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Is it a good idea to have same articles on several directories?

by fated82
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Hi all,

Was wondering if its a good idea to have the same article on several article directories? I have alot of articles in ezinearticles.com but I wanna send them to articlebase.com, goarticles.com etc. Is there a risk in Google penalizing me for duplicate articles?

Is there any way to get about doing it?
#articles #directories #good #idea
  • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
    The duplicate content penalty as far as PR is concerned has to do with duplicate content within your own site. You will still get link juice from the duplicate articles. However, it's not likely that a bunch of identical articles will all rank for the same search query, so if that's your goal, it's probably best to spin them a little. I think you can use copyscape to check the uniqueness percentage, but as to how unique is enough, people debate that it ranges from 30% to 70%.

    Hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author ildarius
      Some even say 19%, nice Posts to Thanked ratio btw
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    • Profile picture of the author Sebastien
      Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

      The duplicate content penalty as far as PR is concerned has to do with duplicate content within your own site. You will still get link juice from the duplicate articles. However, it's not likely that a bunch of identical articles will all rank for the same search query, so if that's your goal, it's probably best to spin them a little. I think you can use copyscape to check the uniqueness percentage, but as to how unique is enough, people debate that it ranges from 30% to 70%.

      Hope that helps.
      thanks, this is exactly the info I was looking for.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Diego Norte View Post

      There isn't much benefit from submitting articles to article directories anyway. A vast majority of visitors to article directories are just there to submit articles or scrape articles for junk blogs and MFA sites.

      Why not submit your articles to actual publishers of real publications instead? Then your articles will be read by real people who have a real interest in the topic of your articles and your site.

      Sometimes a "shortcut" really isn't a short-cut at all.
      Yeah, definitely reserve your good content for your own properties. Use your second best stuff to be published on partner sites (guest blogging and the like) and use your weakest content for putting on article directories. The only reason you want to get content on there is for backlinks and MAYBE a high serp if you're lucky. It's much better to blog your own quality articles and build backlinks to that.

      Great suggestion, James. I mean Diego.
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      • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        Yeah, definitely reserve your good content for your own properties. Use your second best stuff to be published on partner sites (guest blogging and the like) and use your weakest content for putting on article directories. The only reason you want to get content on there is for backlinks and MAYBE a high serp if you're lucky. It's much better to blog your own quality articles and build backlinks to that.

        Great suggestion, James. I mean Diego.

        Keith, so are you saying that putting your articles on your blog is more valuable in terms of link juice than submitting them to article directories? However a lot of the article sites will be PR4 or 5, how will your own blog match that? If the blog's PR is lower you will not get the same link value.
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Originally Posted by Diego Norte View Post

      There isn't much benefit from submitting articles to article directories anyway. A vast majority of visitors to article directories are just there to submit articles or scrape articles for junk blogs and MFA sites.
      Another statement made without proof, facts or common sense!

      I completely disagree, based on years of personal experience and information shared with me by many other respectable article directory owners.

      If you have an article directory and a "great majority" of your traffic is from submitters and scapers, then you are doing something very wrong. In fact, you should probably shut it down now before you lose any more money.

      If you do not own an article directory, I suggest doing a little research or learning the niche before making statements like this.

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      • Profile picture of the author Texjd
        I agree with Allen above. That statement is completely wrong if you publish to the top 3 to 5 article directories.

        If you want to really go after the keywords or terms, do two versions of the article, one for publication and one for your website. Have the title and content different but based on the same keyword or phrase and different enough as to not have problems with duplicate content.

        Especially when it comes to Ezinearticles.com. They are very demanding in the quality and folowing their rules so many viable Ezine publishers rely on them for good articles to publish.

        And that's one of the best features of Ezinearticles.com, if you have a good article it may get pubished many times which really impacts the traffice you receive. The readership on the site is just gravy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Resale Rights Ninja
    I post my articles to ezine articles first. If the article is being used anywhere else first, ezine articles will likely reject it. If ezine articles will not take it then it ends up as content on my website, blog, or hubpage.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Kaye
    I like EZine Articles.

    I wrote a review for an SEO product. The article showed on the front page of Google and within a few days I had a few hundred dollars in sales...For a FREE article that's pretty good ROI.

    Do all articles respond this well? NO. But some do. It isn't a waste of time. If you submitted two or three a day then you can get some decent monetization from articels.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikemcmillan
    I'm thinking ezinearticles has a PageRank of 6--not sure now. My take is that many people submit one or two articles on a topic and hope to show up on Google or get tons of traffic. It doesn't work like that.

    Serious article marketers write a couple dozen articles a day for ezinearticles--and some pay to have their articles written for them. After you've been writing them a while you can crank out 350 word articles in 6-7 minutes. That will get you about 20 in two hours. Do that for a month and you will have plenty of Google exposure and good traffic coming in.

    That sounds like a lot of work, but the big guys do that work and get results to show for it.
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