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Does unique articles really help on SEO?

by Devilfish168
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I noticed some sites their articles not unique yet manage to lure a lot visitors

wonder how they do that?

Reasons they harvest a lot of backlink to it?
#articles #seo #unique
  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    Yeah, it happens because even if their articles are not unique they are able to target the right keywords and get ranked. But if you have truely unique content then you will get ranked eventually just you have to reach your target audience when they realize your potential the search engines will like your content too.
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    If a site has a long history and already gained authority over the years, they can still rank despite duplicate content. However for new sites, it's a lot harder to rank and gain traffic from organic results without unique content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    They may have a lot of traffic, but IMO, if the articles are not good, their bounce rate is also extremely high! So, what's the point in having a ton of traffic if you can't gain anything from it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
      Originally Posted by Slade556 View Post

      They may have a lot of traffic, but IMO, if the articles are not good, their bounce rate is also extremely high! So, what's the point in having a ton of traffic if you can't gain anything from it?
      perhaps for CPC , like adsense etc ?
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      • Profile picture of the author expmrb
        Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

        perhaps for CPC , like adsense etc ?
        Yeah some might think of it like that but the better the content the more is engagement and more revenue from CPC.
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

    I noticed some sites their articles not unique yet manage to lure a lot visitors
    wonder how they do that?
    Reasons they harvest a lot of backlink to it?
    Some of the reason is the article that they re-produce is coming from new and interesting story and deriving from its original source they are adding more features on the content to make it new and more interesting from the others.
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  • Profile picture of the author devi10
    Absolutely, Unique content has a good weight-age in Page Rank.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by devi10 View Post

      Absolutely, Unique content has a good weight-age in Page Rank.
      Nope. Pagerank comes from backlinks.

      Uniqueness doesn't really mean that much. Even if you've got an article that's technically unique it might not get anywhere if more authoritative sites are writing on a topic that hits the same keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by devi10 View Post

      Absolutely, Unique content has a good weight-age in Page Rank.
      Unique content has nothing to do with PageRank.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hemanth Malli
    Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

    I noticed some sites their articles not unique yet manage to lure a lot visitors

    wonder how they do that?

    Reasons they harvest a lot of backlink to it?
    Hi,

    Of course they will get a lot of visitors along with high bounce rate, then they can't gain anything with that traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by Hemanth Malli View Post

      Of course they will get a lot of visitors along with high bounce rate, then they can't gain anything with that traffic.
      High bounce rate isn't really good or bad in itself. You need to know other factors to analyze the situation. You could even get some sort of conversion without the visitor ever continuing further from the first page she landed on.
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  • Profile picture of the author SandraGenJobs
    There are no rules here. Unique content is good to have, but if your only goal is a high page rank, it's not completely necessary. On the other hand, you can have the greatest content ever, but if you don't target your keywords properly, it doesn't mean much. You could generate some traffic but without any significant conversion rate.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Only with UNIQUE content and without so many backlinks you will also get a good ranking, but this will happen in a few months (or even years). Yes, this is the KING, but sometimes you could use spunned or content that you copy from another website (it's a good idea to place a link source!) and work on the keyword ranking!
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by patco View Post

      Only with UNIQUE content and without so many backlinks you will also get a good ranking, but this will happen in a few months (or even years). Yes, this is the KING, but sometimes you could use spunned or content that you copy from another website (it's a good idea to place a link source!) and work on the keyword ranking!
      You just contradict yourself six ways from Sunday...

      As most of the lot of you do above. Completely clueless psycho-babel.

      Dig this:

      Oh yeah unique will only rank, but if you copy you can rank too, and if you do copy,
      give a link, and if you don't copy, you will rank, cuz only unique will rank, but it's
      okay to spin or copy, but only do backlink and unique, bad content never ranks like
      unique...blah blah blah.

      You people can't possible repeat what you write with a straight face.

      Unique has nothing to do with ranking. Anyone that says it does, has no
      clue as to how the internet works.

      Every big site from ebay to amazon, from yahoo to google, from NYT to
      wikipedia uses the same content as a zillion other sites do.

      Oh yeah....wikipedia won't rank. Ditto with amazon.

      Here's another funny thing. Almost 100% of content on .gov sites, is
      open for copying. It is public domain. It's owned by the tax payers and
      they can use it as they please. So many sites do....but hey! Then
      you tell people to go out and get a .gov link!

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    • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
      Originally Posted by patco View Post

      Only with UNIQUE content and without so many backlinks you will also get a good ranking, but this will happen in a few months (or even years). Yes, this is the KING, but sometimes you could use spunned or content that you copy from another website (it's a good idea to place a link source!) and work on the keyword ranking!
      I doubt so?
      I happen to think like you and ask here before.
      Copy other content BUT place the link source.

      Many WR gave me a negative reply and comment google don't like this if you want your site rank higher.
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  • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
    Unique content that targets the same keywords should in theory rank higher in search engine rankings then if you copied someone else's content.... Google is getting better at recognizing content and evaluating it.


    Google takes a lot of factors into account when it ranks your site, thus I would say yes unique content helps SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author sheenagoyal13
    unique content is the king SEO it provides best traffic.users always like unique content.
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  • Profile picture of the author brainmineae
    As a SEO white hat technique rule, Article should have 100 % Unique contents and it should be written keeping in mind Your targeted audience with right keywords highlighted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Xochitl Shat
    Yea, from time to time it happens of which many web sites haven't employed the initial posts, they are able to receive plenty of guests. Nevertheless, personally It is best to of which, if you are using the appropriate way along with distinctive information of your internet site, you will also can get a huge amount of guests of which perhaps you won't imagine.
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