Hey, I wrote a few electronic articles in 2001 for a very popular coding site. The articles viewed a total 7 million and for the keywords on the articles they are now #1 in google. Anyway I think, it's time to create my blog but I am curious about the content, what happens if I also post my articles on my site? Is this a duplicate content for google? I mean the articles are mine and the site gained too much traffic from these since 2001, I am still getting 8-10 emails for these articles every day. I mean will this be a duplicate content if I also post my articles on my new electronic blog? Thanks
Yes, they will be seen as duplicate content because other sites published them first. Google has no way of knowing that you authored them. You should rewrite the articles so that no other site will have the same exact information.
Are you shure this will happen ? I think this duplicate content issue is not solved by google only by knowing whitch website published an article first. I mean, there are a lot of computer illiterate good writers and their content is published on the internet without their aknowledgement. Or, lets say that i don't know what seo is or backlinks etc. and google index other websites with my content before mine, or i make a blog only for personal purposes.. writing for me there, but in the same time publish some of my articles on other websites. It will be really odd that in the moment when i decide to publish my blog with my work it will be banned or go down in the serps. What i am saying is that i think that google is more tollerable with duplicate content because of the big probability that they can do a mistake taking a decision on something like this only based on the age of a page. --------- Sry. for my english.
You should always write different content for your own website rather than one article and then let others republish it. Matt Cutts has talked about google trying to determine who originally published content, but there is no manual review so there is bound to be mistakes. One thing google doesn't like is duplicate content and these articles have already been published on other websites long before the orignal author there is no way for them to know he is the original author and they certainly aren't going to investigate it.