Can you please explain me this. You mean if Google finds my article at my site first it will consider it my own content and then it doesn't matter for me on how many sites it will find the article in the future?
I just starting writing articles and have been surprised at how many sites pick them up. In my opinion if you write short informational articles, people will post them. I stay away from a blatant sales pitch and anything that remotely looks spammy.
To anyone writing articles, Please feel free to add articles to www.freezine-articles.com. and while you are there check if anyone is asking for content to be written. It's a PR3 and SEO Friendly . And if you host an article site list I would really be appreciative if you could add the site. Thanks mark
I believe if the article is "cached" on your site first, then the dup penelty will only apply to others who have used your articles.
Does anyone know if this is really how it works? I'm planning on submitting a ton of articles for my new site (first one - yay!) but I'm still confused on whether I should also post them on my site. Thanks in advance for the help.
The best way to handle this is to use some unique content exclusively on your own site and then use some unique content for submissions to bring in traffic and build link popularity. This double proned attack means you attack on both fronts and you don't need to worry about any of the points brought up in this thread
Yeah, that's how I figured it would work. I was just trying to take the lazy way out and only write 1 article for submissions and my site. Thanks for the info.
The most logical would be to have any article you write be posted and cached by google before you submit to the free article places. This should assure that weight is given to your site above theirs. And of course write certing articles only for your website, and do not release those. And make use of http://www.copyscape.com/ I think they rock.
I think once in a while you need to search for your article - to find those clever people who remove your URL, make it inactive and/or post your email alone away from the article just far enough to let it go unnoticed. I've seen this with my articles.