Maybe someone who is really familiar with the topic of duplicate content with regards to link building can shed some light on this subject. When I say duplicate content with regard to link building, I basically mean writing and article and submitting it to multiple directories. Article submission is talked about on a lot of SEO forums and in a lot of SEO related articles and blogs, but so is the dreaded "duplicate content flag". From what I understand, if you write one article, and submit it to many article sites, you don't get any real link juice from it because u get flagged for DC and it might in fact hurt your ranking. That doesn't make sense to me though because what about people who syndicate other peoples articles through RSS feeds or blogs or whatever? Certainly Google doesnt frown upon that right, thats pretty damn organic link building right there. So what is up with this duplicate content stuff, is there a certain amount of duplicates of content that can be on the net before Google flags it? Do they just flag article sites? I'm confused
When you talk about Article directories, it would be considered smart if you actually rewrite the article that you submit. That way it can't be flagged as a duplicate article
I have never understood this. So if you have a website, what stops people from taking your content and putting it on their website with a link back. Isn't that what we want? I think its only bad when people copy the ENTIRE website to theirs. But I am no expert.
You don't want people that are simply copying and pasting your articles. If you have a contest running, for example, you could have them write about the contest and directly copy-paste in the prizes that you listed. This is an alternative to copy-paste'ing the entire post you already wrote about your theoretical contest. Hopefulyl you see what I mean. I don't have any kind of empirical evidence to back this theory, but I think it is pretty well understood that Google among others frowns upon lifted content