Another very Simple article marketing question for ezinearticles

No, you definitely need to write unique content and not reuse articles of yours. Otherwise it won;t help you get ranked, it rather gets you penalized by Google.

Check the uniqueness of articles with copyscape (paid) or plaguiarismchecker (free).


Kindest regards!

I don't know about Squiddo. But last I checked, if the article is published on your website you can publish it on Ezine also. In fact, a lot of people recommend re-posting articles that you published on your website to article directories. As long as you can prove the website belongs to you, Ezine won't give you any trouble.

for that reason only, many of the article marketing gurus recommend to first post the article on your personal blog and wait for the google to index yours, so that your article will be ranked first than others.

This is completely wrong.

This post will help you, Mindwire - at the moment you have it totally back-to-front: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post4309204

You also don't understand what "duplicate content" means, and have that confused with "syndicated content". The differences between the two are briefly but pretty clearly explained in this little article. And/or in this post .

This is just total nonsense. Sorry to be outspoken, but it's pretty difficult for beginning marketers, when they're starting off and are understandably confused about the subject, if people reply to them simply by regurgitating misinformation from the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing. That has never been true, and it isn't true now, and it would be totally contrary to Google's widely and repeatedly stated objectives for that ever to be the case at all. In short - it's just nonsense. Sorry.

Don't worry - we've all been there, when we started!

Many of us were originally misinformed, here, about all this stuff, when we started off, and some of us wasted a few months, earning nothing, as a result of believing the people who were doubtless trying to help but were ill-informed themselves. It's a risk of "taking information from forums". There's no "quality control" of the "information" offered, unfortunately, and when one has little experience, it's not a trivial matter to decide who's got it right and is actually doing it regularly and successfully, and who's just "repeating stuff which was never true in the first place". :p

It isn't a violation of anything to do with Ezine Articles (as long as the "author name" is the same). They won't mind.

It isn't a violation of anything to do with Google. They won't penalize you.

However, it is a problem with Squidoo, if you do that, and when they eventually notice that you have done, they'll almost certainly remove the lens. So it isn't recommended at all.

Squidoo isn't an article directory at all - not in any way; not in any meaning of the words. It's a Web 2.0 site. It requires "unique content". ("Unique" means "previously unpublished", in this context). Ezine Articles doesn't.

It's only WordPress blogs for which they give you the widget to re-submit your own posts to them as articles, but you can do it "by hand" wherever they've been published. They don't care about that. They need articles to be "original to them", not "unique". In other words, they won't accept it if there's already a copy of it in their database (because if they published that, that really would be "duplicate content" and Google really would - effectively - penalize them by putting one of those listings only in the supplemental index, because "duplicate content" means "multiple copies of the same text file within one domain").

Article directories don't care where it's previously been published. That has nothing to do with them. But Squidoo does. And will catch you at it, eventually, if you do that, and you'll lose the lens.

It's actually simpler than it feels. It gets confusing only because "forum chat" is so full of ill-informed misinformation on the subject. But what can you do?

Whatever lengths Google goes to, to clarify the difference between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content" (and those are actually quite some lengths - they even put on conferences at which panels of experts explain this stuff!), people still get confused between the two. And similarly, sometimes, between "original content" and "unique content" (again, two completely different things).

It's possible for an individual syndicated copy to outrank an original, yes. Often temporarily.

It's cumulative. What matters is gradually to build up the initial indexations for your own site and not give them away needlessly to anyone else's site. In the long run, you'll outrank 99% of them if you always do that. Hence the importance of publishing on your own site first, awaiting indexation, and only then submitting them anywhere else, and in the same form ... and not giving other people any "unique" content which you could first have published yourself.

If you want more detail (I'm not sure you need it!) about the information in the paragraph above this one, here are two threads which may help ...
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

Planning to use ezine as well. Don't know why i didn't start earlier. But as far as a know, it allows publishing articles which are already published on your website or blog.