Is there a limit to how many sites/pages Google will index with the same article?

Hey,

When submitting articles to different sites... is there a limit to how many will get indexed with the same article? For instances... if you submit to 300 sites... and Google crawls all the sites... will they index the same article for all 300 sites or is there a limit to how many sites they will index for the same content?

Thanks.

 

Google has some logic for detecting and handling duplicate content. They are somewhat secretive about what they do with duplicates, but it's to be assumed that they are just ignored.

 

Well... I know they will index several pages with the same article located on different website... but I am just wondering if there is a limit. See, we are submitting these articles to get backlinks... and so, we need to know if it's pointless to submit to 1000 article sites, because Google will only index a certain number of them...

 

I don't think there is a limit, or article directories will be useless.

 

There is no limit but the sites that publish the article need to surround it with enough unique content for it to be worth anything. So if you are being published on high quality sites that care about their content, you could get hundreds of indexed pages out of it.

If you end up on tons of MFA sites, you probably won't get many pages.

 

I think the duplicate content issue came to a head when a lot of ecommerce sites encouraged affiliates to create exactly the same websites with only the URL with affiliate code as the main difference between the original and the affiliate sites.

I believe the duplicate content is evaluated on the WHOLE PAGE--an exact duplicate of another page somewhere else.

Since articles published in article directories have a lot of other contents in the article page, then, strictly speaking, it is not duplicate content. So you can submit to all article directories and still be indexed.

ManagementWarrior

 

But, can anyone point to an article, that has been indexed on several hundred websites? I just find it hard to believe... that it's possible.

Thanks.

 

Just look at some of the big authors on EzineArticles and do a search for the name in quotes.

 

I think you are right. I just tried to google search some of the article titles I submitted to multiple article directories but the search only yielded results for the most part only in ezinearticles.com.

Since ezinearticles.com is arguably the most popular article directory, it's entirely logical to assume that the site got the first indexing of my article title. After that, the other article directories where my articles were also submitted and published were "ignored" by the search engines for indexing purposes.