Article directories and duplicate content

That's correct. The backlinks are worthless. (That was never part of the purpose of submitting to article directories anyway. People just wrongly imagined that it was.)

No, this is incorrect.

That isn't what "article syndication" refers to. That's an example of "article syndication" but it's a very trivial and comparatively unimportant one, which represents only the last 1% of article syndication. The first 99% is more helpful.

What you're referring to above (dumping a copy of articles in EZA in case anyone else re-published them) is "passive syndication" only. It's an afterthought. It's slow and unreliable. You can't control or influence their syndication, that way. It's better to do it than not to do it, but that's all.

I don't understand how rumor has got round that "article syndication" means putting articles in EZA and waiting for people to re-publish them, but very sadly, somehow it has.

Well, actually, I partly understand: there are a few anti-article-marketing trolls who maliciously and stupidly tell people that "article syndication doesn't work" and that many people who put articles in EZA don't ever get them syndicated at all. The second part is perfectly true, of course (especially if the articles are of poor quality!), and that's what gives these trolls some credibility; but that isn't what "article syndication" refers to, so they're actually talking nonsense. But they still fool some people.

"Content duplication" is an interesting term. Haven't heard that one before!

What it doesn't lead to is "duplicate content" (that refers, in this context, to multiple copies of the same text file within one domain). It's "syndicated content", but it isn't "duplicate content". Technically, it's "content duplication", I suppose, but it isn't "duplicate content" in the sense that worries you.

This post explains: Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog

That's correct. It would be bad and wrong to edit your articles before submitting them to EZA. That would be giving an article directory "unique content", which would make no sense at all.

But, above all, don't imagine that if you try this, you'll be "doing article syndication". That isn't really so. You'll be doing perhaps "the last 1% afterthought of article syndication" only. It isn't a business model in its own right. It isn't even a traffic-generation plan in its own right. So don't get your hopes up for it!

Here's a one-post overview of what article syndication actually is: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

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