Need advice on duplicate content

by otherx
10 replies
Hi All

I don't have much exp with this section.

When using content from article site and using them as in, does it still give you high rank with seo?

Will the search engines not see it or will they still ban you with this..

Any feedback will be great ..

Thx
#advice #content #duplicate
  • Profile picture of the author sandyenric
    if you want a content you just type the keyword in the Google search engine and you can find many contents and take one two contents and there is a free article spinner's that software will spin the article and you do some relevant changes with that article and like that you can make your own content and you can check in plagiarism and if u find any duplicate and u can change accordinglly the serach engine doesn't catch while changing the duplicate's i used to do like that
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    I would not recommend using other people's content or spinning it at all. If you want to make money and you want to do it for the long run you need to create your own unique content or have it created for you.

    Using articles from directories on your own site will not help you rank all that high unless you have some good unique content to go in with it. Plus you have to use the links in the author resource box on your blog or website as well.

    If you take someone else's article and spin it, most likely it is not going to be very good content and this can be a bit of work anyway. You might as well put in the time or pay the money and have good, unique content created for your project.

    Benjamin Ehinger
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  • Profile picture of the author mark147
    Most of the SEO expert suggest that using duplicate content in your website may be a cause of banned by Google and other search engines. if you want to re post your article the you should have to edit at least 30% of the content.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
      Banned
      Originally Posted by mark147 View Post

      Most of the SEO expert suggest that using duplicate content in your website may be a cause of banned by Google and other search engines.
      This is utter nonsense. They don't suggest any such thing at all. Nobody who knows the first thing about it would make such a suggestion. :rolleyes:

      Think about how many international news websites syndicate most of their content from Reuters and Associated Press. It doesn't seem to concern them that search engines might "ban" them, does it?! :rolleyes: :p

      You're confusing duplicate content with syndicated content. They're two completely different things.

      This little article explains it all. And that's written by a real expert, not someone who simply repeats nonsense from the "urban myth school of internet marketing".
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    • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
      Originally Posted by mark147 View Post

      Most of the SEO expert suggest that using duplicate content in your website may be a cause of banned by Google and other search engines. if you want to re post your article the you should have to edit at least 30% of the content.
      Well, I was going to refer you to the same article on my blog, but my good and extremely knowledgeable Warrior friend Alexa beat me to it. She has the advantage of being 6 hours in front of me.

      I assure you from many years, and many hundreds of articles written and posted both on my own blogs and websites AND in article directories (mostly EZine Articles), there is no such thing as a duplicate penalty, be it by Google, or any other deity.
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  • Profile picture of the author wildjohnny
    No, you won't get high ranking, you need to create unique content.
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaT
    Looks like two others already beat me to my comment!

    Of course, having unique content is a great idea since your readers will not want to end up reading the same article on every site they go to, but most of my sites use a mix of PLR, unique articles, and even syndicated articles if I find one I like or am in a hurry. They do fine in rankings.

    Also, don't just rewrite other people's work... If you just want to rewrite articles go buy private label rights to some and rewrite those. Otherwise you are just stealing content even if you rewrite it.

    One thing you should think about when using syndicated articles is the resource box though. I only syndicate every once and a while because when you use an article from a directory you must keep their resource box, and normally I like to control outgoing links to my site and not link outside of my own domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotelscyprus
    It is really not that hard to create an unique content for our website. I think we can do it easily. I had a bad experience with hubspot initially.. when I tried to create an article, it says it contains duplicate content.. I tried multiple times and finally give up working with hubspot. The story is, the hubspot will not take your article but google will definitely index them.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by otherx View Post

    Hi All

    I don't have much exp with this section.

    When using content from article site and using them as in, does it still give you high rank with seo?

    Will the search engines not see it or will they still ban you with this..

    Any feedback will be great ..

    Thx
    Other folks have covered the duplicate content myth quite thoroughly, so let's consider your other question.

    Will using content syndicated from article directories give you high search rankings?

    The answer is an absolute, unqualified...maybe.

    I've had sites rank well using nothing but carefully chosen articles from directories, but it's a lot harder than it was. If you don't have a lot of competition, you can still rank with good syndicated content and a good internal linking structure.

    On the other hand, if you just grab any junk article that has your keywords in it and pay no attention to links (internal or external), your odds of ranking well are pretty remote.

    Amanda mentioned controlling the links and not liking to link outside of her site. She's right, up to a point. And she probably does it for different reasons than I do. I'm guessing she doesn't want to 'leak any juice' through external links. I don't want to lose human visitors, nor do I want to link out to 'bad neighborhoods', so I like to see resource boxes that are not hard sell calls to action, and I don't like redirects. By their nature, a redirect can easily be changed to a site I don't want to give an implicit endorsement to. Maybe that's just me...

    My take on syndication, from working both sides of the fence, is that if you want to be taken seriously in a niche environment, you should mix your own original content with carefully handpicked syndicated material.

    (Notice, I said original. Not unique. Tell people they need unique content, and many automatically think of running good content through a spinner until it spits out some percentage of uniqueness as measured by a bot like Copyscape. Even if it's gibberish, it's 90% unique...)
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaT
    Yes, that is basically what I mean about the links.

    I don't like linking my users outside of my site unless I know I'm linking them to a great resource. In general I prefer to link them to other articles on my site instead of sending them off to read articles or sales pages on someone else's site.

    I agree about redirects... I want to know what I am sending my visitors to see without needed to check back to see if they changed their redirect!
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