Is duplicate content a myth ? When the same article is submitted to different directory is it considered duplicate content? I would have to say no. That is unless the sites you are submitting to are mirror sites. All the rest of the content on each site that go's along with the article you submitted would indeed make you article look different to the search engines, providing you use anchor text in you links so they will all look different. That would be my opinion. What do you think? Free Article submitter
yes and no... different site layout with same text is seen differently by search engines. But it also depends on the layout, if you split text in different tables it might even look unique to search engines.
It is for the most part a myth. The fear of duplicate content came when people started making sites over and over with all the same content. It is also a problem with those who fill there site with nothing but duplicated content from other sites. Google will often flag these types of sites as spammy and de-index them. If you use some duplicated articles along with some original content that is not posted elsewhere, there is not a problem. The days of buying 50 domains wand posted all the same content on all of them is over.
With everybody and their cousin vying for the first couple of pages in a search, it means the odds are so damn low of making it, it ain't even funny. On top of that, many who click on links are window shoppers. You get visitors, you get buyers, but it ain't all that great. With that said, as a writer, I could care less about "duplicate content." I think it is a joke. Who cares. You can gain thousands of readers from multiple sites, perhaps tens of thousands if you do it right, while only a couple of hundred, if that, from a few search engines. That is, if you are lucky enough to land on page one or two.
I can say that duplicate content seems to have no affect on PR. I recently found a website that republished one of my Ezine Articles articles and that page was a PR4 - it had no other content on the page except for the navigation. This same article is on numerous different sites and blogs.