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I have recently made a squidoo page or lens, and I wrote a 500+ word article and put some anchor text links to my amazon review site. My question is can I take that 500+ word article and use it again exactly how it is with out rewriting it on other things like hubpages, ezine and other article submission sites or do I have to spin it first? How can submit to multiple article submission sites and what are the ones to concentrate on? My squidoo lens is www dot squidoo dot com/ergonomic-leather-office-chairs

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J.T
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by jthenry55 View Post

    My question is can I take that 500+ word article and use it again exactly how it is with out rewriting it on other things like hubpages, ezine and other article submission sites
    Hi J.T.,

    When you say "things like HubPages, EZA ..." you're immediately hitting a problem and a potential confusion, because in the exact regard that you're asking about, HubPages is NOT "like" EZA.

    One's an article directory and the other one isn't, and that's the point.

    Article directories don't require previously unpublished content.

    Some other "article submission sites", which are not article directories, do (I don't use them myself, partly for that reason, but there it is).

    The moral of the story here, really, is that whenever you submit anything to a website you don't yourself own, you have to read their terms of service first.

    I think this recent thread will tell you all you can need to know about spinning articles.

    A handful of other threads which will, between them, answer about 99% of other "article marketing questions" you might have, are listed in this post.

    And good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author jthenry55
      the squidoo page is mine and I wrote the article on the squidoo page. And yes I do understand that hubpages is not an article directory.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by jthenry55 View Post

        And yes I do understand that hubpages is not an article directory.
        Cool ... then you'll appreciate that it's not a site "like Ezine Articles", which is an article directory and therefore doesn't require unique content.

        There isn't a "one fits all" answer to what you're asking, J.T. Article directories don't require previously unpublished content. Other sites to which one can submit articles vary. Some do - some don't. Some change the rules. And some change them (and the ways they're interpreted) quite frequently! One simply has to read the terms of service.
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
    Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

    I kinda' disagree here Alexa. Hubpages is just another article directory.

    What makes Hubpages that much different from EZA? :-)

    The fonts, the layout, the people that get fooled to publish content on daily basis for adsense peanuts?
    Well one is a directory of articles and the whole purpose for it is to go and take articles to publish on your ezines or sites, hence the name - Ezine articles or an article directory.

    Are you telling me you think Hubpages is somewhere you go to take articles and republish them on your own sites?

    Hubpages never has been an article directory Precious. You wouldn't want me going to your hubpages and using your content would you?
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  • Profile picture of the author jthenry55
    I'm confused, is it ezine that doesn't require unique content or hubpages? so lets say i just copy my squidoo lens and submit it to ezine is that ok to do?
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by jthenry55 View Post

      I'm confused, is it ezine that doesn't require unique content or hubpages? so lets say i just copy my squidoo lens and submit it to ezine is that ok to do?
      Ezine doesn't require unique content, Hubpages do.

      All these people change their TOS regularly though, so it is always best to look there first.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by jthenry55 View Post

      I'm confused, is it ezine that doesn't require unique content or hubpages?
      EZA doesn't.

      It's an article directory.

      Originally Posted by jthenry55 View Post

      so lets say i just copy my squidoo lens and submit it to ezine is that ok to do?
      As long as the content was published under the same name/pen-name, and otherwise complies with their editorial guidelines (obviously), EZA will have no problem at all with it. It's an article directory so it doesn't require unique content. Explained in more detail in this post.
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      • Profile picture of the author jthenry55
        thanks Alexa,
        I will submit my squidoo article to ezine. Do you recommend other places to submit it to as well? and what else should i do with the article?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

    Hubpages is just another article directory.
    This is just plain factually wrong. Come on, Al, you know better than this, surely? I appreciate that for some reason it apparently means a lot to you to take up a contrary position, if you can, but this sort of comment helps nobody, deepens the confusion on the subject, and doesn't reflect well on you, either. :rolleyes:

    An article directory is a depository of content available to be syndicated free of charge, subject to its terms of service. That's why they're called "directories", and it's why they exist, and it's the publishing need they were set up to fill.

    That's simply NOT what HubPages is at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author murtuza
    I was personally confused with all the opinions flooding all around the net about spinning so I decided to give it a test. Here's what I did...

    I created a 30 page theme based content site with proper silo structure, theme based content, linking structure, keyword optimization and LSI keywords. I did my homework about researching keywords where I got keywords that had an average 1500 searches per month, selected 12 keywords to target and they were moderate competing keywords. What I mean is that I had to get PR 3, average 150 backlinks to my pages, etc to get to page 1. Also the urls were setup perfectly based on the keywords I had to target.

    I did this intial homework and started targeting for 12 keywords. I purchased the best spinner to spin my articles, also grabbed article marketing robot software as it does good job of submitting spun articles on schedule and I got started. For every keyword I wrote 2 spun articles, set them up on schedule with article marketing robot software and got the links to the exact keyword targeted pages. I got just 15 links per day to every page for the 12 keywords I was targeting.

    I was surprised and I checked my reports daily using seo elite. Out of 12 pages where I was targeting 12 keywords, 5 pages climbed from nowhere to getting indexed and finally landed up on 2nd and 3rd page in google within a week's time. Infact 2 of them were on the first page for a while and then shuffling back and forth.

    Other 7 keywords were moving around from 4 to 8 pages. I am talking this about google US which was difficult to beat. Infact these keywords had over 5 million competing sites, LOL...

    Results I got in one week's time were cool, however I am not sure whether these results were due to article spinning, seo optimization, accurate keyword research, LSI, silos, linking structure or article marketing robot. But it worked...
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

    I don't think my article have been re-published more than 500 times which is useless
    Yes; that's certainly not great.

    I have only 1,500 articles on EZA, but their total syndicated copies amount now to many, many thousands, some of which bring floods of highly targeted traffic (without my having had to do the targeting!).

    So, like many others here, I'm doing very, very much better; but like theirs, my articles are written for syndication.
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    • Profile picture of the author JimmyRose
      WOW talk about over-analysis.

      It is common practice to build a bunch of web 2.0's like Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint with a similar article which are just rewritten versions of each other. Techncically you could use spinning for this, but if Hubpages work out that the content you published with them is reproduced elsewhere it gets flagged and taken offline.

      What you can do is rewrite each sentence for each web 2.0. That's easy because you don't have to research, you just reorder the sentence with different words which give it the same meaning. It is super fast to do, and it works.
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