Duplicate Content and Squidoo and Hubpages

[yommys01]

Hello Warriors,
just a question. Does Squidoo and hubpages frown on duplicate content? I have just bought a PLR article from a warrior here and would like to use the articles for backlinks from squidoo and hubpages but do these two sites frown on plr articles or rather duplicate content.

[kevinhdavis]

Unique content is always better, but I have used articles from article directories on both sites without any issues. As with any PLR, you are best off rewriting the content. By rewriting, I am not talking about spinning, but actually taking the content and going through the exercise of manually rewriting it yourself.

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by kevinhdavis

Unique content is always better, but I have used articles from article directories on both sites without any issues. As with any PLR, you are best off rewriting the content. By rewriting, I am not talking about spinning, but actually taking the content and going through the exercise of manually rewriting it yourself.

I agree, the more unique you make your articles the better. You will get
results with non-unique articles. Been there, done that. But unique is
the best way to go. Of course, if you want to build an empire for a niche,
unique works will take a lot more effort for anybody. You need a system
to help you with your VRE content. A GOOD article spinner can help there.

HTH

Glenn

[thefluffanutta]

Originally Posted by yommys01

Does Squidoo and hubpages frown on duplicate content? I have just bought a PLR article from a warrior here and would like to use the articles for backlinks from squidoo and hubpages but do these two sites frown on plr articles or rather duplicate content.

HubPages have systems in place to detect and penalise duplicate content.

Squidoo is less strict, but Unique is always best.

[AndyBlackSEO]

Yes, rewrite the article. This will mean that it is unique and your back links will stick. With Squidoo though, check that your lenses are not in WIP mode otherwise your links will be nofollow.

Tip: About a year ago I found a number of related articles for a specific keyword / niche. I chose a paragraph from each one and completely re-written them in my own words to make a brand new article. That one page now brings in between 400 - 800 unique visitors into the website each month. My point is rewrite the article, do your keyword research and include some decent search volume, low competition keywords in there along with related keywords. Make sure the article reads well. Upload to wherever... get a few links to it then forget about it.

Andy

[robdraw]

Good tip Andy, I always take two hours to layout and write the original article but can rewrite it in 15 minutes. Ill bear that in mind for the future.

[Traffic-Bug]

Rewrite the PLR articles and use them. If you use PLR as is you will find there are many existing places that have the same PLR articles published.

[JAIDEEP2959]

Duplicate content is 100% useless in Internet marketing.

Outsource or rewrite articles.

[Steadyon]

Originally Posted by JAIDEEP2959

Duplicate content is 100% useless in Internet marketing.

Outsource or rewrite articles.

This is not strictly true.

There are numerous instances of duplicate content (on different sites) ranking well.

Having said that, original content is best.

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by JAIDEEP2959

Duplicate content is 100% useless in Internet marketing.

Outsource or rewrite articles.

And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, man, what are you doin here?

[jayden.fellze]

Yes, that is really very true. Unique Articles are still the excellent choice, however if you rewrite an article from hubpages or squidoo make sure not to go around the bush or else you will just end up messing the article and your losing the whole point of the article.

Good luck!

[Jenni Mac]

Yommys

You won't get duplicate content past Hubs, if it already exists online they will just flag your hub.

Re-writing is always the way and it doesn't really take that long once you sit down to get it done.

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by JAIDEEP2959

Duplicate content is 100% useless in Internet marketing.

Outsource or rewrite articles.

This is BS. I have had a lot of good traffic from 'duplicate' content on Squidoo.

[lavaleekathy]

Agree with other posters, I don't think there is any way of tracking duplicate content on Squidoo, I don't they're as particular as ezine articles, but it doesn't hurt to tweak your article content a little to ensure that it is a little different to your article content on other sites. If you continually book mark your content with say, social marker.com, you can generate a heap of targeted traffic from your squidoo page for sure. I always add all of my content to squidoo on the chance that vistors will be directed there instead of an artcle directory site. Great thread!

[Daniel Scott]

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, man, what are you doin here?

Is there a point to this?

[RanjithaV]

I have been using the networking profiles at Squidoo and hubpages from quite some time but, never enountered any problem.

There shouldn't be any problem as far as there is no negative rating given by any other visitor.

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Is there a point to this?

The guy said that duplicate content was 'useless'. I pointed to a search where every page is duplicate content and plastered with advertising. Search for any song lyrics and you'll see the same thing. It's my favorite way of pointing out just how lame it is to worry about 'duplicate content'.

[racso316]

great information here.
so it's best to rewrite articles just in case.
someone mentioned an article spinner.
ive heard about article spinning everywhere but don't know what it is.
is it a software used to make articles unique. just by changing some words around?
thanks so much

[vlabroo]

Definitely unique is better. But PLR works well too. Not as stringent as Google either. Even on Google some marketers flourish with duplicate content. But if you have a large number of site a good article spinner would be great.

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

The guy said that duplicate content was 'useless'. I pointed to a search where every page is duplicate content and plastered with advertising. Search for any song lyrics and you'll see the same thing. It's my favorite way of pointing out just how lame it is to worry about 'duplicate content'.

An interesting and very informative (now that you hit me with the brick ) point thanks

[laurelwachtel]

I would agree that your own unique content is always a better alternative, but I have submitted and used articles from existing article directories without any problems. If your using PLR content exclusively, you are always better off starting form scratch and rewriting the content. I always use the PLR as a guide for structure and then rewrite the entire source in my own words. A much easier way of generating new content in my opinion!

[AndyBlackSEO]

If anyone is going to use duplicate content or unchanged PLR then I would at least recommend adding to it, or write some content that will lead into this article. Maybe refer to the article. The more unique content you add to any page, the better your chances of ranking and keeping the page in Googles main index.

[joshtheman]

Creating a unique content is always better then referencing the works of other people. Never tried using duplicate content.

[Nathan Hangen]

Hubpages won't let you use dupe content...Squidoo doesn't care. I like to mix and match.

I've had more success with weebly, knol, and wordpress.com than I have with squidoo or hubpages.

[tdave]

At hug,If someone on HubPages has used your copyrighted content without permission, you can file a copyright complaint.

[umrbd]

I have been working on squidoo from a very long time. They have a very systematic approach to differentiate between quality and crappy content. If you just throw the copied content it will die before becoming alive because a lens is only beneficial when it is featured and you have to fulfill some conditions if you want to make your lens feature which you can't through copy content. Use original articles for marketing on squidoo it can be very beneficial specially if you are selling something on ebay and amazon

[sethczerepak]

Originally Posted by JAIDEEP2959

Duplicate content is 100% useless in Internet marketing.

Outsource or rewrite articles.

Yes, keep believing that. And keep spinning your wheels rewriting it. Meanwhile, I'm making all kinds of money from content that I have published in several places.

[faysal969]

Hubpages may ban your article. They are strict about duplicate content. You should not use the same content in both Hubpages and squido. Use different or rewrite it.

[PriceMaster]

If the big G indexes your Squidoo page before your website, it would definitely think that you have duplicate/copied content on your website, even though it is yours.

[tomcat25i]

Hubpages are quite strict on issue of duplicate content. They have there system and if they find your content as copied or duplicate, they will remove it and also chances are their that they will ban your account. Squidoo lenses doesn't care for these things.