Great to know! This information will definitely affect my SEO strategy!

Good news. I always thought that the duplicate penalty was nonsense. Glad to hear that it is.

Don McCobb

Great article. I agree every day we receive stuff that is a rehash of old ideas. Unfortunately, our spam filters are not clever enough to identify it as such.

Don McCobb

Can't believe I missed your blog when it was here! Oh well. Guess I'll come join you at your site.

Have now read this and a couple of your other posts..many thanks for all the insight.

Great post Allen!

Our "social nets" and our ability to provide a "hall of fame" user experience will be more important than ever indeed.

nice post - thanks - in all forms of message communication it is recognised that pictures enhance the message - why not articles

I was thinking the same thing...

back in August I had what I thought was a 'sand box' issue with a blogspot blog I made for a local moving company.

Turns out that blogspot blogs rank well, then degrade quickly in seo terms.

I pulled my ads, stopped taking new clients until I figured out how to prevent this from happening. I didn't want to take someone's money and not be able to deliver!

you wrote: "With Expert Status comes immense responsibility"

I agree totally

PS) I cracked the code on blogspot ranking but this is your post and not the place for me to perform "shameless self promotion"

My warriorforum blog is the place for that

I started a thread about this where I created 10 blogs with exactly the same content. So far, they all are in the serps with different rankings but I cannot see any penalty. Just letting you all know.

TomG.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty"

Angela Edwards, myself and others have been sharing the above link for a long time, but still nobody pays attention...

It's like you say Allen, proof doesn't seem to be forthcoming by those willing to give advice... thanks for sharing dude..

peace

Jay

Cool info Allen...thanks!

Good info Allen - Hope you don't mind, but I posted the link to your blog posting in the General forum.

Allen, any other tips/updates you can share? Sounds like a great seminar - was it in person or something online (just trying to see if I can weasle an invite next time :-) )
Great post and Thanks!
--Jack

Hi Allen, I'm surprised that out of 26 views, no one has taken you up on your offer yet! You're already an established article marketer.

It sounds interesting, I have an article in mind and I'm quite sure that when I'm done with it, it's definitely going to be in the 1200 - 1500 range. If not more.

Once it's done, I'll shoot you the article to see if you think it qualifies! ;D

Asher

AL

Interesting points. Last December I conducted a test. I took one article. I spun that article so that each new article was 30% different.

I wanted to see if a spun article would get ranked using different resources. I used the same title and posted on ezine articles, go articles, article dashboard and I created a Hub. All pointed back to my content site.

For the first few months, EAs was 1st page, no.2, the hub was no. 8 and Article dashboard and Go articles were both on the 2nd page.

The test proved a point to me that you can rank well spinning articles.

I have just checked and EAs is still no.2 Go articles is on the 2nd page, but the hub and article dashboard is no where.

You can see that in this scenario, EAs have stayed the course and provided long term exposure, whilst some of the others have not.

However, you can argue, that by using the directory mediums, I generated more traffic than by only using EAs alone.

The next test could be to compare the number of different hits the other directories generated, the time it took to spin and submit and compare this to simply using that time to submit more articles to EA.

Of course there are other factors, such as backlinks, people downloading my articles from other directories etc to factor in.

Personally, for now I concentrate on EA only. Occasionally I will use article post robot for a mass distribution but otherwise that's it.

It's a continual testing process to find what works best for the least amount of input.......

Cheers

JJ