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posting your content on forums

by RickCopy
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Ive noticed that quite a few forums in my niche allow me to direct link to a piece of content on my site in a post, but require the post to contain the same text as on the site, I dont mind posting my content in its entirety as long as I can throw a link in there as well... however im concerned about having an issue with duplicate content. Is google going to care if a few of my articles have been posted on some forums?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    No. Google won't care about the placement of your article in more than one place.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by RickCopy View Post

    Ive noticed that quite a few forums in my niche allow me to direct link to a piece of content on my site in a post, but require the post to contain the same text as on the site, I dont mind posting my content in its entirety as long as I can throw a link in there as well... however im concerned about having an issue with duplicate content.
    That isn't duplicate content, Rick: it's syndicated content. The differences between the two are briefly explained in this post and this little article.

    There's no "penalty" for it, anyway, which I think is what you're asking?

    Originally Posted by RickCopy View Post

    Is google going to care if a few of my articles have been posted on some forums?
    Not in the slightest. Mine are posted in their entirety on large numbers of other websites. I'm an article marketer. So are countless others - syndicated content is everywhere.

    (It's still possible, in any individual case, if the forum ranks well enough and your own site badly enough, for a syndicated copy to outrank you, though. That's often temporary, and the more initial indexation-rights you acquire for your own site by having all your content published and indexed there first, the less likely it is to happen.)

    The thread probably belongs here, really: Adsense / PPC / SEO Discussion Forum
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