Same Article to 100s of Directories - Why its Not Duplicate?

[MervikHaums]

Hey guys,

We hear about spamming and duplicate content from many sources - telling that such pages or pointing sites will get negative effects. If so then why people (even me too) submit the same article to lots of databases?? Isn't it duplicate content? Do you believe that something like 'duplicate gets punishment' really exists??

Feel free to discuss about it. Thanks for your time.

[BenFranklin]

Google came out and said that there is no "duplicate content penalty" HOWEVER they look more favorably on sites with "fresh" content. Meaning that if your site has unique content it will surely have better rankings than if it was a dupe.

[paulgl]

Article directories blow the myth out of the water.

Google loves, indexes, and shows duplicate content.

There is a difference between duplicate content and
malicious duplicate content. One site publishes the same
stuff is not in and of itself bad. In fact, quite common.

Read here: Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help

Paul

[MervikHaums]

Originally Posted by BenFranklin

Google came out and said that there is no "duplicate content penalty" HOWEVER they look more favorably on sites with "fresh" content. Meaning that if your site has unique content it will surely have better rankings than if it was a dupe.

Thanks. Always people care about their website's content. So even if the content is copied, they try to alter it. But I am asking about the quality of the links we get while we submitting same thing to lots of other sites.

[TrafficMystic]

to be honest i've only found it worth submitting to the top 10 article directories for backlinks and to help rank.. the unranked and obscure ones have been a total waste of time for me..

[Jacob Martus]

Originally Posted by MervikHaums

Thanks. Always people care about their website's content. So even if the content is copied, they try to alter it. But I am asking about the quality of the links we get while we submitting same thing to lots of other sites.

Actually if it's not your article you should refrain from altering it. That is illegal I believe.

[Shinxware]

You should only be careful of the internal duplicate content of your website.

[Aristodemos]

We've found that having duplicate content on our own websites to be a bad thing.

BUT, we've seen advantages from posting duplicate material on outside websites. I think the positives of doing the latter outweigh the negatives.

[MervikHaums]

Originally Posted by Jacob Martus

Actually if it's not your article you should refrain from altering it. That is illegal I believe.

Yeah, that's true. But do you think that all these article writers are providing unique articles. No, never. It's all either by referring other articles or by re-creating it.

[Jacob Martus]

Originally Posted by MervikHaums

Yeah, that's true. But do you think that all these article writers are providing unique articles. No, never. It's all either by referring other articles or by re-creating it.

That doesn't make it ok for you to do it. People in my neighborhood sell crack. Should I start doing the same?

To answer your question. Don't worry about duplicate content on other sites. Just pay attention to it on your own site. That's the only issue you should be concerned about. There's evidence all over the internet to support that statement.

[webdevelopmentcompany]

As per my knowledge duplicate content on site will generate negative impression. Regarding article submission it becomes unique due to the title and the links that is place in article. Search engine will count the number of such article site and treated as backlink if the site is dofollow.

[Abhinandangarg]

Originally Posted by webdevelopmentcompany

As per my knowledge duplicate content on site will generate negative impression. Regarding article submission it becomes unique due to the title and the links that is place in article. Search engine will count the number of such article site and treated as backlink if the site is dofollow.

I agreed, Duplicate content on your site is a matter not article submission

[MervikHaums]

Originally Posted by StupidCupid

Duplicate content is just a myth. I have 45 blogs for promotion purposes and serve as my personal article directories. Almost everyday, I submitted 1 article to all these blogs all pointing to my main sites. Almost 90% of them got indexed by google without any problem.

Exactly. You're very right. It's just another fallacy telling about content uniqueness. According to me - it has to be cared only with our website's content.

[MervikHaums]

Originally Posted by StupidCupid

If you are the only person who publish your article multiple times (even hundreds), that's not a problem. But when someone republish your article even once, that's the problem. Because we don't want other people to steal our work....so we are complaining of article duplication - but in reality, the problem is stealing, not duplication...

Yeah, I was talking about the same person who is gonna submit his own website's article several times. Thanks for your reply.

[Crew Chief]

Most IMers "Confuse Duplicate" content with "Syndication" I'm in the process of completing a run, "Part automated and part manually of syndicating a dozen articles to over 365 sources.

Each source is a point of syndication and they are "All" getting the exact same copy. That my friends IS NOT duplicate content; that is called syndication!

Type this search term into Google without the quotes, "Siblings brawl over butter in mac and cheese"

Did you notice how many tims that SAME article has been syndicated? Did you also notice how many times it was indexed by G?

That's syndication at its finest!

Giles, the Crew Chief

[hotlinkz]

Submitting the same article to several directories is not duplication, it's syndication. This will generally give more "eyeball" exposure to your articles.

Generally, Google will index most or all duplicate articles and give priority to the most favorable copy of the article it finds.

paulgl provided a link to factual information that proves how Google feels about duplicate content and their interpretation of duplicate content. Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help

[evi]

It's article syndication, however according to my experience they won't help you much on increasing your ranking.

[Crew Chief]

Originally Posted by evi

It's article syndication, however according to my experience they won't help you much on increasing your ranking.

Hmm, that's amazing seeing that I use it to help me dominate some fiercely competitive markets... not niches, but markets.

Did you ever give any thought to the possibility that you are doing something wrong?


Giles, the Crew Chief

[raphnexx]

The solution for this is article spinning and give credit who made the article to prevent plagiarism.

[stephanrobert]

Yes there is a concept of duplicate content. But your article at 100 directories will not be considered as a duplicate entry.

[mithil]

Originally Posted by stephanrobert

Yes there is a concept of duplicate content. But your article at 100 directories will not be considered as a duplicate entry.

How can you say this with such a confidence?

[battery4laptop]

Duplicate content on your site is a matter not article submissio.

[seoforu]

Yes you can submit to as many article directories as you can,you won't get penalised for that.

[MervikHaums]

Originally Posted by raphnexx

The solution for this is article spinning and give credit who made the article to prevent plagiarism.

Originally Posted by stephanrobert

Yes there is a concept of duplicate content. But your article at 100 directories will not be considered as a duplicate entry.

yeah, on site content we should take care of copied content. In case of article submissions, I think spinning can give a bit more effectiveness than the same article.