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Article submiting

by jasontrades
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Hi,

If i submit some articles that i have on my main website to some article directories , is there a problem or will they consider it duplicate content and not accept it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude Toussaint
    I would definitely spin or rewrite the article with a minimum of 30% to 60% difference. You could spin the articles using a software for the lower quality article directories I would recommend hand rewriting the articles for the more quality directories.

    I would also wait two weeks after your article has been indexed on your own servers before syndicating them to the other networks
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    Originally Posted by jasontrades View Post

    Hi,

    If i submit some articles that i have on my main website to some article directories , is there a problem or will they consider it duplicate content and not accept it?
    This is something many of us here do, Jason. Most article directories, with exception to Buzzle - who do require previously unpublished/unique articles - will accept your articles just fine ... so long as they adhere to any and all editorial guidelines, of course.

    EZA in particular has no problem with you submitting articles that have been previously published elsewhere. They welcome it, in fact. Their only requirement is that you submit them under the same author-name as wherever else you've published them (purely for copyright reasons, of course).
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  • Profile picture of the author stonedac
    Most article directories will accept it just fine, the main problem is with SEO. Google doesn't like duplicate content linking to your site very much.. So at the very least spin it
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    • Profile picture of the author bretski
      I would recommend that you do not spin your articles. This is coming from someone that owns an article directory who regularly deleted articles and accounts of those that submit spun content. Guess nobody has learned anything from the Farmer Update... just sad that this advice is still given out on this forum.
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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Toussaint
        Originally Posted by bretski View Post

        I would recommend that you do not spin your articles. This is coming from someone that owns an article directory who regularly deleted articles and accounts of those that submit spun content. Guess nobody has learned anything from the Farmer Update... just sad that this advice is still given out on this forum.
        why would you recommend against spinning or rewriting your articles essentially the same thing. So you would upload the same exact article to all the different article directories.:confused:I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. There is no better way than getting slapped for duplicate content then doing it that way. It will be a waste of your time and none of your articles will get indexed. I'm sorry if the articles that were uploaded to your directory were not proof read prior to submission
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    • Profile picture of the author bretski
      Originally Posted by stonedac View Post

      Most article directories will accept it just fine, the main problem is with SEO. Google doesn't like duplicate content linking to your site very much.. So at the very least spin it
      The term "duplicate content" refers to having the same article in two or more places on one site.
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      • Profile picture of the author stonedac
        Duplicate content refers to a lot of types of duplicate content.. I wasn't trying to advocate spinning articles either, I was just giving advice based on the fact that he didn't seem to want to write original articles for the directories. To be clear though, when I say spinning I don't mean using a program to do it, I mean carefully rewriting an article by hand with appropriate synonyms in spintext so that each version will be high quality
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        • Profile picture of the author bretski
          Look up "syndicated articles" or "article syndication". Do you think that the big time publishing houses or newswire agencies spin their articles or require that anyone publishing their articles spin or change their articles?

          ...think about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author badal4u
    Submit part OF YOUR MAIN article, but you should spin them before submitting to different article directories. And if possible with different anchor text keywords in those directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author volaer
    Originally Posted by jasontrades View Post

    Hi,

    If i submit some articles that i have on my main website to some article directories , is there a problem or will they consider it duplicate content and not accept it?
    You can spin it or rewrite it. I really don't have any problem in article spinning. Just make sure that when you pass it, you review each article especially when you pass to article directories which have a good reputation like EzineArticles.com, Articlebase, etc. Google will not give a penalty on duplicate content. But it just don't have much effect than those that seems to have a "unique content". Again, you can spin it. But don't over do it. Make sure that spun articles does make sense when you read it and your spun articles will not look crap.
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude Toussaint
    well since you up publishing houses it's obvious what talking about two completely different goals with article writing. No publishing houses don't require rewriting content because that would be a violation of the author's rights. The publishing houses goal is to acquire more readers for the authors content. the way the original poster worded his question it seemed as if it was more directed towards the use of article marketing for the building of back links. For this strategy of building back links I still stand by rewriting your content
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by Claude Toussaint View Post

      well since you up publishing houses it's obvious what talking about two completely different goals with article writing. No publishing houses don't require rewriting content because that would be a violation of the author's rights. The publishing houses goal is to acquire more readers for the authors content. the way the original poster worded his question it seemed as if it was more directed towards the use of article marketing for the building of back links. For this strategy of building back links I still stand by rewriting your content
      Actually, Claude, submitting articles purely for the acquisition of backlinks is one of the purposes for which you do not need to spin. Spun, unique articles confer no more backlinking value than unspun, non-unique articles.

      For ranking multiple instances of your articles in the SERPs, spinning/rewriting might serve a purpose - but in most other cases (including for backlinks), it's simply not necessary.
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  • Profile picture of the author ginandtonic
    Spinning is definitely not necessary. If you do spin it, make sure it reads normally before you submit it. If you don't spin, all but one of your articles may end up in the supplemental index, but all the backlinks still count, so is that really a big deal?
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    • Profile picture of the author bretski
      This subject has been done to death on this forum and I will agree that there is a difference between "spinning an article" and "rewriting an article".

      Spinning an article infers and will lead a newbie to think that they need an article spinner and I have yet to see any spun article that reads even close to what a human being would write. Most times they are unreadable or if nothing else, set me off as being poorly written, at best. The chances of me clicking on a link from a spun article are slim to none and I would think poorly of a site as far as providing any information that I might, as a reader, find useful from reading said article.

      A rewritten article, on the other hand, would require someone to take the same thoughts, ideas and view points as the original article and rewrite them in the author's own words. Why not just write a whole new article? It might actually take less time to just write out an outline with 2 or 3 points that you want to convey and write away.

      My question is, if you wish to spin articles then why not just put that same spun or "rewritten" or "repurposed" article on your site then and then blast it to holy hell to 100 article directories? If all you are doing is trying to get backlinks? I have articles that are posted and indexed in numerous directories. Each one of those backlinks shows and counts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude Toussaint
    @DireStraits & ginandtonic
    I agree with both of you that you will get the backlinks, but I am a firm believer that if you're going to do something do it right and not half fast. In this case adding a little link juice with rewritten content has paid off tremendously in my traffic count and the positioning of my target websites in the SERPs
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by jasontrades View Post

    If i submit some articles that i have on my main website to some article directories , is there a problem or will they consider it duplicate content and not accept it?
    None will consider it duplicate content, because it won't be duplicate content: it'll be syndicated content.

    The only article directory which would reject it as "previously published content" is Buzzle, which many professional article marketers simply don't use, for this exact reason.

    Like many experienced article marketers, I have 1,200+ articles in EZA (and all of them are in varying numbers of other article directories, too), all of which had been published and indexed on one of my own websites before being submitted anywhere else.

    It isn't a problem.

    (I hope that all my competitors will use up their time/effort/energy in unnecessarily "spinning" all their articles, while I simply syndicate mine.)
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  • Profile picture of the author Shakd
    it would be considered duplicate content for sure! I'd use a spinning tool, or rewrite the article. I use THEBESTSPINNER, and I've never had a problem with any article directory.

    Cheers,!
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