"Guest post is fine, but it must be 100% unique"

If you want to use the same article on multiple blogs then submit the article to article directories. That's what they are there for - so that blog owners can publish an article that has already been published elsewhere.

Can you really blame them though?

It takes me half an hour tops to write a blog post on a subject I don't know about. Why wouldn't you just make unique ones?

if it's a serious website than duplicate is forbidden.

basically It's common to blog owner, have these guest post rules

• Your post must be original and must have never been published before on the Internet
• You agree to not publish the post anywhere else (i.e., in your own blog or as a guest post in other blogs)
• You can include one link in the byline, which will be displayed at the bottom of the post

You should ask Bill Platt about the Unique Content Penalty. Boy oh boy.

:rolleyes:

I wouldn't accept articles that weren't unique.

And, I would never guest post for someone else and disrespect them and their audience by giving them an old article I've already published.

If I'm giving you a link and credit for doing the article and you give me one you've published elsewhere, it isn't guest posting.

I might as well just take whatever articles I want from different sites that permit me to do so with attribution.

Actually, that sounds familiar.

Can anyone say 'auto blogs'?

So, how can anyone be surprised that they don't want their blogs (where they work hard to please their audience) to look like an auto blog?

Personally, I've pretty much stopped taking guest posts. I spend nearly as long editing the junk most people send me as it would take for me to write it myself.

I'm not surprised you're having a hard time finding blog owners willing to accept 2nd-rate duplicate content.

But from a blog-owner perspective, would you want re-hashed content dragging down your blog and brand?

Also - here is a post I've found very helpful on Income Diary about best practices in writing a guest post: How to Write a Viral Guest Post for an A-List Blog

Hope this helps or gets people pointed in the right direction!

Ebiz Mom
Marketing with Integrity
www.startyourownebiz.com

Well from a blog owner's point of view, would you want someone who is trying to leverage your band for their own cause to be providing unique content and not bringing you down in the page rankings? I don't think a little keyboard equity is too much to ask for that privilege????

Ebiz Mom
Marketing with Integrity
Start Your Own Ebiz

Of course blog owners wouldn't want to have a content in their site that is not unique. It must be fresh and niche-related unless you want a syndicated content on your site.

There are different types of blogs (personal, , business, hobby, news, etc.) and there are different types of 'guest bloggers' with different experience, education and affiliations.

There are different blog owners with their own rules or no rules at all about duplicate content regardless if the content is so called duplicate content or syndicated content. The fact remains that if the content is copied from any source it is a copy. The blog owner is ultimately responsible for all aspects of the blog or website and that includes rather or not the content engages the visitors be it negative or positive in the best interest of honest reporting.

In my experience a successful blogging platform with 'guest posters' is only as successful as the rules that promote a honest and entertaining experience for visitors.

Jeffery 100% :-)

The more time you would invest in your blog the more benefit you can get but you should have understand of keyword research also.

Send a quality guest post on the keyword you have researched and it has less competition so that it would rank in search engine and can give you benefit.

Some blogs require unique content, but not all of them.

Some people think that a link from a unique article has more weight than one from a syndicated article. Some don't.

Unless you have the time and means to test that thoroughly, perhaps the best method is to mix it up - provide some unique content to some bloggers and syndicate to others.

After all, its just an article… its not like you are giving them your solid gold family crest that has been in the family since 1499 and is priceless.

Lee

I run a high quality blog that gets 25000+ visitors a month and it's less than 7 months old. I only use unique content, I guest blog regularly and I only write unique articles. Anyone who uses duplicate content is broke - and their sites get no traffic.

If someone is allowing you the opportunitity to write a guest blog post on their site then you should atleast be able to write a unique article. Guest posting can be a very effective means of getting traffic, don't try to shortcut your way through things, it will come back to bite you.

For quality high to mid level publishers, you need to forget about the "duplicate content" mindset from and SEO perspective.

For them it's more about being a leading and unique source of quality information for their visitors.

What would happen if every single news station published exactly the same news, in exactly the same order, with exactly the same presenters, all presenting the same news stories in an identical way? What would be the point of having 100 news stations? There would be no point - you would only need one. That's why all news stations all have people "reporting on content" in a unique and interesting way. To give them an angle and competitive edge to appeal to their audiences.

What would happen if every magazine out there would publish the same leading articles as all other competing magazines in their niche? Would you buy two niche related magazines? What would be the point?

If you think about things from that perspective, it makes perfect sense why ANY "quality blogger", and not just the big publications, want unique content.

And understand these big publications don't really give a rats ass about that content being duplicate from an SEO perspective. They already have audiences of 100k+ email / RSS readers - and can drive tens of thousands of readers to any article they decide to publish - whether it's unique or not. They can then monitorize that traffic they send to that content in exactly the same way they do for every other piece of content the publish to their website. They don't do this (except on rare occasions) for reasons explained above.

When you start dealing with the lower level blog publishers, you can then throw SEO into the mix. It's much more beneficial for any blogger to have unique content for SEO purposes for obvious reasons.

If you're not prepared to provide that why complain? Are you really going to convince them that the policies they have in place (for very good reasons) are wrong simply because you don't like them?

It's just a fact of life. Don't fight it. Run with it and profit.

Best...

Duncan Carver

duplicate post sorry.

I think 100% unique content is feasible. It shouldn't be hard to write a good guest post within 10 minutes.

I believe unique content for Guest posting is very beneficial to both parties so i suggest for the content to be only posted once.

Unique articles are the best way to attract readers.

The word unique has been used in place of 'unpublished'...

A 100% unique article would be one written in a language no-one has ever used before, making it a pile of junk. Unless you've come up with sentence structures that have never been seen before, a 100% unique article is pretty much impossible.

An unpublished article is that which hasn't been published elsewhere on the internet. This is what (I assume) the majority of people mean when they talk about 'unique content'.

As Paul Uhl has suggested in other threads; some of the time publishers wanting unpublished material are only trying to deter spammers, but are willing to look at engaging content for their audience.

Whether you satisfy their demands of giving them exclusive rights to your content (or not) is entirely up to you and how you want to run your business.

That's reasonable.

But I think the quality of the post matters most. On the other hand, if the same post also appears in others' blogs, to some extend, it will help improve the pr of the post.

While I agree with Danr62s position I do have one exception though. If I am in a enormous market, and that website happens to be the number one web property in that market, generally I will make an exception since it provides a far greater level of exposure than can be expected from most run of the mill websites.

Maybe I am just strange like that.

-Chris

In Matt Cutts' own words: where he dismisses the tools and methods of article marketing at least 6 times as:

0:28 "copies, mirrors, duplicates"
0:37 "not the highest quality"
0:41 "not the highest quality"
0:48 "duplicate content across the web"
1:30 "not to be as high quality"
1:50 "not an incredible value add"

While currently there are no penalties for duplicate content, Google have made it clear that if it finds duplicate content, then you're leaving it up to them to decide which article to show.

So, getting back to the original point, people with blogs don't want duplicate content because whatever the article is about, they would like to rank for it. They don't want any of their articles dismissed because they're found elsewhere.

Aside from that, Google may decide to actually punish sites with duplicate content.

Most with credible websites would rather not take that risk.

I wrote an over 1,000-word reply to all of those that want top notch, carefully researched, value adding, long and detailed articles for free, and with exclusive rights (claiming that sharing an already published article, by an expert on their niche will be seen as a sign of disrespect by their audiences), but then God decided to shed a light on me, so I realized: If you haven't changed your mind after so many posts written by experts on article syndication, then there is no hope for you guys, seriously.

Sorry if I came across as rude.

Most guest blogs are rubbish / crap often pumped out by bigger sites and written by dime sale writers for the purpose of pushing links. finding good guest blog/s is not that easy you would say rejection is the norm in 90% plus cases.

I'm totally against to duplicate content... However if you know something interesting.. try sharing links. that way is good.

People also tend to forget that you can use the same information to create several "unique" guest posts. With this I mean that you can have basically the same informational value, but package the information in different ways - to one blog you write the content as a list blog, to another as a "regular" post etc.

It is not the content that needs to be unique - it's the sentences and way of delivery.

Otherwise why on earth are there hundreds of articles about guest posting as a traffic strategy? Wouldn't one be enough?

Why wouldn't they want unique content? What are you offering their readers with recycle work that can be found elsewhere? If I am looking for guest writers I want the relationship to be mutually beneficial.

This conversation is unreal. Seems propaganda works in marketing as well as war.

Duplicate content only exists if you put the same content on a single website. The spammers did this a long time ago as a form of keyword stuffing and Google addressed it. That's It... don't over complicate it!

Actually, I take that back... Don't believe Joe, Alexa etc... Keep doing what your doing.. believe what you want about duplicate content. I have a bridge for sale for those of your who believe duplicate content exists from one site to another.

The less people who understand Article Syndication the better. *hint, hint, wink wink*