Can You Submit or Distribute Your Article To More Than 1 Website At The Same Time?

No; this isn't right at all. That's why Google won't see it as "duplicate content". It isn't duplicate content. Duplicate content, for this purpose, is multiple copies within one domain.

Nope. Sorry, but this is also something to avoid doing. This whole thread (only 1 page!) explains why that's such a mistaken approach.

You can, but what you'll gain from doing that is another matter. Here are the two "main principles" ...

(i) Always publish your articles on your own site first and never let them be published anywhere else until Google has indexed them on your own site (which should be quick, anyway);

(ii) You're very unlikely to benefit from submitting them anywhere where they can be published "automatically" (i.e. with no editorial approval/selection processes involved) because those sites aren't, in practice, going to have the targeted traffic that you want to attract to your own site.

Here are two posts that give more detail.

This one is a one-post overview of how article marketing works.

And then this one and its links explain "how article directories work" which actually has a bearing on the question you've asked.

I think those two posts, between them, should clarify the basics of what you're asking about, anyway.

I use to do that, at one time. I don't bother any more. Still, it may help you. You need to look at the terms of service for each one, though, to see whether or not it's allowed.

No, it's utter nonsense.

Look at the world's leading news and sports websites - many of them syndicate much of their content from places like Reuters and Associated Press, where it was originally published, so you can see that it can't be true.

Also, sites like Ezine Articles (which exists for people to find and re-publish articles in their own ezines and on their own websites) wouldn't be needed at all, if that were true.

I suspect that you've slightly misunderstood the purpose of having your content re-published elsewhere.

That's a bigger issue. But here's a very simplified explanation. Publishing content only on your own site isn't really much of a traffic-generation plan at all: the only traffic that's ever likely to bring you is some gradual, eventual, search-engine traffic (and that's typically of very low value for all the reasons explained here). The purpose of having it published elsewhere is to take your content to the places where the targeted traffic you want to attract to your site is already looking. That's called "article marketing".

Those places aren't article directories, of course, or social media/web 2.0 sites or anything similar to that They're sites specifically relevant to your own, which already have targeted traffic but need content for their own visitors to read.

As this post explains, although article directories do have some value (at least, Ezine Articles has, a little) no article marketer wants to use an article directory to attract customer traffic: we want the potential customers coming straight to our own sites.

Agreed! Heck, I would even call up bloggers and businesses that you don't know and send them your content and ask them if they like the content to link back to you... Youll be surprised... 10 calls could equate to 3 or 4 massive links that will skyrocket you in the SERPs quickly.

Good Luck,

Derek

Get one? (And make sure it's a self-hosted one, not one on someone else's domain that you won't really own or control yourself.)

This can even be done free, if it absolutely has to be, by starting off (for example) with a self-hosted WordPress blog at byethost.com, or 000WebHost.com, or freehostia.

(It helps to register a domain-name, though, rather than using the free subdomain that those free hosts will also give you.)

Have a Big Strategic Re-think. Honestly.

How are you going to host your squeeze page and give away the giveaway? (Host your site the same way?). The purpose of having the articles published in places other than your own site is to draw the already-targeted traffic from those "other places" to your own landing page, right? So, wherever you have the landing page hosted, you can also have your own site hosted there, too, perhaps?

You appreciate that you're also going to need some kind of autoresponder, for email marketing, if you're planning to collect email addresses via a squeeze page?

Are you planning to do this for some kind of affiliate marketing?

On the contrary: it's an excellent idea, and it's the underlying basis of how large and increasing numbers of Warriors are making our full-time livings. (A little forum-posting tip for you: sometimes it helps to read the thread, before replying to it ).

Nope - not so at all: that's extremely unlikely ever to be as good as having the high-quality post itself widely syndicated in front of the traffic you want to attract to your site.

That's just because you haven't read the thread, though. Go on - indulge yourself: you might even learn something beneficial!