Seo repeated material

[surge700]

Hi,

Just a quick seo question:

For article distribution, is it advisable to distribute exact same articles to multiple sources?

e.g. i write an article, should i just submit it to ezine articles, or should i submit it to 10 article websites?

Will it be better for seo to get content spread further, or worse because i am submitting exactly the same articles, word for word (can engines pick up on that?)...

Thanks!

[BenKirkwood]

You'll have to be aware of the perceived penalties for duplicate content. My approach is to syndicate on multiple article sites but each has a different version. Potentially this can take a while - I use TheBestSpinner (http://thebestspinner.com/) to provide faster variations of articles, still some work required but the product learns and makes things faster the more you do.

1. Create original article - publish to your own website
2. Create multiple variations with TheBestSpinner (usually 10)
3. Check each variation and make sure they are completely readable
4. Publish each variation to an article site
5. Make sure you include links in the article pointing back to the original article on your site and/or your site pages

Ben

[jamiec8]

no need to spin, publish the content on your own site and add a canonical tag to show the original version, links from the other article sites still pass value etc. (whatever value that is)

[OldWelshGuy]

When an academic publishes a paper, does he write a different paper for each place it is published? Nope he doe not. So that is one ange to consider, and that is that if you are an authority and you write articles, you would be EXPECTED to have the same article across multiple sites. Then there is the other angle of SEO where you want to maximise your link benefit.

Here is the thing, it shouldn't be either or, it should be both.

And forget the comment about duplicate content penalty. you will not get penalised for having identical content across domains you don't own. That is an old wives tale ;)

Duplicate content on your own site CAN cause issues, but again not a penalty UNLESS you are serving up hundreds or thousands of identical pages on different urls. (BEWARE, some scripts use redirects which allow this, and can be exploited by unscrululous competitors).

[davek17]

Hi People

I wanted to post here rather than start a new thread, because its about repeated content. I agree that repeated content can't penalise you, I mean how do you actually stop someone from copying or linking to your original work and its kind of how the Internet should work anyway.

however i'm trying to play devils advocate here a bit to see if I can get some opinion out of people.

If I have a business blog, and a personal blog where perhaps the content might be repeated on a more regular basis, does this get caught? I'm obviously after more backlinks here but is it really any different from publishing on your own blog and then on PRWeb?

DaveK17

[irishguru]

Ah I wouldn't really waste my time so much on this but rather add all the articles to your own site and give your site better appeal and a bigger size.

Which when it's a bigger size gives your site more weight in the SERPS and a couple of good strong backlinks will give you all you need.

For example.

I have a blog with 300 pages. It only has about 10 links.

Yet when I make a new post it can reach the front page of Google and stay there forever - well at least almost forever :D

I do know telling you this will probably not make sense because you maybe read all that jibberish about SEO out there but if you can take an understanding of it then you'll be a better SEO soon enough. :D

[davek17]

Hi Irish

It makes perfect sense to me and I do agree! I do a lot of SEO, i'm not an SEO consultant though but its at the heart of any success we have had with our web business. I htink we face the same frustration as everyone else, which is other websites with 10k links that just feature top for everything and other sites with less links featuring above us but seem to use PRweb or articles which just repeate what they say in every article.

You read all about repeated stuff not being counted by Google but then you see it working in front of your eyes! I htink this could be an opportunity though for a well written article pumped out the same way.

Our blog gives us way more links than anything else and is slowly but surely winning the marathon but I really want to try and see if I can boost our links too just to try and match the purchase link boys as I dont care what anyone says about lots of low PR links, get enough and they do work for you.

[Smarter Webdesign]

You'll have to be aware of the perceived penalties for duplicate content. My approach is to syndicate on multiple article sites but each has a different version. Potentially this can take a while - I use TheBestSpinner (http://thebestspinner.com/) to provide faster variations of articles, still some work required but the product learns and makes things faster the more you do.

1. Create original article - publish to your own website
2. Create multiple variations with TheBestSpinner (usually 10)
3. Check each variation and make sure they are completely readable
4. Publish each variation to an article site
5. Make sure you include links in the article pointing back to the original article on your site and/or your site pages

Ben

I must admit, this method works for me :)

I am not a professor writing an article about something and writing a Press Release I am an SEO guy trying to get people to a website in any way I can.