What' The Truth on Duplicate Content
Hot Damn - Finally someone with some freaking common sense! When you post an article to a directory like EZA, in theory at least, that article will be picked up and published on hundreds or thousands of sites. And yet, no one is penalized for it. When you publish an RSS Feed to an aggregator, tens of thousands of sites will be displaying your feed (again in theory) and search engines don't have a problem with it. The same is true for Press Releases...and Social Bookmarking, Blogging, yada, yada, yada. Not to mention resellers of various products - I was searching for View Sonic monitors the other day and came up with tons of "duplicate" content between all of the distributors. I've never believed in spinning articles and agree it's a total waste of time. I've tried it in the past and honestly? the results were no better/worse than with duplicate articles. Of course now the article spinner set are going to flame me, because they're the only ones promoting the concept...obviously because they profit from it. So I'll ask them this in advance - show me hard, cold facts that prove spun articles will out-perform unspun articles. Then show me factually how search engines respond to duplicate content. Trust me...if article spinners really outperformed duplicating articles, I'd have built and be selling one |
I have always doubted the duplicate content frenzy based on the logic above but I have never been completely game to ignor it either. Everybody keeps telling you to rewrite by hand or use rewrite software (or if you can't be bothered spin them) before submitting to the 100s of various directories, blogs, etc.
BIG MIKE ... let me get this crystal clear ... are you saying that if you write an article and submit it to EzineArticles wait until it's accepted, and then post the same unchanged article to as many different directories, etc, as you like, you will get the same results and benefits without any SE penalties ... Your saying if you had made the articles more unique by whatever means, that it would have been a total waste of time and effort from a linking and traffic point of view.
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