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Where are my syndicated articles REALLY showing up?

by ELK
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Hi -

I've just posted a few of my articles to some directories. I recently did a quoted search on a sentence or two of my text and was delighted to see several results other than my site and the directories I submitted them to.

I did see one blog, perhaps a well-made autoblog, that had my whole article with the resource box all intact. Fabulous. But several other results seemed to have those sentences in the initial search, but when I got to the site all I saw was this nonsense:

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Not a single article or a trace of anything I ever wrote. What is this garbage?Like a trash blog or something?? They had titles that appeared related to my niche, but they were completely useless.


I'm perhaps just naive because I'm quite new to IM and the whole syndication thing. I just don't get what these things are or why anyone would make them.


Thanks.
#articles #showing #syndicated
  • Profile picture of the author Cinneide
    Looks like that site is having some server problems which may be causing the mesage you saw. It might have been OK when Google indexed the site and found your article.

    If you are submitting articles you have to accept that a percentage of the time your articles are used will be by badly set up autoblogs.

    Have you tried using Google Alerts to check on your articles being published? This would save time checking manually.
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    • Profile picture of the author physicalproductsguy
      I also watch for my articles being published via Google Alerts as well as by receiving trackbacks on the blogs that are linked in the resource box.

      The sad reality of article marketing is that many people republishing articles will not include the resource box or nofollow links in the resource box. Both are against the terms of most article directories but there's no real enforcement.

      I don't think there's a better approach other than just having lots of articles and depending the resource box to survive a certain % of the time.
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      • Profile picture of the author ELK
        Thanks to both of you.

        I wondered if it may have been just an "autoblog gone wrong". I've actually seen several of those blogs with that type of result. The ONE looked actually really good. The rest were garbage.

        I'm happy with the one so far - I don't have many articles out, so I'm not expecting anything wild to happen. Maybe with some of the changes Google is making, some people won't be as inclined to try the junk approach.

        Well, who am I kidding? Some will still do it! But I'll have a lot out there and look forward to being picked up by some good ones.

        Thanks also for the google alert suggestion. Hadn't thought about that at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
    Hi ELK,

    It is a sad fact that your material will be scraped. But sometimes you'll find your article on a high traffic site and your traffic will spike and your optin list will grow. I live for those times.

    IMHO, constantly checking on my articles, especially when I have a lot that have flown the nest, takes up too much valuable time I could be using to grow my business.

    Peggy
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    A lot of scrapers will catch your article title and the first couple of paragraphs in your article.

    A better search is a sentence from the middle or end of your article, and the search query in quotes.

    Some sites will also host your article long enough to get spidered by Google, then they will take down your article hoping to ride on the search rankings they got from the article.
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    • Profile picture of the author ELK
      Bill -

      I'll bet that's what happened. The search result shows my sentence (it was the first one, so I'll search it differently next time) in the description but not the page.

      Thanks for the tip!
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      • Profile picture of the author ELK
        @peggy

        Yes, I won't be spending a whole of time doing that. It's still pretty novel to me so it's interesting to see the different ways they are showing up. At least good to know what happens. AND I'm still pleased it showed up in full with the resource box on a decent looking site.

        Certainly better things to do with my time in the long run
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        • Profile picture of the author Peggy Baron
          Originally Posted by ELK View Post

          @peggy

          Yes, I won't be spending a whole of time doing that. It's still pretty novel to me so it's interesting to see the different ways they are showing up. At least good to know what happens. AND I'm still pleased it showed up in full with the resource box on a decent looking site.

          Certainly better things to do with my time in the long run
          I totally agree!

          Peggy
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