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Article Syndication And SEO

by dewayneboyd
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Let's say I have an article and I let other sites use this same article. I am the first to publish it, and then others publish it after me.

1. Will letting others publish the article hurt my rankings even though I am the first to publish it?

2. Will the other sites who publish my article suffer in rankings by using it?
#article #seo #syndication
  • Profile picture of the author andynathan
    Dewayne,

    You are playing with fire. Some content curation that is done properly with commenting and additional content might fly. Others copying your article word for word is a good way to get banned.

    Original, engaging content. That is what Google wants. Does your content do that for other sites? Is it still original on 20 different sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Doug Pretorius
    From the horses mouth: Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help - Google Help

    Excerpt about syndicated content:

    "Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to your original article. You can also ask those who use your syndicated material to use the noindex meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing their version of the content."
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by dewayneboyd View Post

    Let's say I have an article and I let other sites use this same article. I am the first to publish it, and then others publish it after me.

    1. Will letting others publish the article hurt my rankings even though I am the first to publish it?

    2. Will the other sites who publish my article suffer in rankings by using it?
    As always the page with better SEO wins, so just because you publish your page first doesn't mean your page will be the one ranking in Google SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
    Not a good idea to build links, if anything Google will devalue your site/article/or even page its being redistributed on.
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  • Profile picture of the author LegalSecretaryofMLM
    When Google shows results, if the results are very similar, they only show one result and inform the reader that other sites have similar results so they won't show it. The site that you may want to show may not be the site that shows in Google.

    In addition, if you give your article to somebody else and they do a better job at SEO, I'm sure you'll be pretty pissed that you did the work but they got the credit.
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  • Profile picture of the author kjohns
    Originally Posted by dewayneboyd View Post

    Let's say I have an article and I let other sites use this same article. I am the first to publish it, and then others publish it after me.

    1. Will letting others publish the article hurt my rankings even though I am the first to publish it?

    2. Will the other sites who publish my article suffer in rankings by using it?
    It is fine for you because Google knows what post first. Secondly when we register on article sites they also ask us that do you have no objections on the site if your articles are distributed on other sites.
    So it is a natural phenomena and no body would be hurt from this type of syndication.
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  • Profile picture of the author Doug Pretorius
    Besides, the purpose of article syndication is to drive traffic directly from the audience reading your article on the other site. Any SEO benefit is gravy.
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