About the whole "publish on your own page (first)" thing...
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I recently joined the forum and have read a few threads. Lots of great info here.
There is one thing I don't understand, and I'm hoping someone can explain it. I'm not trying to pick a fight here, just some clarification.
Practically everyone indicated that when you write an article about your product/niche, you should post it on your own site and then post versions of it to EZA and other directories afterward.
My question has nothing at all to do with your EZA article outranking your original or anything like that. I have a different question entirely: Why post the article on your main site at all?
I mean, if the idea behind writing this article and getting it "out there" is to make your own site look like an authority, isn't it better not to have the article on your own site? Sure, it means your site has less unique content, but it also gives more of an impression that some other site (unaffiliated with you) has linked to yours as an honest vote in favor of your site.
If your own site has its own copy of that article, I would think it would just look really fishy.
These remarks do not apply to the case where you have a long article on your site and a summary pointing to it...that looks more believable. But two versions of the same article, one linking to the site that has the other just seems like it would be too obvious.
Help me out.
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