I was wondering about what google's algorithm or policies on when it comes to articles that are completely unique (only displayed on one url), or if they are spread around the web on 2 or more urls. Please help me out here. I have written about 6, one thousand word articles for my magazine so far. It is an online e-zine: http://www.Lucidly.com. Anyways, I was wondering which is better to do: 1. Keep the articles only visible on my site and to subscribers so the content remains uniquely mine. 2. Submit the articles to places like http://www.ezinearticles.com with a link to my site in the article. I know sometimes search engines will give you a lower ranking or ignore certain content in regards to determining your ranking if your content isn't original, which then my articles would no longer be. Do you see what I am getting at? Is it better to post my articles on other sites like ezinearticles ( in addition to my own site) and sacrifice the search ranking (not even sure if it does this so I'd like some insight on this), or is it better to keep the articles uniquely on my website?
You mean rewrite the original article, or just write a completely write a new one? What would the pros/cons be of option #1 and option #2?
Rewrite a new one. The con of using the same article on your own site is that you are duplicating content, even if your site is the orginal source. Not that it would be a major issue but you could end up having one of the article sites rank higher than your own site, its not common but it can happen. The two main factors of submitting articles is to gain back links from other sites that use your article and in turn these sites can send you traffic. So if someone reads your article on another site and click trhough to your site and finds the same article it doesnt really give you much credit for being unique, if you know what I mean? People use different methods when it comes to using article submission but the above are factors that I take into consideration so I use a seperate article to for the submissions.
So google will look at my site more kindly if there are a bunch of unique articles on my site, rather than if the articles are duplicates and i get all the linking from the sites that use my article?
What if i have some unique articles on my site along with a lot of articles that aren't unique, does that affect anything or does google just count the specific non-unique articles less? I say this because I have about 150 articles (non-original, from places that allow you to repost them on your site if you include all links and everything). So I have 150 articles that are non-original, and then I have about 20 articles (coming out with at least 6 new ones each month) which are as of now completely original. Do those 150 non-original articles affect anything else, or does it just mean google looks at those specific pages differently? Also, on a side note, is it okay if I post the same article or tidbits of the article multiple times on my own site, will that affect anything? Or does google rank stuff like this by which url it is coming from?
To be honest I couldnt say for sure as I dont this so I have no experience in mix-matching new articles with others. I would guess though they would throw less weight against the articles that have been taken from other sources. If you post one of your articles more than once on your site then yes Google will see it as duplicate content and could be dangerous for the site. Recently Google has been having issues with sites that have duplicate content. Using a tidbit for an article that appears elsewhere on your site should be ok though, you could always link back to the full article.
What I thought was that since you articles have been on your site for a while now (im guessing) that they count your site as the original place. And then if you submit it to ezinearticles.com they know you put it on there from your site and not vice versa. (You find on ezinearticles then post on your site) Get it? Also if you change up the article a bit I thought you wouldn't have problems from google. These were my impressions from the research I've done I might be wrong tho.