Articles as website content and in article directories

Please note that this reply is to the best of my knowledge, and there seem to be vastly differing opinions concerning this issue.

1. Google has stated many times over that there is no 'duplicate content penalty' per se, but that sites that use a lot of duplicated content for the sole purpose of affecting search engine rankings will be penalized.

Here's the thing: Although there might not be a penalty, you would be better off by having only unique articles appearing on your website. Why? Well, simply because you will gain benefits from it as being unique content, rather than search engines simply ignoring it (even if they aren't penalizing you for it). So I would suggest spinning or rewriting the articles completely.

2. I should confess that I am no great expert in article submissions, but it would seem like it is perfectly okay to submit the same article to multiple directories. What you are looking for in article submissions is, essentially, the back links. Therefore it is of no affect to you directly if the same article appears on 1000 directories or other websites, as long as the link remains intact.

Hope this clears things up for you a little,

-Vish.

If you are teh site owner means if the Artical is your own which you will be suppose to be submit with Artical Directory there is no problem suppose some time we used another artical in our site post and belwo we mention Artical sourse:...... if you artical like that you could be face problem.

Is it ok to submit the same article to multiple directories?- It would be better if you do not use same artical for more site slitely change

Mass submitting a single article is okay for traffic to your site from readers of the article but I think only the article on a site with the most authority in Google's eyes will be the originator and benefit from the ranking value.

I like that I can put links to 2 different pages on my site in EACH article I submit with anchor text I choose does more good in linking power. 10 articles equals 20 links to my site with 10 being the home page and 10 to internal pages.

You can start submitting unique articles for your 5 page site and gradually build site content too.

I read elsewhere in this forum a strategy that works well and it is:

Add a new page to the site.
Submit a fresh article to EzineArticles linking to that page and the home page.
Mass submit another unique article using an article submitter or a service like isnare.

The above approach will gradually build both SE rank plus traffic from your articles IF they are targeted at longtail keywords with lighter competition.

I add one additional step to the above and that is to social bookmark my EZA articles once they have been approved.

Submitting unique articles bring the best long-term success. I don't recommend submitting your web site content to article directories. While it is easier than writing a new article, it makes no sense to dilute your own web site content that way.

Gunter

I have a 28 page site that I created nearly 2 yrs ago. I submitted each article on the site to different article directories 30 days after it was origially posted on my site. 2 years later I continue to have my main keywords rank in the top 10 on Google. I don't claim that this is the right way or wrong way of doing this. I am only sharing the facts.

a previous poster hit it on the head, post the original on your own site first, wait till it gets indexed, then post multiple 'wrangled' versions of it on the directories. Make them shorter than the original too, to make sure your original gets the attention it deserves.