After reading some of the threads in the last couple of days about SE's viewing duplicate articles as 'spammy' when you post the same one on multiple directories.......I've been hunting around for something to make re-writes a little easier. Found a site called jetspinner http://www.spontent.com/spinner/ Anyone familiar with it? Is it worth trying? I want to continue with my article marketing without adversely effecting my SE rankings. thanks
I think when it comes to the topic of duplicate content people really take it out of proportion. I don't think having the same article on three different websites or so would really make a difference to Google, just as long as they are not showing up a hundred times or more as they would if someone was using a spamming bot. I think it's safe to submit to more than one directory, and there are plenty of places to submit your article like http://articlecatcher.com, etc.
A dash of perspective and very helpful thanks. I had been submitting the same article to up to 5 different directories - sometimes just mixing up the resource box but never really changing much else - I will limit this to 3 and be a little more selective in my choice of article directory. thanks again
I am new to this article marketing thingee. I previously avail of Private Label Right (PLR) articles only to find out that there are existing sites having the same content. Also, I submitted my articles to more than three directories as adviced in an ebook I purchased. I would appreciate some advice from you guys. Thanks.
http://www.ezinearticles.com is by far the best site for article submission in terms of traffic and the quality of the back links you get
That was going to me my number one choice : ) then I was going to go with articlegeek free-articles-zone articlecube & the last one I'm still nailing down.
For articles targeting moms maybe try MomArticles com. You won't get much traffic or link strength, but the tight "fit" might be in order for a WAHM. Check out the Recent Blog link above for my post about moms internet usage. I don't have any way of backing up this comment, but I believe you need change up your article a little for every submission. It's very easy for Google to determine whether a site has three copies of the same article over-and-over again. They're really hell bent on reducing the shortcuts and their algorithm looks for patterns. WAHM - are your articles of good quality?
I publish the article on my website first with internal linking. I wait 1 month or until the article is indexed and then submit to directories. I change the title tag and have my keyword phrase as the links pointing back to my site. Then it’s okay to have 400 articles out there. The title is different from your site and the keyword phrase is different from the internal linking you have on your site.
Somehow we need to find the person spreading the disinformation about duplicate content and articles. There is a duplicate content penalty and a duplicate content filter. They are quite different. The penalty is applied when you duplicate the same content acrossed your own website in an attempt to spam the search engines. For example, suppose you make a page titled "Fantastic Widgets", another called "Great Widgets", and yet another called "Stupendous Widgets", and each of these pages has its own url but your shopping cart script serves up the same picture and description for each page (because they really are all the same widget). You do this in hopes that no matter what a searcher Googles, they'll likely find your page. E.g. If they search for Stupendous Widgets, they find your stupendous widgets page, etc. This is obviously spam, and so when Google catches you doing that, they penalize your site. Welcome to oblivion. The duyplicate content filter is applied when multiple sites have the same content. Articles are a great example of this, but even better examples are news stories. The Associated Press (AP) writes a news story and sells it to hundred of websites and newspapers with websites across the globe. Each of those sources publish it on their website. Yet, when I search for the latest AP news story (Wholesale inflation is worst in 27 years http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY?SITE=CAVEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT), I find over 1000,000 results (http://www.google.com/search?source...en&q=Wholesale+inflation+is+worst+in+27+years). If there were a penalty for publishing the same content on multiple domains, don't you think sites like Yahoo! News or MSNBC would have been slapped for it by now? For that matter, if there were penalty for this, couldn't I sink my competition by taking an article or post from their site and submit it to hundreds of other sites? What Google and others do is try to determine the BEST source for that particular article. After all, there can be only One (number one ranking that is). Google uses its mighty servers to try to determine which website should get the honor of being first for that particular information, and obviously you want that to be you. But look at AP.org. Google spiders their site, and indexes their stories, but ap.org NEVER ranks first for its own news stories. Google (oddly imo) does not consider them the best source for news. This doesn't bother the AP since they get paid by people republishing their news, but for schmoes like you and me who ARE trying to rank first for our information, it would be a bad day to have someone rank higher than us for our own content. Unfortunately, I learned this too late, and here's a real world example of why homebizseo's tactic is not a good idea. I wrote an article called "replace your wedding dj with an ipod" for my wife and submitted it to article directories. Yet, if you search for that article on Google, you'll see that my wife's site doesn't even crack the top ten. It's been filtered down and my wife's site is no longer considered to be the best source for that information.