(Tip) Submitting to Article Directories after your blog?

13 years ago

This is an extremely nice tip Theemperor I never thought about it that way . But if you post an article on your blog and then submit it to Ezine wont it reject it for being duplicate content?

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by virtualc08

But if you post an article on your blog and then submit it to Ezine wont it reject it for being duplicate content?

Not at all: EZA specifically invites and requests articles which authors have previously published on their own sites/blogs. And for the record it isn't actually "duplicate content" anyway, even if it's identical - contrary to what one would think, that isn't what "duplicate content" means (to search engines): it's "syndicated content".

EZA has never required "original" or "unique" content.

All explained in this thread. And a very good tip from TheEmperor.
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Richard Van

13 years ago

Originally Posted by virtualc08

This is an extremely nice tip Theemperor I never thought about it that way . But if you post an article on your blog and then submit it to Ezine wont it reject it for being duplicate content?

No it is not duplicate content as has been explained here by Alexa and Kierkegaard so well.

The thread Alexa has pointed you to will explain all. What you are doing is sadly helping this myth to survive and no doubt lead to many people failing to make a dime in article marketing.

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Kierkegaard

13 years ago

I can't understand how this 'duplicate content' thing with ezine won't die.

If you have an article on your blog/website and you submit it to ezine they will not reject it as duplicate content. If you don't believe this, ask them.

If someone takes your article from your blog and without your knowledge puts in on their blog without crediting you as the author - if you then submit this article to ezine they will not approve it. However, if you contact the person who stole your article and get them to either delete it or credit you as the author - ezine will accept the article. I have been in this situation so I know that ezine will not only accept an article that has been on my blog first but on someone else's blog second.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kierkegaard

I can't understand how this 'duplicate content' thing with ezine won't die.

And if a Danish philosopher can't understand it, what chance does the average internet marketer have?!

Regarding EZA, it's just an urban myth that they don't accept articles already published elsewhere. It's never been true, but people think it is, because they imagine they understand the "reason" for it, which of course relates to this whole "duplicate content penalty" myth.

Partly it's the fact that, to the uninitiated, it sounds like having copies of exactly the same text on two different websites would be "duplicate content", because people just don't understand what the words "duplicate content" actually mean (i.e. to search engines).

And then of course there's a whole industry which has a vested financial interest in selling and promoting "spinning software", and they need people to believe that their products/services are needed to resolve a specific problem or difficulty. But that's internet marketing for you: many people make a living by selling solutions to "problems" that don't really exist.

And then there are all the people who've more or less been "brought up to believe in a 'duplicate content' 'penalty' ": they may have no financial incentive in it all being real, but they still have a sometimes huge emotional investment in "not being wrong about it". (And those are actually the trickiest people with whom to have to discuss it - because their motivation is concealed - sometimes even from themselves!).

And in forum discussions, there are always people who don't read the thread at all, but just look at the title and/or maybe the first post and then add their grossly overvalued two cents-worth on the end, producing some nonsense like "I'd advise you to spin it a bit to avoid the duplicate content penalty".

Difficult one. It's not going away any time soon! :rolleyes:

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JohnMcCabe

13 years ago

Originally Posted by jjoshua

This tip sounds really useful...but I'm just a bit curious to know, if ez doesnt penalize you when you use your own blog content on an article submission, will google penalize duplicated content?
If google doesnt penalize duplicated content, then what will the role of article spinners be?

Unless wielded with a degree of diligence and skill, article spinners will continue to fulfill their traditional role: choking article directories and endless spam blogs with unintelligible gibberish interspersed with a few keywords.

The role of the spinner sellers will also continue to be the same: to separate the marks from their money.

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jjoshua

13 years ago

This tip sounds really useful...but I'm just a bit curious to know, if ez doesnt penalize you when you use your own blog content on an article submission, will google penalize duplicated content?
If google doesnt penalize duplicated content, then what will the role of article spinners be?

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Richard Van

13 years ago

Originally Posted by jjoshua

This tip sounds really useful...but I'm just a bit curious to know, if ez doesnt penalize you when you use your own blog content on an article submission, will google penalize duplicated content?
If google doesnt penalize duplicated content, then what will the role of article spinners be?

Please just read the thread Alexa pointed out. You will understand why you are wrong then. Sorry to sound rude but this comes up about 20 times a day and really is getting tedious.

If Google penalised this as though it was duplicate content, which its not, its syndicated, then why would EZA have a high PR. Better still how would any article directory be in business??

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scortillion

13 years ago

That's a great point, didn't think of it like that... thanks for the tip

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aldovacano

13 years ago

thx for the tip men!

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Richard Van 13 years ago

Originally Posted by aldovacano

thx for the tip men!

:confused: Erm, I'd strongly urge you to have a look at the avatar of Alexa.

She's a she and if she was a man she'd be quite possibly the most effeminate one I've seen or will see, ever.
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- DireStraits 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Richard Van
  
  She's a she and if she was a man she'd be quite possibly the most effeminate one I've seen or will see, ever.
  
  You obviously haven't visited some of the bars I have, then ... I've almost been "caught out" a couple of times. :rolleyes:
  
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  Richard Van 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by DireStraits
  
  You obviously haven't visited some of the bars I have, then ... I've almost been "caught out" a couple of times. :rolleyes:
  
  Dude, you're going to the wrong bars...
  
  ...in very much the wrong part of town.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by DireStraits
  
  I've almost been "caught out" a couple of times. :rolleyes:
  
  They'd have to be strange bars indeed, for people to take you for a girl with that beard. I'm just saying ...
  
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  Richard Van 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Alexa Smith
  
  They'd have to be strange bars indeed, for people to take you for a girl with that beard. I'm just saying ...
  
  Hahahaaaa! Excellent!
  
  I knew I'd seen him before...
  
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  DireStraits 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Richard Van
  
  Hahahaaaa! Excellent!
  
  I knew I'd seen him before...
  
  Hoooollllyyy hell!
  
  My hair wasn't far off that about 4 years ago, though.
  
  Thanks Richard - I won't eat for a week.
  
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ryanbiddulph

13 years ago

I do it every time.

Re-purpose your content guys. Leverage your presence and save your time.

Helpful insight here, especially the piece about waiting for the blog post to be indexed. Thanks for sharing

RB

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collegeguru

13 years ago

Thanks for the information. So one can submit their own original content previously posted on their blog to ezinearticles. What about submitting content that we've already posted to another article directory?

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MagicWhisper

13 years ago

Originally Posted by collegeguru

Thanks for the information. So one can submit their own original content previously posted on their blog to ezinearticles. What about submitting content that we've already posted to another article directory?

I would like to know the answer to this one as well, please.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by MagicWhisper

I would like to know the answer to this one as well, please.

It's not a problem at all, as long as the name under which it was previously published is the same as the name (or pen-name) under which you submit it to EZA, so that they don't imagine you might have stolen it.

(If not, they may still publish it, but only after you satisfy them that you are in fact the rights-owner of the material, and doing so will cause a delay and it may even not be too easy to do.)

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MagicWhisper

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It's not a problem at all, as long as the name under which it was previously published is the same as the name (or pen-name) under which you submit it to EZA, so that they don't imagine you might have stolen it.

(If not, they may still publish it, but only after you satisfy them that you are in fact the rights-owner of the material, and doing so will cause a delay and it may even not be too easy to do.)

Thank you Alexa and everyone else who has helped.

-Tara

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collegeguru

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It's not a problem at all, as long as the name under which it was previously published is the same as the name (or pen-name) under which you submit it to EZA, so that they don't imagine you might have stolen it.

(If not, they may still publish it, but only after you satisfy them that you are in fact the rights-owner of the material, and doing so will cause a delay and it may even not be too easy to do.)

Wow this thread has totally burst one of my misconception bubbles about article marketing. I thought I'd have to rewrite articles for each directory I submit them to.

Thanks!

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ELK

13 years ago

Me too. Right now I'm digging through some of my old articles, blog posts, etc, seeing if I can either submit the whole thing or do a "salvage for parts" concept (steal an intro, take some bullet points but rewrite them).

Wow - eye opener on how to better spend my time! Very grateful to have read this.

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