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CAN I POST THE SAME ARTICLES ON VARIOUS SITES OR WILL I BE PENALISD BY GOOGEL FOR THIS
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  • Profile picture of the author Alan Cheng
    Submitting your articles to as many article directories as you can will not penalize your website. To be on the safe side, you can modify your article to place on your own website after wards.

    Alternatively, you can place the article on your website first and then wait for a few weeks after it is indexed and then submit them to other article directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author Franck Silvestre
    No, you won't.

    Just try to keep your main site original... It's not about the search engines, but the visitors.

    Franck

    Originally Posted by faranak View Post

    CAN I POST THE SAME ARTICLES ON VARIOUS SITES OR WILL I BE PENALISD BY GOOGEL FOR THIS
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  • Profile picture of the author prashie91
    as franck said, nothing is going to happen..
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  • Great question faranak and one that every article marketer asks at some point or another...

    First, let me ease your mind by clearing up a very common misunderstand in the SEO world. You're initial concern was about Google "penalizing" you for dupe content.

    Google doesn't really "penalize" many people. Google does "filter" content, but it's not the same thing as a penalty. Marketers using "black hat" or illegal techniques (according to Google's Terms of Service) are the only ones truly penalized (having the pages removed among other things).

    Duplicate content is usually filtered, not removed. Here's an excellent excerpt from an article found on Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines and similar to one written by Google itself:
    "Another duplicate-content issue that many are concerned about is the republishing of online articles. Reprinting someone's article on your site is not going to cause a penalty. At best, your page with the article will show up in a search related to it; at worst, it won't. No big deal either way.

    If your own bylined articles are getting published elsewhere, that's a good thing. There's no need for you to provide a different version to other sites or to not allow them to be republished at all. The more sites that host your article, the more chances you will have to build your credibility as well as to gain links back to your site through a short bio at the end of the article. If the site your article is hosted on shows up instead of yours, so be it. There's nothing wrong with that, as your site can be easily clicked to from your bio; the pros far outweigh the cons. In many cases, Google still shows numerous instances of articles in searches, but even if they eventually show only one version, that's still okay."

    Second, I do quite a bit of article marketing in different niches, and I've never had a problem with search engine results.

    Raymond Edeh was very wrong in telling you it will destroy your business (sorry Raymond, nothing personal). I can tell you from first hand experience that it will only help. I can usually find a site that has one of my article ranked someone on the first page or two of Google and/or Yahoo. It also increases my credibility when other sites (blogs, forums, other web site owners) reprint my article. It gives me more credibility in that niche. I just use a tool that will check to see if my content exists someplace where someone is NOT giving me credit (stealing my content).

    For pure search engine results, I really don't care where it comes from - just as long as it comes.

    Here's a link to the full article if anyone is interested:
    The Duplicate Content Penalty Myth

    Hope it helps.

    The Crazy Internet Dude
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  • Profile picture of the author karlp295
    This is what I'm doing:

    I write an article on my website, I rewrite at least half of it and turn it into a blog post or put it on Squidoo. I then rewrite it again and submit it to about five of the major articles directories. I think it's a bad idea to submit articles which are exactly the same on your website because the articles want a unique content and also your website should have unique content.

    This idea that Google penalises you for having duplicate content of different articles engines is nonsense because even if you do subnet articles which are significantly different to different directories then other people can publish them and you can't control this. If Google were to penalise you for duplicate content because of the actions of others this would be unreasonable.

    I really think that this idea of duplicate content has been very exaggerated the in the minds of many including my own at times.
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