Question about submitting articles to article directories (ezinearticles.com, etc.)

I just finished writing an article that I have on my site.

I now want to submit the exact same article to article directories, such as ezinearticles.com to help with SEO and to help bring in more traffic to my site.

My question is: Wouldn't Google count this as duplicate content, and possibly penalize my site?

If so, what would be an easy way around this?

Also, another question: If an article passes Copyscape, does that mean it won't be considered as duplicate content to Google? Or does Google have its own separate algorithm to identify duplicated content?

Thanks!

 

I am new to this myself, but my understanding is that even the article directroies don't want duplicated content.

I am trying to "syndicate" my articles making them around 30% different. Different titles, different names, maybe slightly different wording in the introductory paragraph that kind of thing

 

Yes, Google will consider it as Duplicate content . So you need to use different articles for every directory, else use a service like this -
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=338432

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Thanks
Ishan

 

NO they won't panelize your site for simple reason. It would be so easy to crush your competition by posting their articles on other sites.

But the article on ezinearticles will be treated as duplicate content. I suggest making atleast minor changes in article. Prepare one version of your article for your site and another for articles directories.

 

Hmm, what would you consider "minor changes"?

Thanks to all who have posted.

 

Changes like :

1.) Changing words with words having similar meanings.
2.) Changing phrases.
3.) Changing positions of paragraphs.

etc

 

You do not need to worry about penalty. However, tweaking the articles help to minimize duplicate content.

 

0.5. ) Change the title.

 

Well in a nutshell you need to rewrite the content so that two articles have different wordings and title. So one article for one directory, personally I just submit to two directories so I do not do much tweaking.

 

I've probably written 60? articles over the last 2 years.

In general, one article, well distributed will net me about 30 visible inbound links in google & another 40 appear in the 'supplemental results' after a few weeks.

But, if you tweak (spin) the article enough it becomes potentially a whole new one.

Takes about 45 minutes-1 hr. to do spin it right, but the payoff can be decent. Look at link #2 in my sig for a tool to do that.

 

The usual advice (and this is what I do) is post the article on my site and wait for it to get indexed before submitting it to article directories. I believe that by doing this, my site is seen as the original source, and therefore the authority site for that particular article.

Consider the idea of RSS feed snippets, or when someone quotes a long article from another site....This should not hurt the original site.

 

No it wont get penalized but its always good to submit different articles .... A lil tweaking here and there should do the trick ...

 

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain !

 

With the article you have one your site, make a duplicate of it and then modify it so that it is not a duplicate. You have to practically re-write it all. You should then use this modified article on the article directories.

Also copyscape is nothing to do with Google. Google has their own algorithum. I don't think you will really see Google giving copyscape their search engine software and they way they work out if content is duplicate or not.

Also, just don't use copyscape as just like Google, they don't have every single site on the web in their database.

 

Use JetSpinner to spin the articles. It is free of cost and will create 100s of unique versions of the article you supply automatically and use JetSubmitter to submit each one of them to a separate article directory.

Here it is http://www.articlesnatch.com/jetspinner/

 

Rewrite your article to about 60% different.. then submit to article directories. that's what i do.

 

I suggest writing a unique article for the directories only, changing the article by making it unique for each different directory.

 

Don't use jetspinner. jetspinner is useless, when I wrote articles with "{word1|word2}" type, then I clicked saved&jetspin it, the web page didn't want to load. It did not happen when I wrote only a normal and plain article but when I wrote what they told me to do (with "{" and "}"), then I clicked "saved&jetspin it" button, didn't work at all. I do rewrite manually because all of article softwares is expensive (except jetspinner but it didn't work)

 

I use slightly different articles to several directories unless it's an article I know will pull great traffic numbers. (for example, an article I've pre tested)

Don't worry about the dupe content unless you copied the article from your site. Even then you have little to worry about if the page you copied it from is already indexed.

TxDon

 

Thats not really true now is it?