Submitting your site content to article directories = your site in supplemental results?
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When I first started this stuff in November, I had read several posts by people who said you should write articles, have them indexed on your own site, and then you could freely put them on article directories, etc.
Well, I did that with almost all of my articles.
Now that I have a bit more knowledge of SEO and keywords, etc, I've been looking up some of my stuff. Well, when I search for my keywords or chunks of text from my original articles, my site is almost always pushed into the supplemental results while the article directory versions (and sickeningly) autoblogs that scraped my articles rank higher. This is searching for something like "My name is mattward and I've been a dog lover for most of my life" in quotes, and ranking in the supplemental with autoblogs above me.
It would seem that although your site may be the first one indexed for content, if you republish it elsewhere, those sites might rank above you for it. I'm assuming this happens if your site is new and without any authority. In this case, it seems as though it was a terrible idea to syndicate my articles verbatim to directories and I don't think I'm going to be doing this anymore.
My question is this: should I go and rewrite my articles by hand so that they're completely unique to my site again? I don't know if I'm even getting proper credit for them anymore, since many of them are in the supplemental. A good number of my sites took a huge dump in the SERPS after the Panda update, and I can only feel like this may be the reason. I'm not sure if going through the trouble of rewriting everything would be effective or not.
(On a side note, I'm about to send some DMCAs and emails to Adsense regarding some of the people ripping off my content. Karma's a bitch.)
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