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Need advice on duplicate content

by dmag1
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Hi,

Another poster here mentioned in a private e-mail that duplicate content is only a problem when it's on your own site. I had never heard it stated that way before and I need your opinion on this.

I would like to post articles on EzineArticles.Com and others, and if I can just send up the exact posts from my blog, that saves a lot of rewriting time. I don't mind putting up 25-30 of the hundreds I have, if they can be spread to thousands of sites (hopefully) and there's no downside to me -- regarding a duplicate content penalty of some sort.

Same with social bookmarking. If you have the same title, text description and tags on 50-100 bookmarking sites, isn't that also a duplicate content concern?

This poster is well known here and I respect his opinion. I'm just doing some followup work to make sure I'm on the right track.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
#advice #content #duplicate
  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    This has been coming up daily lately - I'm beginning to think someone is trying to sell an article spinner and using incorrect info to do it.

    The simple answer is this - duplicate content does NOT apply when you are talking about marketing your articles. Those who tell you it's a problem - are wrong. You can put the same article on your site and submit it to directories.

    You can ask for multiple opinions and you'll get them all over the place- but the truth is it's not something to waste time worrying about because it's not a problem. Articles are not what the too-often-mentioned duplicate content penalty applied to.

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      • Profile picture of the author Amber_Writes
        Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises View Post

        when I come along and read your article on EZA and then click through to your site, I'm looking for further information not the same thing I just read. That would turn me off as a reader and I'd click away from your blog.
        This is the ONLY reason I would suggest that you don't post the exact same material all over the place. Otherwise, I'd say do it all day...
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    • Profile picture of the author Stephen Crooks
      As Kay says, it is fine for you to publish your own articles on ezine and your own site but is it a good idea from an SEO point of view? It might seem a bit odd to have a backlink from your bio box going to a blog with the same article.

      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      This has been coming up daily lately - I'm beginning to think someone is trying to sell an article spinner and using incorrect info to do it.

      The simple answer is this - duplicate content does NOT apply when you are talking about marketing your articles. Those who tell you it's a problem - are wrong. You can put the same article on your site and submit it to directories.

      You can ask for multiple opinions and you'll get them all over the place- but the truth is it's not something to waste time worrying about because it's not a problem. Articles are not what the too-often-mentioned duplicate content penalty applied to.

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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        It might seem a bit odd to have a backlink from your bio box going to a blog with the same article.
        Of course it would seem odd - which is why that is not the page you link to. It would make no sense to link to the same article but hopefully you have more than the one article on your site or blog or you have a squeeze page or a sales page or ....a product review page.

        I've said it before - if you want to spend time rewriting all your articles, do it. It's not necessary but some people seem determined to work harder than they have to:rolleyes:

        Of course, if I rewrote the article - I still wouldn't link to that original article page on my site!

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