"Article marketing" and duplicate content

That is a very good question. it has been asked before and you might get mixed answers to it.

I would say it is duplicate content but all that will happen is the links will be devalued on any sited considered to be duplicate after the "origional" therefore it is simply a waste of time and you should submit to only unique articles to a few of the best directories.

The linked site probably does not get penalty from this type of duplicate content but it is a waste of time submitting over and over.

Yes it is ok.

Duplicate content is only referring to having the same content on pages within your website.

Which just means Google will only rank one of the pages as opposed to all of them.

^ Makes sense, thank you very much.
What are the best article directories to submit to?

Also, aren't those article directories just trying to steal people's niches (or maybe the people who frequent them are doing that?). :rolleyes: :confused: :rolleyes: :confused:

I guess a lot of people are doing this...

As long as the article is on all different sites it is not considered duplicate content. It is only considered duplicate content if the same site has the same article more than once. Submitting the same article to a bunch of different sites will still get you a backlink from each of those sites.

Aren't those article directories just trying to steal people's niches (or maybe the people who frequent them are doing that?). :rolleyes: :confused: :rolleyes: :confused:

I have been submitting the same articles to multiple directories and it has been working. Saves time and money!

Alright, what are some good and tested directories for submitting articles?

To make article marketing work, what you need is a quality article. I have seen some writing services here at warrior forum offer article directory articles for $ 5 and research articles for $ 25. You need the $ 25 article and not $5. If your aim is to get as many article directory back links as possible then the $5 might do but if you want it to get syndicated by other websites and blogs you really need the best quality article.

Although backlink from article directories are fine and can send your site quite a lot of traffic, you should still aim for the high syndication rate.

Lets say that you got a really good article about 'dog training' and you have spent $ 25 on it and you submit it to some major article directories and also some niche article directories if there are any article directories for that niche and then some websites and blogs that are concentrating on 'dog training' see that and they would say: " hey, that is a good information, our user would like to read it as well, lets publish it on our site" and then you have gained a relevant backlink to your site that will send you highly targeted traffic. And with good article it should not be problem to get at least 20 sites to syndicate it. So for $ 25 dollars you have gained 20 highly relevant baclinks plus links form article directories as well and that article just keeps working for you without any additional work at your part. Article marketing is the cheapest and easiest way to get quality relevant backlinks.

i've been doing this. submitting same articles on different directories. and it actually helps and saves time.

and you know what.. as long as the link is 'dofollow', it doesn't matter if the content is same in every article directory or not. so just look for the 'dofollow' backlinks and don't worry about the content. hope this helps.

I've worked about 15 articles and have gotten a lot better at spinning them, but it takes about 12 hours per article to do a high % spin. And a LOT of concentration. Most people don't do this, which is why so many of the spun articles out there are bad.

With that said, I've submitted the articles to several hundred directories and have gotten backlinks from maybe 20 or 30 of them, total.

The rest are, I guess, too low quality to count, but the ones that do, do, so that is a good thing.

But the articles aren't the same article. Spun, but similar.

I've worked about 15 articles and have gotten a lot better at spinning them, but it takes about 12 hours per article to do a high % spin. And a LOT of concentration. Most people don't do this, which is why so many of the spun articles out there are bad.

With that said, I've submitted the articles to several hundred directories and have gotten backlinks from maybe 20 or 30 of them, total.

The rest are, I guess, too low quality to count, but the ones that do, do, so that is a good thing.

But the articles aren't the same article. Spun, but similar.

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There's so much to be said on this topic and so much has
already been said in here. There are basically two factions -
those who say duplicate content doesn't matter and those
who say it does. Both factions have strong points, but
are both of them right? That's the question!

I guess everyone should TEST things out thoroughly to
decide for themselves whether duplicate content matters or
not.

For me (and my house, ) duplicate content matters,
now more than ever, so submitting the exact same article
to hundreds of sites (whether article directories or not) is
just a waste of time!

That's why Article Spinning came about, in the first place.

But then again, that's just me. To each his own,

Kingsley

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There's also the question of how much duplicating does Google care about? I have essays that people write, which I post on usually two blogs and the article directory. So each article is posted maybe 3x. Does google notice every bit of duplication?