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Use the same articles for content and article directories?

by petzergling
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If i'm getting articles written for my site to publish as content, should I be using different articles to post on my blog and submit to article directories? Or can I just use the same ones for both and google won't punish me for duplicate content
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    As far as you are controlling the contents, post unique or spinned version of articles on each different source.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Potts
    One piece of advice is to let Google index it as your content first. So wait a week or 2 after posting the content on your blog to post it out to other sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Matt Baker
      Originally Posted by Jon Potts View Post

      One piece of advice is to let Google index it as your content first. So wait a week or 2 after posting the content on your blog to post it out to other sites.
      Great tips! I've been doing this strategy
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  • Profile picture of the author mekap04
    Publish the articles on the site that you want your traffic to come to first. Then, once it is indexed by Google, you can submit the same version of the articles to other places.
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    • Profile picture of the author LinkVariety
      Originally Posted by mekap04 View Post

      Publish the articles on the site that you want your traffic to come to first. Then, once it is indexed by Google, you can submit the same version of the articles to other places.
      No! Never do this!

      Create good content for your owwn sites.
      Spin cheap crap for directories.
      Never mix the two.

      If you spin and syndicate your money site content you devalue it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
        Originally Posted by LinkVariety View Post

        No! Never do this!

        Create good content for your owwn sites.
        Spin cheap crap for directories.
        Never mix the two.

        If you spin and syndicate your money site content you devalue it.
        Create great content for article syndication and even better content for your own site. Article syndication gives you the opportunity to reach a new audience so why give that audience the impression your writing is not just ordinary but a waste of space?

        If you are just submitting for backlinks then you will get more backlinks from a wider range of sites if you write great content. Sure, some autoblogs will scrape your article but the quality sites which will give you quality links will have some quality control in place to make sure they only use quality content from article directories. This then leads to an alternate traffic source.
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        • Profile picture of the author LinkVariety
          Originally Posted by Fraggler View Post

          Create great content for article syndication and even better content for your own site. Article syndication gives you the opportunity to reach a new audience so why give that audience the impression your writing is not just ordinary but.....
          Article directories are overflowing content garbage dumps, i would not waste anything decent on them.
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          • Profile picture of the author emavens
            My advice would be don't use same content for your blog and to submit in the directories.

            If you really want to then Publish content at your Blog First.
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  • Profile picture of the author prcys
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    Originally Posted by petzergling View Post

    If i'm getting articles written for my site to publish as content, should I be using different articles to post on my blog and submit to article directories? Or can I just use the same ones for both and google won't punish me for duplicate content
    You can submit your article on multiple article directories and for this google will not penalised your site. But do not put the same content on your site and on different pages as it will consider as the copied content. But yes if you have the separate blog related site then by providing the source link of your site , you can post the same article.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ezra Anderson
    There's different opinions as to what people think Google is "okay with". Personally, I think that you use your best stuff for your website, and then spun/outsourced articles to the directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    I would advise you to submit different content on article directories.

    Reason...

    If, by chance, your article gets indexed first followed by indexing of your website... Google will assume that your website has copied content from article directories and filter pages of your website from search results and display articles instead.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
    Rubbish!

    What search would return the article directory's instead of the blog's? It needs to be a specific search.

    Google will take on-site and off-site SEO into account and will return the best result, not the first published.
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  • Profile picture of the author fordsmith
    You must use the different contents of articles because if you use the same contents than it might be possible that you will be marked as a spammer and the google will banned your site from the search engine.
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