EzineArticles Duplicate Content

[Scott Ames]

Ok... Let me be clear on EzineArticles rules for duplicate content. I had believed that one could not use an article that was published on another site, but after reading all the rules I may be wrong.

Editorial Guidelines For Submitting Quality Articles To EzineArticles.com

From what I read, I believe you can use articles that you wrote, if they exist on another site.

See rule 1. b.

They don't want duplicate articles in on their site. IE: Changing a few words.
They don't want articles that are from PLR packs with different authors

This leads me to believe that if you have written an article, put it on your site or blog, then submitted to EzineArticles, that's ok. However, they will find it when they do a duplicate search, so how do they know if its PLR or not?

Of course no matter the editorial rules they can always reject the article under this "

It is the EzineArticles.com Team's sole decision as to whether your article is published and for how long. There are no guarantees made that your article(s) will be published. Quality matters. We reserve the right to remove your article(s) and/or membership account at any time for any reason. After your first 30 days of membership, if you didn't submit any articles that we were able to accept and publish, we may review your account for termination."


Thoughts?

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

This leads me to believe that if you have written an article, put it on your site or blog, then submitted to EzineArticles, that's ok.

Yes, indeed. There's no possible question about that.

Most of the articles I write for clients are posted initially on their own blogs/sites and only subsequently submitted (unedited) to and published at EZA. And that's true of all the articles I write for myself.

I can't comment on your other question, I'm afraid, except to observe that I'm sure they don't want any PLR material.

[tommen]

So you publish the exact same article on your blog first, let Google index it, and then you submit it to Ezinearticles?

[Alexa Smith]

It's all here.

[la dominatrix]

I write my articles on my blog and then post them to Ezine articles. Whewre you come acropper is if you are submitting articles as Fred Bloggs@gmail.com and the original site is Michelle Smith. If it looks like you then they will accept. Why waste a good article on a directory when it has not been posted on your blog
La dominatrix

[tommen]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It's all here.

Hi Alexa, Thanks for the link.I just read the thread but did not get any smarter.Some people say "first to ezine articles, then on blog" others the other way around.I have always submitted original articles to ezine articles and then re-written them on my blog.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by tommen

Some people say "first to ezine articles, then on blog" others the other way around.

Come on, Tom - it's not that difficult to see who in that thread knows what they're talking about and who's simply regurgitating widespread misinformation, surely?! (Although, given the speed with which you got through such a long thread ... !). I promise I don't mean to be rude, but if one's going to give all opinions equal weight, how can one ever learn anything?!

Originally Posted by tommen

I have always submitted original articles to ezine articles and then re-written them on my blog.

So have most people.

[alexanderberson]

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Ok... Let me be clear on EzineArticles rules for duplicate content. I had believed that one could not use an article that was published on another site, but after reading all the rules I may be wrong.

Editorial Guidelines For Submitting Quality Articles To EzineArticles.com

From what I read, I believe you can use articles that you wrote, if they exist on another site.

See rule 1. b.

They don't want duplicate articles in on their site. IE: Changing a few words.
They don't want articles that are from PLR packs with different authors

This leads me to believe that if you have written an article, put it on your site or blog, then submitted to EzineArticles, that's ok. However, they will find it when they do a duplicate search, so how do they know if its PLR or not?

Of course no matter the editorial rules they can always reject the article under this "

It is the EzineArticles.com Team's sole decision as to whether your article is published and for how long. There are no guarantees made that your article(s) will be published. Quality matters. We reserve the right to remove your article(s) and/or membership account at any time for any reason. After your first 30 days of membership, if you didn't submit any articles that we were able to accept and publish, we may review your account for termination."


Thoughts?

Ok.
Basically how it works is if you have a blog and you write the article and want to post that article on ezine, then post that article to ezine first and then post it on your blog.
Ezine usually takes time to approve it, might take couple days to a week but it shouldnt be a problem.
Even if you post your article to your blog and then submit to ezine , i didnt find any problems doing that.

How they check that? We may never know. They definitely got some high tech system to filter them out.

Its only if you copy someone elses article and try to rearrange the words.., they will know(NOT ALWAYS if you know how to do it) but most times they will know. And if you keep doing it and they keep getting you caught then you might get banned from ezine which nobody wants.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by alexanderberson

Basically how it works is if you have a blog and you write the article and want to post that article on ezine, then post that article to ezine first and then post it on your blog.

Yep ... that's exactly how it works for all the people who know no better.

[alexanderberson]

Just for that one i will give you a THANK YOU

[Kelly Verge]

Always post to your site first. As long as the pen name on your site matches the pen name on EZA, you're fine. I mistakenly tried to post a few articles once without first creating a matching pen name and they were rejected. They accepted them after I explained and created a matching pen name.

Think about it a bit - what are you really trying to get out of your articles?

Backlinks? You'll get those regardless of when you post to EZA, so that's no reason to post there first.

Traffic? Traffic will come in from your articles even if you post to EZA second. I'd recommend linking to a different post/article on your web page for a better visitor experience, but that's another subject.

Search Engine Ranking? If you post to EZA first, your article there will tend to outrank the article on your page (Google will see it as the original). It will rank OK for a brief time, but that ranking won't last for long. On the other hand, if you post to your site first, Google will see your site as the original content. The EZA article still might outrank your page for a bit, but if you continue to build backlinks (you are doing other backlinking, right?), your page will climb as the EZA article falls. Perhaps the results are a little slower, but they're much longer-lasting.

Long-term results are what you're looking for, right?

[JayXtreme]

:: sigh ::

Alexa, I applaud you for having the strength to carry on with this...lol... it gets difficult after the 100th time..

Anyone who is undecided on this topic should read the thread that Alexa linked to.

But,

The long and short of the whole discussion is:

If your name is on the article, you can post it to EZA whenever you want to. No matter where it has been first.

My advice is to put it on your own site first, no matter what else you do with it.

Peace

Jay

[Troy_Phillips]

I always publish my article on my site first .

Actually I publish two articles to my site

Keyword for my sub page titles

My-site.com/keyword
My-site.com/key-word

I then publish these exact articles to EZA and several other directories .

EZA article one points to my-site article two

EZA article two points to my -site article one

All the articles for the other directories are done the exact same way .

I then turn my articles into as many different formats as possible and submit them to their respective venues .

I do change the titles when I am re-purposing my articles into other formats . This is not for fear of duplicate content .

If you get the links back to the different formats ... you can have several spots on google 1 . People will not click on the same title over and over again .

[Scott Ames]

What about posting the article on your site and on EzineArticles at the same time? I can do it with two computers and if I do it just right, they are both within seconds of each other.





{kidding}

[Ghalt]

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

What about posting the article on your site and on EzineArticles at the same time? I can do it with two computers and if I do it just right, they are both within seconds of each other.





{kidding}

I sighed, until I saw the {kidding}.

Got me.

[Business&SelfDevelopment]

If your serious about marketing your blog or site the best way to go about submitting articles is to write a 500 word original article and post it on your blog. Then rewrite the same article so that 70% is unique or better yet, write a new article on the same subject and submit it to the ezines.

I usually have 3 articles covering the same keyword and topic. 2 of them are posted on 4 different ezines within 2 weeks of each other and the third I put on my site. I post first on ezinearticles as they have the best page rank so I want them to have "the original article" and the other ezines to have duplicates.

Hope this helps

[dv8]

This topic again?!?!?!?!

[Scott Ames]

Originally Posted by dv8

This topic again?!?!?!?!

Yup.

It's a forum, not a knowledge base. Just because others are sick of it doesn't mean it can't be discussed.

[Eric Lorence]

It's my understanding that all the uproar is about "spun" articles on the EZA site itself.

Particularly spun articles with exactly the same information resorted, then submitted repeatedly.

Also a crack down on any mention of "spinning", "plr" and other article spamming ... err - "marketing" techniques in the sig.

[metafever]

For article submissions to be effective its not enough to put a few links inside the author bio pointing back to your site....be sure to link enough keywords throughout the article so the SE's know "keyword A" is what your site should be ranked for. Some think that a link back to your site is sufficient. When submitting articles, follow all of the same SEO rules you normally would in optimizing your site.

[JayXtreme]

Originally Posted by Business&SelfDevelopment

If your serious about marketing your blog or site the best way to go about submitting articles is to write a 500 word original article and post it on your blog. Then rewrite the same article so that 70% is unique or better yet, write a new article on the same subject and submit it to the ezines.

I do hope you are joking...

Why on earth would there be a need to find the 70% uniqueness???....

Why not 69%?

Or 71%?

Essentially, what you are saying is false, there is no need, in my experience, for any re-writing to be done.

New article?... that's a good idea, but it doesn't mean the original can't be re-used and re-purposed elsewhere...

This 70% uniqueness crap is...well.... crap

Peace

Jay

[Matt Gannon]

I published a few articles on my site, then to EZA and they were all accepted. I got them indexed with my site first before doing so.

I made the backlink's to the resource box go to my main page though. So maybe they knew it was mine anyways.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by JayXtreme

This 70% uniqueness crap is...well.... crap

Very neatly put. Accurate, succinct, stylish ... it has everything.

[SarahMcHarry]

My experience of duplicate content is that it's no big deal.

I have a blog with a lot of duplicate/scraped content that has achieved good PR and I think that is because of backlinks. My blog has more backlinks than any of its competitors (who have unique content) and I think that that's all that matters.

And I get traffic.

Sarah

[Colin Palfrey]

I always post to my blog first and EzineArticles know about it and don't care.

My current problem is that some twat, copied my article from my blog and stuck their name on it. I submitted it to Ezine and they said someone else claims this article as theirs already on another website and here is their URL.

I checked and there is no similar article there but my account has been suspended ever since. (3 weeks)

As there is no article on a site to complain about to anyone, as they took it down I'm still suspended. Grrr

[Troy_Phillips]

Originally Posted by JayXtreme

I do hope you are joking...

Why on earth would there be a need to find the 70% uniqueness???....

Why not 69%?

Or 71%?

Jay

This could have been represented as 53.6% ..... course it would still be untrue bull sh!t.

To Jay and Alexa..... With the accurate information you provide on everyone of these post ... I know you have to get somewhat frustrated .

Keep on keeping on. What you say is fact . I prove it every day , several times a day .

[Kay King]

I agree, folks - no matter how many times you explain it, someone still says "but I heard"...

Very simply - you cannot plagiarize yourself!!! You cannot violate your own copyright.

First - my site, then - EZA. No rewrite, no change, no problem.

kay

[aboutalhah]

I post the articles on my blog first without any problem.

I remember that the first time I did it, the article has been rejected and my account suspended for one week.

They thought it was stolen content. Then I asked them how I can prove that it's my own content, and they told me that I needed to add my name on the blog, as the author.

Like this, they know that I really own the article.

There is no problem with this, but I think it's better to tell them BEFORE you do it if it's the first time.

Franck

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

What about posting the article on your site and on EzineArticles at the same time? I can do it with two computers and if I do it just right, they are both within seconds of each other.





{kidding}

[-prodigy-]

Only Alexa gets responses like this:

Originally Posted by alexanderberson

Just for that one i will give you a THANK YOU

To comments like this:

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Yep ... that's exactly how it works for all the people who know no better.

I think I need to consider adding an Avatar

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by -prodigy-

Only Alexa gets responses like this

It was a very smooth, impressive, professional, tactful response, too ... and it was better than I deserved, really, in the circumstances, and I knew it.