Article publishing and duplicate content

[Chris Kaday]

I was thinking of getting someone to publish articles for me (I have no trouble writing them but would save the pain of coping with all the different formats etc.) but after reading some of the posts on this subject I am confused. It appears that getting articles published is a good idea – gets you up the listings or is not a good idea – duplicate content so you are penalized by Google. Which is it please and at what point is duplicate article content a problem?

Thanks everyone

Chris Kaday

 

[JustOneUK]

No problem publishing articles. What you can do if you have the "frighteners" is publish a short version of the article, so the full version remains on your website and is unique.

regards
James.

 

[Aspect Investments]

The best way to tackle this Chris is to submit your articles to Ezine Articles or Go Articles or both. Make them slighlty different as they check for duplicates. Other site owners regularly nick content from these sites. So in theory you get your article published across the web for free.

You can also publish them on your blog as an RSS feed, and submit your feeds to feed sites.

If you take on an article submitter, he will just submit them all to all the free articles directories that are provided by Article Dashboard. And that is a total waste of time.

 

[Bathead]

If you take on an article submitter, he will just submit them all to all the free articles directories that are provided by Article Dashboard. And that is a total waste of time.

Very true. Articles should not be taken lightly and as part of an overall SEO plan. There are some good paid for resources too.

regards,
Mick

 

[Chris Kaday]

Ah that is a good idea James thank you

I also assume 'article' does not have to be a mighty piece as people have relatively short attention spans. Presumably the more focused the better.

Chris Kaday

No problem publishing articles. What you can do if you have the "frighteners" is publish a short version of the article, so the full version remains on your website and is unique.

regards
James.

 

[Bathead]

Ah that is a good idea James thank you

I also assume 'article' does not have to be a mighty piece as people have relatively short attention spans. Presumably the more focused the better.

Chris Kaday

Your articles can be as long or short as you like but they will probably be better received if they are short and concise on a specific topic. That also means that you can have a greater flow of articles, generating interest for people to come back and see subsequent ones.

regards,
Mick

 

[Chris Kaday]

Yes good point Mick

Thank you

Chris Kaday

 

[SupaMax]

Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this topic....We have hundreds of articles on our snooker site and a huge amount of content that could easily be edited into article format. Am I right in saying that it is not a wise idea to submit the same article to many different article publishing sites?

I see a couple of sites mentioned above but can anyone recommend the best sites. I think it's time for us to get some of our material out there!

Cheers for now,

Neil

 

Duplicate content is deemed about 85% similar content.

now most web pages will have other content on then in terms of links other copy.titles ,tags ,e.t.c .

so the likelyhood of reaching the 85% is pretty slim IMHO

Earl

 

[Chris Kaday]

Sorry not quite with you on this one Earl

If Neil me and others post (copy) the precise same article on a number of sites surely the content even for search engine purposes will be very near 100%. Also how many times can this be done without penaliy? I realise one cannot be precise about this. Many thanks

Chris

 

[SupaMax]

I guess my question is 'Is there anything stopping me from submitting the same article to lots of different article sites'? I've got articles lined up to be submitted but I'm wondering whether I need to pick and choose which article to submit where.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

Sorry not quite with you on this one Earl

This might help explain better Chris

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-avoid-the-google-duplicate-content-filter/2034/


more reading here

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...GGLG:en&q=google+duplicate+content+percentage

Earl

 

[rss]

You can submit the same article to many article sites. Thousands of people do this with no problems.

It's when you use automatic submission programs that submit your content to hundreds, even thousands of sites that often have been set up just to please you, the customer that things get a bit murky.

The majority of these sites will be useless. They get extremely little, if any traffic, and their PR is very poor, meaning you will not benefit from having your articles uploaded to these sites.

Many of these sites also have exactly the same content, which is what Google and other search engines don't like. It's basically the same web site on the net over and over again, which is no use to anyone.

It is usually these sites that will be punished for duplicate content. If links to your site are common on these 'sites', then apparently you can be penalized too.

I've heard of this happening a couple of times, but in all honesty, the chances are extremely remote at the moment.

 

[Bathead]

Why not have a page with an article plus some more textual content on the site if you are worried about the %, and when that article is released it contains a link back to the site as the indicator of the source of the article?