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Question about the Ezinearticles announcement

by LegionNate
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I'm sure there are tons of threads already about the blog post over at ezinearticles.com about the Google algorithm changes.

I have a specific question about that: I've recently switched over to the whole 'add your article to your site first, then after indexed add it to ezinearticles.com' idea, a la Alexa Smith and others.

I was wondering if this is one of the new things that Google is frowning upon and considering to be copied content, according to what was said here at Ezine:

"This past Thursday, Google announced an algorithm change to 11.8% of their U.S. search query results. Their target was aimed at content farms that are typically low-quality sites, sites with only <b>copied content</b> and sites with low value content."

I'm not worried about the content farm part, but wondering if what I described up above with what I do, is considered 'copied content' now... or if the order of where the article was placed first, then second, will matter at all.

Anyone know or pretend to know anything about this at all?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
    Well I am getting ready to test that as of right now

    But honestly I don't think that should be a problem. I mean, if google literally means what they say then that would just kill syndication and we know that isn't happening

    I still won't jump to a conclusion without getting the results to my test and that is about 30-40 days from today
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    • Profile picture of the author packerfan
      Has anyone reached out to ezine articles to see what they have to say? On the surface, it would seem like Google wants to point users to the "original" content, on your site for example. But on the other hand, a site like ezine sure makes the big G a lot of money, so it's hard to tell what's going to happen.

      I probably wouldn't worry much about Google penalizing you, but I could see ezine change it's policy and only accept unique content. Hard to say.
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberSorcerer
      Originally Posted by Mohammad Afaq View Post

      But honestly I don't think that should be a problem. I mean, if google literally means what they say then that would just kill syndication and we know that isn't happening
      Trust me Google knows the difference between WSJ, Time Warner, Associated Press, etc, etc, and some worthless, non-meaning, autoblogged, spun, post or article.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
        Originally Posted by CyberSorcerer View Post

        Trust me Google knows the difference between WSJ, Time Warner, Associated Press, etc, etc, and some worthless, non-meaning, autoblogged, spun, post or article.
        Well OP wasn't talking about auto-blogs but he was talking about his own site.

        But yes, google does know the difference and I don't have to think twice before saying that
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  • Profile picture of the author pavionjsl
    Just a thought, anyone notice all the extra adwords coupons for a little while now. Ezine can make all the changes they want, the game has changed.
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    • Profile picture of the author arttse
      I cant see how your site could be penalised by google if you submit non original content to ezine.

      As for syndicated content - it shouldnt matter. Webmasters will continue to upload non original content even if they know it may not get indexed. As long as their site contains relevant content for their users - that's all that should matter.

      I doubt ezine would be too worried about the latest cleanup as Ezine still generates so much direct traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Barboza
    If Google can ban your site for that reason, then it would be very easy to have G ban our competitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author LegionNate
    Great comments guys, thanks. To be clear, I'm not worried about my site being banned. As someone pointed out above, that would make it too easy to get your competitor's sites banned.

    So I guess the 'worry' (if it really is one at all), is that maybe articles you take from your website and then place onto ezinearticles.com will somehow be tracked down and cast out of the search results... just making it a waste of time to add those articles to ezinearticles.com and instead making it so you need to add brand new, fresh articles to ezinearticles.com if you want to get anything out of it. That's basically what I was wondering about.
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    • Profile picture of the author Doug Wakefield
      If you are doing things the way Alexa and Bill do them, you are going to be fine. They don't rely on Google or Ezine Articles to get their traffic.

      They get syndicated to other sites in the niche (either through EZA or contacting the webmasters direct) and end up getting traffic from a related source. This change will not hurt them nearly as much simply because they used the article directories as a means to and end, rather than the whole method.
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