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Similar (not duplicate) contet devalues links

by seamy82
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Hi,

I was experimenting with some strategies and I decided to link some web 2.0s to articles I published on goarticles, ezine etc. The articles I posted to the web2.0s were written to a very high standard, contained videos and only one link to one of my articles and another link (or 2) to something related to my website but well established. The article written on the web2.0 was based on the article posted in the article directory. These articles where unique, manually written and not spun. I had roughly 6 web2.0s pointing at each article and all this achieved was a drop in my rankings. All this process did was devalue my article links, at it made their content less unique. I thought this would look natural, as people constantly write articles when not trying to get backlinks and reference the website they sourced information from.

Anyone else encountered this issue?

Cheers,
Seamy
#contet #devalues #duplicate #links #similar
  • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
    Your rankings can't drop for 10 links even if you had 100% duplicate content on it.
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    • Profile picture of the author tsx
      Originally Posted by GodMode52 View Post

      Your rankings can't drop for 10 links even if you had 100% duplicate content on it.
      That is not true.
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      • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
        Originally Posted by tsx View Post

        That is not true.
        Excuse me?
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        • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
          Originally Posted by GodMode52 View Post

          Excuse me?
          I'd have to agree about you being wrong.

          On a side note, I'm sure you didnt drop in rankings because of web 2.0's pointing to these articles. It could just be coincidence.
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    • Profile picture of the author bcruan
      Originally Posted by GodMode52 View Post

      Your rankings can't drop for 10 links even if you had 100% duplicate content on it.
      Wrong, wrong,wrong
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    What about the theory behind what I am saying. Is there anything to that?
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  • Profile picture of the author gotlinks
    Duplicate content is a complete stupid idea. If it were true places like Google News would not be up and running and ranking incredibly well.
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    It seemed a long shot. Just wanted to know if anyone else encountered anything like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author jovykhan
    That is just normal. That's a movement in SERPs. Google tend to test your website by putting down in SERPs to see if your website is something people are looking for. And if Google sees that people are linking to your website then your ranking will be back in higher SERPs.

    Keep building links.
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    • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
      I'd have to agree about you being wrong.

      On a side note, I'm sure you didnt drop in rankings because of web 2.0's pointing to these articles. It could just be coincidence.
      What's wrong with you people? So you are pretending that press releases can cause negative SEO ?
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Despite the popular belief "but google news does it", duplicate content is reckless and detrimental to having a worthy for rank.

    Just because Google does it doesn't mean that it's okay. The end is near for duplicate content and I am already seeing the effects. Hell, even Ezinearticles has lost lots of ranks because they promote duplicate content.

    My advice to my clients is quality is CRITICAL. No more spam backlinks, no more duplicate articles, no more spun articles, now our focus is high quality content written for the readers, high quality PR backlinks, and most of all, building their brand.

    That is the future of SEO
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  • Profile picture of the author pinkhand
    This is very obvious that if we will spread similar content with our link in it..Google will devalue that link.Because content is king and main part in SEO.Quality content helps alot to get good rankings and traffic to the site as more readers will follow it and will get more value in google too.
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