Where Am I Suppose to Use My Articles First?

Hey!

You shouldn't use the articles on your blog that you will be posting to directories! If you do this enough then Google will penalize you for double content.

Write quality blog posts separately from your quality articles! Or write blog posts and get someone to spin them for your articles.

I recommend writing high quality articles (not spinning) because a high quality article will encourage more click throughs!

Thanks Sara, taking a look at the link you provided. Meanwhile, more opinion are welcome.

About duplicate content penalty - it doesn't exist,
but a "filter" does. If you put the exact same article
on hundreds of places, only a couple will show up,
the others have been "filtered" (not penalized, )

So, while I own lots of article directories and should
say you should submit your articles to directories
like mine, - you should first submit it on your site,
then rewrite/spin it into hundreds of other versions,
then submit the rewritten/spun versions to 100s
of other article directories, like mine.

But when it comes to article spinning - a word of
caution here - article spinning has been given a
horrible name because of the many folks out there
who don't want to spend the time to get it
done properly. Article spinning, if done right, is
critical to the success of article marketing,
especially if you want to submit to more places
than one.

Kingsley

NO, google will not penalize you for duplicate content but it is possible that your site may get "filtered" (but it has never happened to me BTW).

I hate embedding this video once again but seriously I can't help it:

I will give you some practical advice.

Start with writing articles on your blog, 10-20 articles are enough.

After that start writing on ezinearticles.com they have to be original, not the same stuff from your blog.

Update your blog once a week, the rest of the time send articles to ezinearticles, after that you might want to expand to other traffic sources.

I just got 20 people visit my site through ezine articles in a day, before that I would get 1 person per day.

Start first with your own blog before submitting it to directories. Change the title every once in a while. Also, if you want to submit them to EZA article, use the same name/pen name in your own blog. Hope this helps. Goodluck.

This is great. The exact thing I was working on comes up in this thread. I love it! How does this sequence look.

So, I submit my article and url to EZA first to speed it's acceptance then post it onto my blog with a link back to the article on EZA. Does this make sense?

Thanks for the info.

Two of the most successful marketers and bloggers on the Internet Brian Clark of Coppyblogger and Yaro Starek of Entrepreneurs Journey have collaborated on an ebook: 'Article Marketing'

These are direct quotes from their joint ebook:

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From Yaro Starak - Entrepreneurs Journey
Internet Marketing Blog - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

"What About the Duplicate Content Penalty?

The duplicate content penalty is a major concern when republishing content. Remember Google (and other search engines) may penalize websites that produce duplicate content by removing the page from its index or reducing its search ranking.

Now my understanding is that the original source of the article, as in the first place that Google finds the content or the version it deems as the oldest, won’t be penalized.

This is not a verified claim, I’ve heard counter arguments against it and in some circumstances if your source content is found after it’s republished somewhere else (which can often be the case if your site is not regularly indexed in search engines and the site that republishes your work is), then it’s your site that risks the penalty.

The answer of course it to modify your article before submitting it to Ezine Articles or similar directories so it’s not a direct reproduction of the article on your website.

In my case I reduced the size of most of the articles I submitted so they were not exactly the same as the originals, although they certainly would have shared paragraphs so I probably didn’t do enough.

I’ve yet to notice any penalization but there are a lot of forces in play here so if you are really worried, take the time to modify your articles or only submit original content."

From Brian Clark - Copyblogger
Copywriting and Content Marketing Strategies | Copyblogger

No Duplicate Content

"If you’re blogging, it’s very tempting to simply submit your posts to the directories. I stay away from this. I think it’s debatable that the search engines will penalize you for having content on your site that is also published elsewhere, but there is definitely some risk.

From a practical standpoint, simply having what you blog republished can hurt you with people who click through from your resource box.

When I read a good directory article, and then click though to the blog only to see the exact same content, I leave. Fair or not, I’m not feeling the value of spending more time there.

Anecdotally, I’ve simply had the best results when there is no duplication of content.

Often I will promote a free resource, such as a tutorial or other content that is delivered by email.

The articles drive traffic to the resource and help it rank in the search engines, and I get a chance to start a recurring relationship with that visitor. The syndicated article was the first unique step in creating that relationship."

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End of quotes.

The above from was from their free report with permission to republish the excerpts.

If you would like the entire PDF please send me a PM.

Matt

Hi Alexa
I did read the thread and I found this comment
"However, it may be quicker and more convenient with EZA to give it to them first and put it on your own site after they've accepted it."
Or is it my linking that doesn't fit?

Post them to EZA first. I write my articles and let them pull in as many visitors as possible. Once the articles fall out of sight, you can either put up a Squidoo lens and point it to your articles trying to get them back up in the ranks, or better yet, write some original content for your blogs and then point the articles to your blog. The saying that content is King is half right. Original content is King from my experiences.

Ezine articles and other article directories are against duplicate content period.

But duplicate as in submit the same article twice, most of these sites has some strict policies against PLR articles. They don't like to receive the same article over and over by the same user, or the exact same acticle over and over submited by thousands different users, that's spam. and that's not allow.

But if you are the author you can publish the same article in every single article directory that you can possibly find.

Because google wants to return a good "searchers experience" you are going to want unique content on your blog that is different from the article directories...this is if you want to rank for a highly competitive term.

Sometimes you might see similar content ranking...google is not perfect.

But as soon as there is more unique content available, the junk copy content is immediately gone off the first page. And also with unique content on your blog you wont have to worry about competing against yourself when you are trying to rank your articles and blog on the first page.