How do articles work?

I'm interested in article submission as a means of generating non reciprocal back links, as many have previously mentioned in these forums. Doesn't each copy of an article get hit by the duplicate content feature such that you just end up with one copy in the SERPS and 1 link? Can't get my head around it.

Thanks

 

I have not seen a site yet that has been penalized by Google for duplicate content. My understanding of their rules is penalties are assessed for identical sites by the same owner. When Google spiders your page they don't just spider the article text... they pick up everything else as well. This means your page with your text, graphics and articles will be unique. If you are still worried about the penalty introduce the articles with an opening paragraph, or create a summary at the bottom or add a famous quote or two on the page that applies to the same topic.

Bonnie

 

My understanding is that the people who pick up your article do exactly what Bonnie said - all the pages that put your article on them will want to avoid the duplication penalty, so they'll stick other junk on there to keep it from kicking in. Still haven't managed to get more than a couple of links from any one article, so I may not be the best to talk to about it though. I think it might make a big difference which topic you're writing about.

 

You should be able to get a lot of links. The internet is too big.

 

There's a huge list of places to post your article in this post

That's one link for every site that posts your article. Then there is the possibility of webmasters using your article on their site... that's more links. I've even had one of my articles sent out in a webmasters newsletter to 8,000 of their subscribers. That's how articles work!

 

I've read a couple of places that it might not hurt to change an article slightly after submitting it to a few article sites. Write the article, submit to a few sites. Write a new paragraph and delete another one, submit to a few more sites.

I imagine this is all mostly speculation, but I assume it couldn't hurt. Then again if you're lazy like me and don't feel like submitting to 50 article sites, just pick the top 5 or so based on pagerank, submit to those, and call it good enough.

I got a couple links posting my article on my new blog at Blogger.com as well.

Good luck!

 

Also, if you do get yourself a blogger.com blog (which takes only a couple minutes to set up), you can post the link to the automatically generated RSS/Atom feed here at DP, and have it included right below your member name.

Not that I think a whole lot of people here really care about my blog, mind you, but I figure more links can't hurt much.

Cheers,
Gary

 

I have my articles all over the place and never noticed any penalty being assessed to me. I recently looked at one of my articles, which was on hundreds of places indexed by Google and others. I selected a decent number of sites and looked at their implementation of my article. Pretty much every site had different styles and thus different html.

I would not waste my time worrying about an article that is only on handful of websites.

Honestly, I probably would not mind getting hit with a penalty if the article was one hundreds of websites or more.

Some recommend changing the copy of the article that you keep and use for yourself.

 

I think this sounds like good advice, I've been doing this myself for some time. Best to be on the safe side I always say ;o)

T