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Submitting same article to multiple directories?

by Anish
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Hi,

Just a quick query. Let's say I have 30 articles that I want to use for Article Marketing, and I submit them as-is without making any change, to 40+ article directories. Would that be beneficial at all, or would Google be indifferent to the backlinks because of duplicate content?
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  • Profile picture of the author dean3265
    To get maximum benefit, you need to have unique articles posted in each directory, each with a backlink to your page. Spinning software such as SpinnerChief will help you produce the unique articles. Whether Google would totally ignore backlinks in duplicate articles is difficult to say.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by dean3265 View Post

      To get maximum benefit, you need to have unique articles posted in each directory, each with a backlink to your page. Spinning software such as SpinnerChief will help you produce the unique articles. Whether Google would totally ignore backlinks in duplicate articles is difficult to say.
      There's no need to spin articles submitted to multiple directories. If your site is broadbased enough to rank for several keywords, you might get some slight benefit from varying the anchor text. Generally, that mean varying the resource box, not the whole article.

      There is no duplicate content problem. When returning results, Google will simply include whichever copy it deems most relevant. As far as the links go, a link is a link. Links from deep within article directories aren't worth much to begin with. They're on non-relevant pages almost by definition, unless you happen to come across an article directory which is niche-specific. If you still give any weight to PR, you're new article submission will be, at best, on a PR0 page.

      Unless you really need the variation in anchor text, I'd skip the spinner as a waste of time.

      Since we're talking about links here, I won't even get into the low-quality gibberish most article spinners spit out.
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  • Profile picture of the author PRBandit
    I think you should be fine with spinning them. But I wouldnt leave them alone and submit them as they are.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Anish View Post

    would Google be indifferent to the backlinks because of duplicate content?
    No ... a backlink on a given page doesn't vary in quality according to whether the content to which it's attached has been spun or syndicated without spinning.

    Originally Posted by Anish View Post

    Would that be beneficial at all.
    With or without spinning, it may be very slightly beneficial. Not much more than that, though, because all article directory backlinks are non-context-relevant, PR-0 (or "PR-not-available") backlinks, and that's about as low as you can get in backlinking terms. 100,000 of those backlinks and $3.50 will get you a cappuccino at Starbucks.

    They won't gain anything from "spinning", and there's no downside at all to submitting them as they are.

    It isn't "duplicate content", though: it's syndicated content.

    The difference is very neatly explained right here by an expert article marketer.
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    Some sites say they will copyscape articles for uniqueness.

    I have seen some advise that you at least change up the title and the link anchor text for a bit more diversity.

    I have mixed feelings about spinning, it's a negative for all readers except spider, these spun articles often make you look less than expert on the subject.
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