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Hi! I would like to share what I know about article marketing, based on my test results and inferences from my observations about those test results. I'm sure you want to know about my relevant knowledge and experience in the topic and sub topics in question before you read what I have to say, so here goes: I own and have been running, for more than 5 years now, an outsourcing firm built from scratch since September 2005, starting without any capital investment other than my own time and no office whatsoever, just our home, from 4 work at home pops and moms, including myself, my wife and 2 college buddies, to more than 90 employees and 30 subcontractors with 2 head offices and 9 provincial offices across the Philippines, in a span of 3 months after company registration, all while totally blind, and you can read the page linked by my signature about our startup story. I have been hired as the online content marketing, SEO/SEM and offshore employee sourcing and management consultant of 7 international security software corporations, one of which we directly helped become the manufacturer of the best selling registry cleaner of all time and another to have their website listed as among the top 10 technology website concepts of all time by a reputable online technology news network, as well as individual Internet marketing business owners and the affiliates and vendors of 2 affiliate marketing management corporations, one of which is RevenueWire.Com, and the corporate clients of 4 popular content development service providers, one of which is Constant-Content.Com. With that out of the way, here goes:

1. Should I post articles on my site first before EZA?
A: Yes, definitely. Your content, if you own full rights to it or have permission from the owner of the content to publish, is yours to post anywhere you believe would help grow and expand your business, anytime you believe would help grow and expand your business, and posting it on your site first gives me the impression that you want to grow and expand your business by building the content of your site and promote it and its content, with EZA just being a place where you can promote your business, your site and its content for syndication by other owners of sites visited by people included in your target audience.

2. Put my article on EZA and then others?
A: Again, it's your content, so post it anywhere you like obviously if it will help promote your site and onsite content.

3. What are good top article directories?
A: Depends on your definition of "good" and "top", which would in turn depend on the content marketing and search engine ranking strategies which work for your business as you believe, studied, tested and have observed.

4. To spin or not to spin?
A: Again, the answer to this depends on the content marketing and search engine ranking strategies that work for your business as you believe, studied, tested and have observed. You want backlinks? You believe more is better? Sure, spin to your heart's content, then automatically submit each version to thousands of article directories, with each version under a particular author name: one version = an account with one author name. Purpose: So you won't have to contact the support team of an online content syndication or distribution site because they need to clarify if you indeed own full rights to the content being submitted for publication or syndication since they may have seen the same exact copy published on other sites.

5. How to backlink your articles? your sites and other directory or your sites?
A: You believe more backlinks is better? Sure, build them in any online place you believe would help promote your business and content, though remember: You're building and promoting your business, its reputation, relationships with your target audience and your content, products or services. What better place to prioritize more in terms of promotions and viewer value additions than your own site?

6. Myth of duplicate content and what does it mean?
A: "Myth of duplicate content" refers to the belief that there is a "Google duplicate content penalty", which in turn is the belief that Google will sandbox a site and its pages in relevant search result indexes as well as deindex and blacklist such sites and pages because it detected multiple exact copies of content already under a site on other sites even if the content was legally syndicated because the owner of the content made a request for content syndication on other sites or the owner of the content gave permission to anyone to have the right to syndicate the content on any of their sites provided they follow a set of rules also given by the owner of the content, "rules" like "content should remain unchanged and a link pointing to a particular content page of the owner's site should be placed in a specific section of the content as specified by the content owner or the name of the content owner should be placed in a specific area as specified by the content owner, upon syndication". Google, based on what they published in one of their webmaster help pages, says they do not like a single site which just adds the same exact content under that domain instead of adding more unique value or unique benefits to the experience of the site's viewers. "Plagiarism" means copying or publishing or syndicating or modifying or revising content or any part of the content even if you do not own or have no permission to copy or publish or syndicate or modify or revise the content in full or part of the content beyond fair use, then publishing it as your own on any site even if you do not own nor have no permission to do so. How does Google, using a set of mathematical instructions for automating specific crawling, indexing and ranking or serving processes based on constantly changing heuristics, differentiate duplicate content as they have said in one of their webmaster help pages, syndicated content as specified by the relevant laws of the government where Google operates and plagiarized content as specified by the relevant laws of the government where Google operates? We do not know for sure, but I'd rather ask myself this question: Why does Google have to differentiate duplicate content, syndicated content and plagiarized content? The answer would most likely be: Because its objective, other than to grow their corporation, is to provide users with the most relevant, timely, popular and useful content. Another question after this would be: Would they fulfill this objective if they provide a user, after a relevant search, a top 10 search results list of the exact same syndicated content, each one in different online places or even under a single site? This is most likely the reason behind the "Supplemental Results" index and what they said in one of their webmaster help pages as I mentioned. The "Supplemental Results" index contains, in an example situation where 1 content page is found under the website of its owner while 9 copies of the exact same content is found under a different online syndication site and if any 1 or more copies do indeed belong to the top 10 search results for a particular keyword search according to Google's search engine ranking algorithms, 0 or 9 copies of the syndicated content, with 1 or 10 in the "Search Results" index. Why the need for a number range instead of an accurate number? These vary for each situation, though I have never encountered Google ignoring a page which indeed belongs to the top 10 search results for a specific keyword search according to their search engine ranking algorithms just because exact copies of it are found on other online places even if they have not received any deindexing or blacklisting requests from anyone contending that the content page has been plagiarized and published on any site without their consent = What I mean is: They have never, in my experience, placed all syndicated copies in the "Supplemental Results" index without placing copies that actually belong to the top 10 search results for the specific keyword search in the "Search Results" index, based on their search engine ranking algorithms, just because the exact same copies can be found on different online places and no deindexing or blacklisting requests have been sent to them nor validated as for them to push through with the deindexing or blacklisting request. Of course, I'm not referring to pages under sites which have been deindexed or blacklisted by Google, for whatever reason they have. By "never in my experience", I mean = Our company has done this countless times, for more than 5 years now, and I have never observed and have never heard even one of my colleagues nor even one of our clients tell me something like this because we implement legal syndication and are strict about plagiarism. As an example, as mentioned above, one of our clients has become the manufacturer of the best selling registry cleaner of all time, and we did their onsite content and promotional content as well as the onsite content and promotional content of their affiliates aside from other things like SEO strategy planning and software programming work, and, from the top of my head, we have done more than 100000 articles used as promotional content in a span of 42 months for them. Yes, this is the reason why our personnel grew from 4 work at home moms and pops to 90 employees and 30 subcontractors with 2 head offices and 9 provincial offices here in Manila in just 3 months after company inception: That client was the first one I managed to sign up after 1 year of working with them as their content marketing consultant, and they hired me as their SEO/SEM, content development and marketing and offshore employee sourcing, training and management consultant at a time I did not have a website, a business email, an office nor even company registration. I started working with them 5 months after I went totally blind due to multiple intentional gunshot wounds to the chest and head, and I also had a day job as a content writer and editor at a local outsourcing firm here in Manila back then. Now here's a thought possibly irrelevant to the discussion: Treat your employees and subcontractors as partners, as equals, because your aim is to work with people better than you in building, growing and expanding your business, and you should reward them for excellent performance and hard work of course, this goes without saying, though at the same time: You should challenge and motivate them with challenging and motivating result-oriented tasks. If my former employer, the person who owned the now defunct outsourcing firm I mentioned, challenged and motivated me to work as his marketing consultant, he would have signed up all clients I have signed up for the last 5 years and would have developed concepts and marketing plans for websites, products and services which would have grown and expanded his business further.

7. what is article syndication? keep the resource box in?
A: By "article syndication", I think you mean submitting articles to article directories to promote your business, your website and its content as well as more possible promotions for your business, your website and its content with owners of other websites picking up your articles and syndicating it on their sites. "Content syndication" is the process of publishing or submitting or requesting syndication for content which you own full rights to or have been given permission to publish, either under your own name with or without some rewriting involved or under the name of the person who owns full rights to the content, in any 1 or more online content syndication or 1 or more content distribution places you believe could help promote your business, its reputation, your website, your onsite content, products or services.