What is considered Duplicate Content?

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I am trying to get a full understanding of duplicate content now with all the Google changes.

I have 3 fresh new unseen articles, target to my my website and brand.

Here is my plan:

1. Take articles and publish them on my website.
2. Take same article and publish on ezine articles.
3. Pay someone to mass distribute same articles.

Would I need to spin or rewrite the articles?

If Yes, Then how many times would it need to be spun?
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  • Profile picture of the author Yadira Barbosa
    Actually you can't publish on your site the same article that you will submit to ezine articles, because they check manually for duplicate content.

    You can create an article for you site and then write another on the same topic for ezine articles, then create a link to the first one.
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    • Profile picture of the author LarryC
      Originally Posted by Yadira Barbosa View Post

      Actually you can't publish on your site the same article that you will submit to ezine articles, because they check manually for duplicate content.

      You can create an article for you site and then write another on the same topic for ezine articles, then create a link to the first one.
      Unless they've changed their policies recently, this isn't the case. They may check to make sure you aren't submitting the same content as someone else but you are free to publish the article on as many sites as you want and also on Ezinearticles.com.
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    • Profile picture of the author talfighel
      Originally Posted by Yadira Barbosa View Post

      Actually you can't publish on your site the same article that you will submit to ezine articles, because they check manually for duplicate content.

      You can create an article for you site and then write another on the same topic for ezine articles, then create a link to the first one.
      I still have articles that I wrote a few years ago. First I added it to my website. Then I took that same article and submited it to Ezine articles. I also have a few here that are in the articles section of the warrior forum.

      They all seem to be on the first page so I don't think that it is a major problem to publish your artilcle in 3-5 or more places.

      I guess that some will disagree with me.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
      Originally Posted by Yadira Barbosa View Post

      Actually you can't publish on your site the same article that you will submit to ezine articles, because they check manually for duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    Duplicate content is self explanatory... more than one article that is the same and doesn't pass copyscape or other plagiarism checkers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Andre Slater
      Originally Posted by laurencewins View Post

      Duplicate content is self explanatory... more than one article that is the same and doesn't pass copyscape or other plagiarism checkers.
      Thanks I know what the literal definition of Duplicate content is, I am online marketer, but the more I investigate this topic the more I see different answers. This is why I asked the question and as you can see, there are a lot of different answers...

      Thanks again for your input
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  • Profile picture of the author Jackson Tan
    I think that depends on how strict the site check your content.. I tried using a similar method initially but stopped since it wasn't getting results.. but some sites are very stringent in their checks.

    Good luck Warrior~
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Duplicate content is the same content on a single domain, not the same article across different domains.

      Your 1-2-3 plan is fine, however, make sure after you publish the article on your site first, that it is indexed before posting to ezine articles. Oh, and there is no need to pay someone to mass submit your articles, 2 or 3 good sites should be fine.

      There really is no need to spin or rewrite the article.

      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author Beverley Boorer
    Yes, I understand from other posts written here that content is only duplicate if it is found on your own website more than once. So as long as you don't publish the same article on your website twice or more times it should be ok.
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  • Profile picture of the author DotComBum
    If you 'cute and paste' something into your site or blog, then it's consider as duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author preets
    You can publish the articles first on your website , and then submit to ezinearticles and other article directories they will publish it without any problem because you are the author of the articles and you have full rights to publish them.
    But you can't submit the same article to squidoo as they only accept unpublished articles.
    I suggest you to first publish your articles on your website and then on ezinearticles.
    I am doing it for years without any problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author robbhw
    You can run your article through "Plagiarisma" (Free, but need to sign up an account). I find it is the best content checker, it catches a lot of other plagiarism checkers can't, including copyscape.

    Plagiarisma can tell you the uniqueness of your articles with very good accuracy.
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  • Profile picture of the author fantazo
    duplicate contain is possible if you lost your previous article to modify or edit purpose.
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  • Profile picture of the author MA Robinson
    You can publish articles in your site and post it later on ezine articles as long as you are the author.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      This thread is pathetic, but shows the insanity that people have
      over duplicate content. They just quote or believe some idiotic
      self proclaimed SEO guru who knows a guy who said so in some
      blog....

      Duplicate content, the penalty stuff, is the SAME stuff on your
      website...done in such a way as to create multiple ways into
      your website by cheating, shmoozing, and abusing search
      engine algorithms. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.


      You can even put the SAME stuff on your website in multiple places!!!!
      Just like amazon, ebay, wikipedia, yahoo, google, gasbuddy, (my gosh the list
      is endless.....)

      Get a grip people. Once and for all.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    There was a time when I would say duplicate content can only happen on the same domain, but all duplicate content isn't created equal.

    If your copy/pasting (example) from Amazon product descriptions, that's most likely creating additional unnecessary competition for the page that your trying to rank.

    Just saying...

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    Pure affiliate sites consisting of content that appears in many other places on the web are unlikely to perform well in Google search results and may be negatively perceived by search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author tjaysen70
    If you add some of your won content above and below your sourced article..then it will be unique now. Always reference original article. And now you have a curated site with content that google loves.
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  • I think you should research on the topic and write the article yourself.That will give points to your website by Google.It takes time but it's worth it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Originally Posted by fantazo View Post

      duplicate contain is possible if you lost your previous article to modify or edit purpose.
      This is when I wish there was a 'Say what?' button.
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  • Profile picture of the author larry05
    If taken Google as a search engine, then duplicate content is considered as a spam for them and will ban the site forever or may penalize the site.
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