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How is a re-spun article outranking my original?

by Roell
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Title says it all.

I wrote an original article, posted it first to my site and after a week submitted it to Ezine articles. Well, lo and behold, a few weeks later I'm seeing my original article now re-spun a few dozen times! Beyond the fact that most of these re-spun articles are incoherent and grammatically butchered, some of them are outranking my originally posted article!

What's the use of submitting to article directories for backlinking purposes if all it is is a repository for people (lazy thieves) to come by, find your article, and then spin it and spam it out over the web?
#article #original #outranking #respun
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Roell View Post

    What's the use of submitting to article directories for backlinking purposes
    None, really.

    But that's not what article directories are there for.

    There's no point in trying to use article directories for their own backlinks: that isn't how they work at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Sneen
    Well-said. You only want to place an article in the directory, that you wouldn't mind if it gets spammed.

    Obviously, some of the plagiarists have a better link connection than you.

    By the way, submitting articles to directories has no backlink value. They are a PR-0.
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by David Sneen View Post

      Well-said. You only want to place an article in the directory, that you wouldn't mind if it gets spammed.
      I wouldn't necessarily encourage people to upload to directories only those articles they don't mind being plagiarised, because they'll usually represent their lowest quality work, which kind of devalues the directories for everyone at a time when some are going through great pains to raise standards. Not good.

      Originally Posted by David Sneen View Post

      Obviously, some of the plagiarists have a better link connection than you.
      Not for long, providing you're proactive about monitoring and taking action in relation to breaches of your copyright. DMCA requests are your friend.
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      • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
        Roell, I know how frustrating that is! I've had it happen to me

        The first thing you need to do is contact the sites that have spun your article and demand that they either publish it in its original form (with all appropriate links intact), or remove it from their site altogether. If they don't comply or don't even have a "contact" area (as many of these thieves don't), file a DMCA with Google. It only takes a couple of minutes. I've done this several times, and each time, I've gotten notice that the offending page has been removed from the search results.


        Originally Posted by David Sneen View Post

        By the way, submitting articles to directories has no backlink value. They are a PR-0.
        Submitting articles that aren't good enough to get syndicated has no backlink value. But if your article gets syndicated (legally and within the directory's terms of service), you can get a massive SEO boost from it. After all, your article will wind up on sites in your niche - presumably on pages with a PR that's higher than 0. Plus, you'll get relevant links - a big bonus in Google's eyes.

        Publish an article that isn't very good, and, yes, it will just sit there - never fetching you anything besides that PR0 link.

        Originally Posted by Roell View Post

        I was doing article marketing based on what successful IM'ers say to do as part of the whole link building strategy. They all pretty much say to mass submit articles to multiple directories in order to rank your site higher.
        Unfortunately, a number of those "successful IMers" also have "blasting" or "mass submitting" software to sell you - which is why they're so keen on the topic In reality, blasting articles to a bunch of sub-par directories doesn't give you anything but a bunch of PR0 links. That's because those low-level directories aren't high-traffic sites (so your articles have little, if any, chance of getting syndicated). And, because they're so low on the totem pole, it can take them weeks or months to get spidered - meaning that it could take you weeks or months to get your PR0 link altogether!
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  • Profile picture of the author JOSourcing
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    Sorry to hear your troubles, Roell. It happens to the best of us. My advice is to simply learn from this experience and restrict your content to your own URL. For whatever reasons, people seem to disregard EA's rules and think its contributed content is open to abuse.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Roell View Post

      They all pretty much say to mass submit articles to multiple directories in order to rank your site higher.
      Nobody who is earning any money from article marketing says this, at all. That isn't "article marketing" - it's just "article directory marketing". Those backlinks have almost no value at all.

      The people saying that are the ones selling "backlinking services" and "mass submitters" and "spinning software" - not people making a living through article marketing.

      Even before all the Panda updates devalued the article directories so much, throughout 2011, SEO textbook writers were explaining in detail why you'd need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those backlinks to confer the linkjuice equivalent to that from one backlink on a relevant authority site.

      Originally Posted by JOSourcing View Post

      My advice is to simply learn from this experience and restrict your content to your own URL.
      This "advice" is every bit as misguided as the idea of using article directories for their own backlinks. :rolleyes:

      It's exactly the opposite to what all those of us here who are successfully making our livings and building our businesses by article marketing are doing.

      Why do people keep regurgitating and perpetuating this grotesquely ill-informed nonsense from the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing?

      Having your content syndicated as widely (just not to multiple useless article directories) as possible works wonders!

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  • Profile picture of the author Roell
    thanks guys.

    I was doing article marketing based on what successful IM'ers say to do as part of the whole link building strategy. They all pretty much say to mass submit articles to multiple directories in order to rank your site higher.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by Roell View Post

      thanks guys.

      I was doing article marketing based on what successful IM'ers say to do as part of the whole link building strategy. They all pretty much say to mass submit articles to multiple directories in order to rank your site higher.
      Yup but when "they all" say to "mass submit articles to multiple directories", you should test it.

      You have and now you will know better than to listen to those self proclaimed successful IM'ers, all saying the same thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
    Agreed. A DMCA notice should solve this issue.

    Although if they are so grammatically butchered, it shouldn't be too much of a problem that they are stealing. I doubt they are converting.
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