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Should I submit my old blog posts to ezinearticles?

by Cybernettr
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This is a question that might be of interest to a lot of people.

I have a couple hundred posts on one of my blogs now. Each is around 500 words, is my own writing and could serve as a stand-alone article. Now that these have appeared on my blog, should I post them to ezinearticles and/or other article directories?

Here are the pros and cons:

If I post them to ezinearticles, I could get a quick surge of additional traffic for little additional work. The posts have gone into my blog "archive" anyway, and Google will note that they appeared on my blog first.

On the other hand, if I post them to ezinearticles, they will instantly become "duplicate content" and no longer unique to my blog. It seems like article scrapers are more likely to get material from ezinearticles than from individual blogs without giving credit or a link back to the author's website. I will no longer have exclusivity over my own content.

Opinions?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Cybernettr View Post

    Now that these have appeared on my blog, should I post them to ezinearticles and/or other article directories?
    Sure ... once they've been indexed on your own site.

    There's no downside.

    Originally Posted by Cybernettr View Post

    On the other hand, if I post them to ezinearticles, they will instantly become "duplicate content"
    Syndicated content, not duplicate content. "Duplicate content" means something different.

    Originally Posted by Cybernettr View Post

    I will no longer have exclusivity over my own content.
    True, but for many professional article marketers, we wouldn't make a living with "exclusivity" over our own content. We want as much syndication as we can get.

    When all is said and done, there's no advantage to submitting to article directories work that you haven't previously had published and indexed on your own site.

    Ultimately, it all rests on the significance of the difference between duplicate content and syndicated content: you just can't get away from this issue, in this context, I'm afraid. And (with the exception of the inevitable presence of a few misguided people in the "spinning business" and so on), you're not likely to find a much better or clearer discussion of that issue than in the thread linked to above.
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