Article Marketing Robot - my experience

Google does not penalize or punish for such duplicate content.

Only for duplicate content with malicious intent or fraudulent intention.

At worst, Google will just pick only one or a few of the articles to index while the others go to the supplementary listing or not listed at all.

See this article => Duplicate Content

As for getting massive links at a go through the means stated, at worst, Google will disregard the links for quite a while or all together. It has no bearing on your existing SEO structure.

It seems there is an algorithm update. Several people have the same problem. Just wait a fe days and see what happens.

Sounds like the Google Dance to me.

I've blasted 9 articles to over 1,000 article directories (each, so up to 9,0000 dirs) over the space of about a month and never been deindexed. All article's backlinks pointed to just one (two-month old) site, too.

Sure my rankings have done the tango with the Big G, but they always come back.

In short, don't worry about it.

Building links is kind of like gonig to the gym; when you first start exercising, it hurts (just like rankings going down). If you exercise too hard, you can pull a muscle (a major decline in rankings). The main thing in link building, just like exercising, is to start small and work your way up. If you build too many at once, you will take a major dive in the rankings. Still build small amounts consistantly, just as if you were recovering gradually from a pulled muscle. Always expect at least a slight dive in rankings after building links, just like pain after going to the gym. In time, the pain goes away, and the rankings increase. I usually see about a six week turnaround time from the time the rankings go down from my efforts to when the ranking gets higher. I always keep my efforts up, even after a dive in rankings. Overall, keep up the effort, but just in smaller doses at a time, and you will see your rankings go up. Article marketing always has been, and most likely always will be the most effective way of increasing your rankings online.

plain and simple..AMR did NOTHING to make this happen!...

Rule #1 of SEO

Never look at rankings on a daily basis. At most, look at it weekly. It is the only way to keep one's sanity.

Also, don't worry about. Just keep on building links and you'll be higher than you've been before.

Tom