Question about article writing?

You could publish it to your own site and wait until it has been indexed by Google before using it on Ezine. That way your site would be the original but the article would likely still be devalued.
A better way is to write your high quality article for your own site and then take an element of it, not the whole thing, or even the whole subject, and write a newer, shorter article about this smaller element. This gives you a relevant second article to link from and a reason for people to click through from your resource box on Ezine to read more about the subject.

Hi Angela,

There's no downside.

What you describe is in fact the business model followed by many of the forum's more successful, professional article marketers.

The fact that the article directory copies will be syndicated copies will limit their own SEO value to the directories in which you subsequently publish them, but not, collectively, in the long run, do your own site any SEO harm at all ... as long as you post all your content on your own site first, of course, and have it indexed there before submitting it anywhere else. You can see a large number of professional article marketers explaining in detail all their shared reasons for doing this in this very helpful thread (among others).

There's a lot of misunderstanding about this. Many people don't quite appreciate the difference between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", and I expect that by the time it's completed, your thread will fill with all sorts of weird, wacky and contradictory advice. I see that already - with only two replies made - one of the comments above is completely mistaken and offers entirely misguided advice.

It will be just as "original" as the day you posted it and Google indexed it!

I think you're confusing "original" with "unique", aren't you?

It's clearly true that it won't be unique, but that doesn't detract in any way from its originality, not for you and not for Google, so it doesn't detract in the long run from the original copy's SEO, either.

This is a real hot topic for people with opposite opinions! I am largely on the fence, but in logical terms don't understand why Google would penalize you for having syndicated content.

Just a small newbie question? How do you know if your article has been indexed by Google. Does it mean it has turned up in the searches. How else do you know this has happened.

Thanks for asking the question OP as I was wondering if I should submit my articles too. I do worry about my content being used here there and everywhere!

thanks for all of the very helpful replies, what you have said makes sense now
I published an article on my blog last night, and checked this morning, and it has already been indexed by google, on page three. My blog is less than two weeks old, so I'm assuming this is pretty good?
Off to write some more........

Hi Angela,

Although high quality (exclusive content) is always king in the eye of Google, and other search engines, they do have a method of figuring which content is original and what is duplicate content. It really depends on how you go about it as to if it affects the value of the content on your blog (there is a method to the madness).

So here is what Google and most search engines do when it comes to duplicate content. They usually view the content that was posted first and the site it was posted to as the original content and assumes all other content is duplicate content. So the trick to doing what you are doing is be sure to post the content on your site first and give it a little time before you post it to article directories like e-zine article and the like.

I would suggest you give your articles at least a week to be crawled by Google's spiders before you consider posting it elsewhere. I hope this helps your Article Marketing Efforts.

Happy Writing!

Angela,

Don’t forget to make maximum and further use of your articles by spinning them AND manually checking them. We do this for all our articles and reuse them to get more published and get more visitors and more backlinks.

I would recommend The Best Spinner to this end, which you can do a Google search for or use thebestspinner.com. It is by far the best of the spinner software tools.

Then spin and submit to alternative article directories and other systems like blog posting networks. MyArticleGroup.com is a good start if you want to improve your search engine rankings in this way.

Good luck

* Daniel Deus