I originally posted this in another popular forum and got no feedback, I would love to hear your comments. Like most avid SEO types I actively create keyword rich and compelling articles that I submit through PRLog containing a backlink to my site. I have a domain that I was not doing too much with so I decided to make it an experimental site so I could explore Joomla and its plugins in relative safety so I could then apply it to my other sites when I got it figured out. However I decided to post my articles on this site, the same ones I submitted to PRLog just copied and pasted with the accompanying backlink. I was hoping I would get some benefit from getting a backlink from another domain. Did I inadvertently start a link farm? I watch my sites (like a hawk), I'm aware of my competitions activities and I check my logs very regularly and notice when Google pays me a visit. After my experimental site www.creationdelsol.net was indexed I immediately saw a one too two placement drop in my SERPs for the keywords I was focusing on in my articles. Now I know whenever I submit a new article, my SERPs take a hit for a week or so then bounce back strong. But after reprinting my articles I haven't seen much of a bounce back. Was this a good idea reprinting my articles? Or should I remove this abomination?
No link farm as far as I can tell but it is duplicate content. When Google notices the article posted in more than one place it won't index anything but the original article. Since the newest content on your site isn't indexed you take a hit in the rankings. No harm continuing as far as I can tell but there will be no value SEO wise (by design). Hope this helps
The articles links, especially when they are exactly copies of each other would not be that great, even if your articles appear on tens of websites and directories.
Do you guys think there is any net benefit by having the link to my main sites from a separate domain, even though they are reprinted articles? I could care less about creationdelsol.net (well... I would not want it to be blacklisted) it is just my "do whatever I want" domain and I though it might as well benefit my other sites in some way.