here is a good article discussing it: http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-O...ntent-Penalties-Problems-with-Googles-Filter/ In the article, the author runs an experiment to see whather his site gets credit for his original content or if he gets filtered out by the dup content filter. I am curious if any of you have similar experiences with negative/positive results from the dup content filters on G, MSN, or yahoo.
The article raises some interesting points but I think they key thing that webmasters need to do is have an article on their own site for a while before submitting it to lots of article sites. I have recently been sending a few articles off and I am fairly sure my site will still show up top of the serps. If you need to get the article out quickly then the best thing is to put a link back to your site at the end. At least this way you get backlinks and may avoid the filter that way.