Say I write a bunch of articles and submit them to article directories before the search engines have indexed the original copies at my site, and the spiders pick up the submitted versions on them on other sites before they pick up my version, would they then penalize me for copying the article site's content? I'm an independent games developer and my company site always gets #1 for search of our game names in all search engines. I have a feeling this is because our site is always the first to show the game's listing, a good month or so before any affiliates get hold of it. Quite often our affiliates will have much higher link popularity than our own (by a factor of 10 or more), but we still get #1. The affiliates will in general use the same or similar sales pitch. This leads me to believe the first instance of a new set of text on a site is given greater weight than later copies of it on other sites. Does anyone agree/disagree with me? Do you think I should wait to get each article fully indexed before submitting? (the articles are from an non games site)
Hi Nexic, I'd suggest that you write (or have written) different articles for submission to the directories than those that appear on your website - this way, your website content remains "exclusive", and you won't need to worry about duplicate content issues. Probably not the answer you were looking for, but I've heard repeatedly from sources that I trust that it's the best way to go. HTH, Sam
Hi When submitting your articles to the article directories, you can also put you bio and a link to your website. This will also help SE to find your site from article directories and index your site. This will in no way duplicate the content when the author of the content remains same.
You will not get penalized for submitting articles to article directories. If you plan on publishing the article on your own site, do that a month or two before submitting them to article directories. See this thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=759173&postcount=17
Hey All The thing I do is to add a comment above the article that is a couple of paragraphs long on my site ... something that relates to that article Then I add another one under my resource box which changes the way googies looks at it alot ... you can even do this with articles which you find that have reprint rights ... put them on your site and make a comment above the title and below their box... Google has no way of telling when an article begins and when it finishes Just DONT put anything between the title and the resource box - that is illegal I dont know much - but its working for me If you need articles or if you need a great place to submit them you can check out submitcontent.com
It doesn't matter if you add lots of stuff before and after the article or not. Google will still recognize it as duplicate content and possibly filter it (not penalize it) from search results. See this reference: http://www.google.com/apis/reference.html#2_3 Of course, adding more text before and after the article does help somewhat because you are adding content to your site. More content means more chances to match the search term, so it will help a bit, but it won't prevent the article from being recognized as a duplicate content snippet.
Is the rss feed included before the page is served via php, perl, asp, or some other server side language, or is the text included after the page is served via javascript, vbscript, or some other client side language? Any feed that is included server side will be parsable by a search engine spider. Anything done client side will not be spiderable.
I have found it to be effective in getting the article found better by adding more keywords in the article description and in my comments .. for example if the article is about buying flowers online .. I use that alot in my summary and comments ... gets them found ALoT BETTER Before you scoff at this please try it .... Mr Crow
Oh, no scoffing! It makes perfect sense. Since many sites place the summary/teaser on more than one page (like an index and in the article itself), loading that part of the article with your keywords means that even if the article is not returned as a search result, perhaps the index of articles (the bit that contains the teasers) will be returned.