I know unique content is important for good SEO but how unique is unique, I have a site and sometimes I rewrite an old article with some new info or a different slant, this new article is 60-70% new but covers some old ground is this still unique in the SE eyes? I also post articles on ezine articles would the 60-70% unique count as a new article or am I in danger of getting my account stopped for posting the same article twice?
There is no point in which a document becomes unique like i switch being flipped, the more unique content you have in a document the more unique search strings it will be found for. Its like a sliding scale, it doesnt work like XX% classes it as a unique document.
Just write related articles. No sense in submitting essentially the same information twice. I wouldn't expect you to get banned for something so simple, but I wouldn't expect the article to be accepted either. You could try submitting it to another article site, but still the more unique informative articles you create will bring you the better benefit in the long run.
but you have to wonder who reads them thing. technically, every webmaster and SEO is sending articles for free article submission. you'll get low PR from those sites possibly, but if the page is only a 0 ..then you get + .85 of that which would still be 0 If you do a really good article that people would actually read, submit it to a paid article submission. They would have a better chance of getting your article into higher PR and credible news sites. You might get on a page that has a little bit of PR boost in your link back to you . But, you should check those sites ..because if you had your article on one of the main level pages of a giant news site that had a PR 10 , you could technically get nothing from it if they dont want the links to be followed. only PR from other sites technically boost your site. lots of sites block that by putting no follow tags in links. If they do that..you get no PR boost from being on any of their sites,but they might claim that you could get new traffic. Depends what you specifically want 1. traffic 2. PR boost. you'll have to research those sites yourself , or look for a nice article that lists them all. Imagine if about 20 SEO's got together and researched that. Then they could list the article submission sites that give you PR Boost if you get on their page, OR if you would just hope for traffic from people reading the article. In my opinion , more research and awareness should be done into those kinds of things. Since SEOs and webmasters are always being bent to the will and mercy of the larger PR giant sites, it doesn't mean you should have to fly blind and just hope that youre getting PR boost or traffic ..when maybe youre not at all...and those larger PR giants could be charging a standard flat fee to ALL of us ..based on our assumptions that we would get PR boost or traffic. I think if those sites get researched more and that information is made known to SEOs and webmasters...then you'd see some of those bulk flat fee prices coming down. Because maybe 70% of those SEOs wouldnt submit to them ..if they knew there was going to be 0% nothing ..as far as PR boost coming back to them. Hold them to higher standards. AKA= 1. Where will this article be getting placed? is it accessible to the public or buried within your site only to be found by specific long tail phrases and / or only by navigating deeper and deeper into your site? 2A. If my article is paid to be placed on your site , regardless of YOUR PR .. do you allow PR boost back? or will I be doing this strictly for the hope of traffic alone? 2B. If your site will be allowing PR follow bac kto my site, can you tell me how many websites you already link to on an average day? (reason for that is, Google has a math system. a PR 10 website wont be passing you a PR 10 if you're on their site. The maximum per each 1 unit of PR is made into .85 that means a PR of 10 - even if your site was give nthe ONLY link back from that site ..the PR would still only be (1 -.85 ) for a PR 10 * .85 = PR 8.5 That means a site with PR 10 ..can only be a 8.5 to you. That would be the voting score it would give you ONLY if you were the ONLY other link. if it links to 10 other sites besides yours, then divide that to 1/10th your vote becomes PR .85 Which you could easily get from a site that has a PR1 and only you as its link back. Google equation for PR ranking to link sites: PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1) / C(t1) + PR(tn)/C(tn) which is the short math function of all that crap i was just typing above
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60-70% is not very unique. You should aim for at least 90%. 75% means that you have a quarter of the original still there. That is a lot.
Writing content after reading other article -the same thing in your own words or write content from conceptual standpoint which has been not written yet.
in my opinion you can submit to as many directories as you want for any one article but just make sure you don't submit the same articles again. if you submit 10 totally unique articles to 100 article directories if you get approved for all of them you already receive 1000 backlink. It is not that difficult to create 10 good articles. but the link only count when your article page have been indexed and no 'filter' are in effect.
While you might not be banned the article will lose any power to attract if it is a rehash. I was looking at an article site and browsed through a few articles on a topic near and dear to my heart. The first four I read were so disappointing that I started putting together a course on teaching how to write SEO. These might not have been rewritten but all four were so limp, they were a waste of time. I've been watching the SEO process for a a couple of years and the bottom line is that content really is important and the better the content the more attractive your site it. I know that articles do get it noticed but a weak article is not going to motivate me to go to a site. It certainly is not going to motivate me to buy information if the article is an indication of quality. But I must stop ranting about this and reply to your question, you are likely better off in the long run to just write a related article. I believe it is a waste of time to present several versions of the same article. Joanne