Why Duplicat Content Fears Don't Make Sense
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Being afraid of your article receiving a Duplicate Content Penalty when mass distributing articles or whatever doesn't make sense. After all, one of the original focal benefits of article marketing was that webmasters might stop by an article directory, pick up your article, and republish it on their site...leaving you an author's resource box link, and possibly some inbound traffic.
Let's say this went well and 1,000 webmasters picked up your piece and republished it. You'd now have 1,000 backlinks and 1,000 pieces of duplicate content out there...not "spun" in any way/shape/form.
Would you consider this bad? I think not.
I read a transcript of an interview with Matt Cutts and he said that duplicate content is only a fear of "White Hat" types and he said it was unfounded 90% of the time. Truth is, when multiple copies of the same thing are found one version is chosen for promotion while the rest are stuffed to the bottom of the pile of competing pages for that keyword.
But the backlinks on those pieces are not "not counted" or rendered with some type of "invisible NoFollow" attribute. Thus the links still help promote your site regardless of whether or not the content itself is a copy.
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