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15 years ago

To be honest if I have one article I have written I will submit it the same article to about 10 directories. There is nothing really wrong with either way.

Only thing I see is that you are working too hard this way. If you submit one article a day to 10 different sites search engines see it as 10 articles.

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mdvaldosta

15 years ago

I think you'll find more success if you at least partially rewrite the content. At least the first paragraph and title. There's no fear of "duplicate content" penalties really, only that it's possible some of those articles would stay indexed or not supplemental if they were at least partially unique. Some people feel differently though, but that's my preference.

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Jon Alexander

15 years ago

Originally Posted by mdvaldosta

I think you'll find more success if you at least partially rewrite the content. At least the first paragraph and title. There's no fear of "duplicate content" penalties really, only that it's possible some of those articles would stay indexed or not supplemental if they were at least partially unique. Some people feel differently though, but that's my preference.

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webdev08

15 years ago

Yeah..I don't see any mistakes either in submitting your article into different article directories. But i guess, it would be more fruitful and worry free if you could rewrite its title and first paragraph just enough to make a slight change and make each unique from each other. Also be reminded not to include it to your own site.

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multimastery

15 years ago

Originally Posted by webdev08

Yeah..I don't see any mistakes either in submitting your article into different article directories. But i guess, it would be more fruitful and worry free if you could rewrite its title and first paragraph just enough to make a slight change and make each unique from each other. Also be reminded not to include it to your own site.

I actually heard that it is ok to submit an article that you feature on your site to article directories. But you should 'First' have it on your site for a least 1 month before submitting that article to directories. I don't do this but this is some info. that I've heard from a few pros.

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Solidsnake

Banned 15 years ago

Nothing wrong with it... just avoid posting the same article to your site...

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daria19

15 years ago

Hi Barry,

Yes I think it is important to submit different unique versions of each article to directories. Not so much in that you will get penalised, but that the links are likely to stay indexed longer and count as valid backlinks for you.

I have subscribed to a service that will take each article you submit, and send unique versions of it to hundreds of different directories.

My experience has been that I get 100+ backlinks for each article I submit. Now I am paying for this service so I expect a good return, and I haven't been disappointed yet.

The service also lets you drip-feed the articles so that you do not get too many links too fast (a problem I'm sure we all wish we had sometimes)

So Barry, my vote is that duplicate article submissions are not so much BAD (that's a bit harsh), but they don't give you the best return for your effort IMHO.

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daria19

15 years ago

BTW Barry,

Nice pepper spray website. I like the graphics, and your content looks great!

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- submit_articles 15 years ago
  
  Keep the content on your site 100% original. For article marketing, use different articles. You can submit the same article to multiple directories, assuming they are quality articles.
  
  Some customers of mine tried to use macro articles to avoid the duplicate content. That works too. But creating macro articles manually can be time consuming. Automated macro articles don't work, since the process changes the context of the articles.
  
  In my opinion, just write quality articles and don't worry too much about duplicate content. I've seen brand new sites rank well with normal articles - tried and tested.
  
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mcarey6

15 years ago

Originally Posted by daria19

BTW Barry,

Nice pepper spray website. I like the graphics, and your content looks great!

Thanks for the compliment I learned how to make pages back in high school and have tinkered with it ever since. I'm a raw code type of person and find it relaxing to sit down and bang out the code. I love doing graphic work with Photoshop as well.

I'm in the process I rewriting most of the product descriptions. The person I took the site over for cut and paste all of the product descriptions for the wholesalers site. I'm pretty sure it's causing a ranking issue, I have had a real hard time making it rank. But I have found the more descriptions I rewrite the better my rankings get it just takes a ton of time to rewrite everything. I do everything myself so I have more work than I have time for.

But I'll leave the rambling at that. Thanks again for the compliment.

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MainStreetMarketing

15 years ago

Barry,

Speaking of articles, my favorite article on your site was the one about 'defending your home with an onion'. Great title, good content.

Best wishes for your success.

Originally Posted by mcarey6

Thanks for the compliment I learned how to make pages back in high school and have tinkered with it ever since. I'm a raw code type of person and find it relaxing to sit down and bang out the code. I love doing graphic work with Photoshop as well.

I'm in the process I rewriting most of the product descriptions. The person I took the site over for cut and paste all of the product descriptions for the wholesalers site. I'm pretty sure it's causing a ranking issue, I have had a real hard time making it rank. But I have found the more descriptions I rewrite the better my rankings get it just takes a ton of time to rewrite everything. I do everything myself so I have more work than I have time for.

But I'll leave the rambling at that. Thanks again for the compliment.

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hbsjcd3 15 years ago

I have submitted the same article to 30 directories and my article usually ranks well for the long tailed keywords in the title.

After 2 weeks, I submit the same article ( with a slightly different title) to my blog, and it still ranks well. I don't experience duplicate content penalties..
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bizdepth 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Solidsnake

Nothing wrong with it... just avoid posting the same article to your site...

I agree. This is also what I do. I write articles and submit them to many article directories out there. But I never post or include this article in my own blog or website. This way, you can have lots of backlinks and at the same time - maintaining your site to have original contents.
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Oling

15 years ago

you can submit as many of those ONE article to different sites as long as these articles are not identical to your articles on your site. Plus if you can just change the title or the first paragraph, tehn it would be a whole better.

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Sleaklight

15 years ago

From my personal experience, do not post the same article at other websites or your own. I had a PR 4 article at buzzle and then I submited the same article, word for word at ezinearticles(thinking I could get more traffic if the succesful article was posted at more places than 1) and the PR 4 article went down to PR0 and traffic from it dropped to basically nothing. Huge mistake on my part and learned my lesson.

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Jenie0109

15 years ago

I agree. You can submit same article but in different directories/site

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gnoud

15 years ago

I would just submit to the best article site and concentrate on getting it on the featured page.

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geoffcruz

15 years ago

Hi Barry,

This is what i do, i submit an article to ezine and once that gets approved thats the only time i submit the same article to different article directories. Since ezine is the most strict of all of them you should submit their first.

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mcarey6 15 years ago

I would like to thank everyone that has posted a reply. There is some great information here. Obviously it is one of those subjects that many people have different results/views with.

Based on what everyone has said I think I'm going to do some testing with my article submission tool and see what happens if I take a couple of good articles that I put out awhile ago and submit the same thing to a bunch of article sites to see if it hurts the original.

I will get back to everyone with any results I find from this.

I always make sure not to put the same content on my own domain that I do on article sites. I learned from that awhile back.

Once again I would like to sincerely thank everyone that has posted their thoughts here, it will help a lot.
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- Kay King 15 years ago
  
  Whether you use the same article or rewrite - it's up to you. I put my articles on my sites, submit to EZA and then to a few other directories, too.
  
  Important to note that the duplicate content penalty does not apply in any way to article marketing. Article marketing is syndication and it's good when other site owners add your article - with proper credit and link - to their site. More exposure, more links back to you.
  
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  jamesfoster27 15 years ago
  
  Most of the people now a days submitting the Duplicate articles to increase the Backlinks. Its OK to some extent. If you submit Duplicate articles for more sites in a day them it way leads to some problems..
  
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jtrag

15 years ago

Use unique content, and never spam the search engines/directories with submissions. SEO and promotion takes time and most of all, patience.

If you need more help with this shoot me a PM on here. I'd be glad to help

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captivereef

15 years ago

I used to submit unaltered until i tried to submit a rewritten articles to ezinearticles,goarticles,amazines and articledashboard. The rewritten articles all showed on page 1 for the keyword.

i did this for a bunch of articles all with the same results.

THis never happened when i submitted the same unaltered article to those directories.

Plus if you 100% rewrite the ezinearticle and submit it to them twice you can usually grab at least 2 spots for your keyword on the front page.

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multimastery

15 years ago

I would suggest that you at least make slight change each article submitted (at least 20 - 50%). Regardless as to whether article duplication is a real issue or not -- you can be safer injecting a little original content in each one that you submit. This can get you more marketing mileage. This was many of your articles can show up in SERPs under different keyword searches!

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captivereef

15 years ago

Do not forget to change the title and the anchor text link as well. I never changed author names

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anth.elias

15 years ago

My advice submit articles to EZA articles only. Never put them on your site. Google love EZA it's an authority site and it sits good with Google. Imaging having over 500 articles live a EZA and only EZA. Personally I don't trust any other article site, think about the respectablity and the reputation of your site if it only has backlinks from articles at EZA.

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CopyScaper

15 years ago

I believe there's nothing wrong with that...I did the same thing and the results were really good....

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coolseek

15 years ago

I am still new, but I don't think duplicate penalties matters. If you can produce unique content, it is great. If you cannot, submit the article. A link is a link.

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