can we use the same article to get backlinks

by tamtu
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While building links do you think we can use the same article a number of times from different high PR websites to build quality back links or do we have to publish different articles for each back link...
#article #backlinks #times
  • Profile picture of the author artlan
    This issue of duplicate content has been discussed at length. My personal opinion and many will disagree, is that the fresher the content the more love you will receive from Google in terms of ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author zoobie
    well, I will suggest you rewrite your articles for each article before you submit
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  • Profile picture of the author articlemaster
    Google dont like duplicate content and its better you use fresh article for everysite and that will give you better ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jimerson Farveez
    Hey I heard that google will flag duplicate content and it is not useful... however I heard some guys are telling to do 1500+ submissions while spinning 15 articles, and they are telling that they get more traffic via google.... I am so much of confused, Is that a fallacy or true guys?
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
    You will not get valid backlinks if you are using duplicate content. Period! If you are submitting articles for the purpose of gainng backlinks then you need to submit unique content.
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO View Post

      You will not get valid backlinks if you are using duplicate content. Period! If you are submitting articles for the purpose of gainng backlinks then you need to submit unique content.
      Please explain this in more detail. I just dont understand how you can say this with such authority. Forgive me - Im a bit slow on hte uptake at times.

      Here's whats going thru my cranium at the moment ....

      If I post to my blog and auto bloggers love it ... and I release my full feed thru my RSS ... and they post my feed and ping and aggregate it on 10,000 sites in one day ...

      Will I be sandboxed?

      Will I get a duplicate content penalty?

      If my links flow thru the RSS feed and onto their sites - and they get their sites crawled - my links wont count somehow?

      So does the AP Newswire get a duplicate content penalty? Does google use a special algo for just their content or other "double secret special content writers" that they like more than me?
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      • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
        Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

        So does the AP Newswire get a duplicate content penalty? Does google use a special algo for just their content or other "double secret special content writers" that they like more than me?
        No. But people will TELL you this because this misinformation has been going around the internet for years. Even GOOGLE themselves tried to dispel it, to no avail.
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO View Post

      You will not get valid backlinks if you are using duplicate content. Period! If you are submitting articles for the purpose of gainng backlinks then you need to submit unique content.
      Funny stuff. Can I refer you to my competitors?
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  • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
    Im using duplicate content for getting backlinks and my rankings are fine, time will tell.
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  • Profile picture of the author akanglil
    what happend if i use same content but different title?
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  • Profile picture of the author franchiseshop
    It's fine, fine fine fine fine fine. :-)

    1 article, 200 article directories, 3 links in sig, 600 1 way links. Low quality links but still links. Really though it's about developing your own method. You could do 200 unique articles and post each to a different article directory. This would probably be better but would take you a hell of a lot longer, time you could be spending more wisely doing other things.

    As for the whole dupe content. Google does not frown on such things, if anything Google likes to see articles reprinted, it's like a thumbs up to that article that someone would want to reprint it. Of course that's the way a perfect world would work (one without people submitting articles by the dozen to multiple directories) however they cannot penalise against it as they would take down legitimate people also.

    Always look at it this way. If there is a legitimate reason for doing something, then the big G has it's hands tied.

    So yeah, anyway, back to the OP: Using the same article over and over is just dandy. It would be good to have a decent batch of them to use though. 500 words will get you through 99.9% of submission approvals and believe me, quality does not matter so much so knocking them out fast is simple enough.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peterson
      Hi,
      Good post.There are 3 very simple ways to get backlinks. Request a link exchange to link partners that you are seeking.Another great way to get backlinks is using an affiliate program.
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      • Profile picture of the author pts123
        Not to insult anyone, but I truly believe nobody really knows for sure...I have seen hundred of posts on this subject and some will say it is a bad idea and others will say otherwise....

        I think that every situation is different, depending on the strategy that is being used....Some people will have successful sites and other won't, and IMO what actually contributed to certain results is really hard to pin point...as many will claim to use this method or that method...

        IMO succeeding online is about constant trial and error, and to keep trying new things....If you have many sites you will notice that some will do better than others regardless if all the same techniques are applied to all

        Man! would it ever be nice to be close buddies with one of Google's search engine engineers !
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        The question about having the same article all over the place seems to
        be a popular topic here at WF. If people are using your articles, or
        you have them submitted to article websites, I can't help but
        think they are still backlinks. But backlinks alone will not get you
        ranked.

        I had a newbie nightmare using ezine articles. I had a site for my
        wife and stuffed it with literally hundreds of articles I found.
        My thinking was content, content, content. After 2 years, the
        PR was still N/A even though I had a lot of backlinks. Someone
        said when you article stuff it gets flagged. 3 months ago I scrapped
        the whole thing, turned it into a blog. Deleting all those friggin
        articles 1 at a time was a pain in the butt. Took me about a week.
        The site is now a PR 3.

        I don't know what my experience says, but it seems that using
        articles for backlinks is iffy, but using articles that are not
        unique might be bad. It seems we who submit articles are relying
        on newbies to publish them, as pros would only use unique.
        I am starting to question whether links on sites that use the
        articles are actually useful in the long run.

        Paul

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  • Profile picture of the author Amenda Jessera
    I am sure, that will result you the duplicate issue, however, If you rewrite the article for each submissions, that would be great....
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeComputerGames
    I was told that you should first publish an article on your own site about a week or so before you publish it to an article directory.
    So do you get credit for the links coming from the directory and other sites? I do not often see many backlinks from my articles being reported except from the Article Directory if that was the place of origin and I did not post the article on my site first.
    As mentioned I think duplicate content is the theft of sites content and having duplicate pages on ones own site.

    This is what Matt Cutts says about it at the 2009 Pubcon in Austin, TX..

    Matt Cutts was asked about the impact of Duplicate Content and when to use Canonical Link Tag?

    Matt Cutts: Guys, don't worry about duplicate content. Why? Because who makes the duplicate content right? The white hats, they're like, I make a valid site and maybe I had it in a different country. Maybe it's (dot)uk, and I don't want to be penalized for duplicate content; or I have a printable version of an article, and I don't want that to be viewed as duplicate content. It's really funny. Whenever someone asks me about duplicate content, I can pretty much assume that they're a white hat. It's kind of a nice little feature. So most of the time you do not need to worry. Search engines go out of their way to try to figure out, 'What is the duplicate content, how do we remove it without causing any problems whatsoever?' People very, very rarely get penalized for duplicate content.
    How can original content owner get the most page rank?
    Most of the time if we detect one page and then another page being duplicate, we will just say, 'OK this page we won't show; we will show this page instead.' If you're the person who originally wrote the content, it's very smart to embed a link to the original location of that article. And then if it ever gets scraped or copied or syndicated or whatever, that duplicate article will link to your original article. That pretty much guarantees that you, the original person who wrote that article, will have the most page rank and show up first.
    When and why to use canonical tag?
    We just introduced something about a few weeks ago called the 'canonical link tag.' And the idea is there are so many big sites that have duplicate content on their own site. Like, has anybody ever run into having www and non-www version of the site. Sometimes you tell the developers, 'Put a 301 from the www version to the non-www version,' and they don't do it, and you end up with like 18 copies of the same site, or the http version of the site and the https, secure version, of the site, sometimes those both show up. Sometimes you just have the same content, you know, sorted by ascending price and descending price.
    In an html page, you have an element in the head, and that element basically says the canonical version of this page is the preferred version of this page, the pretty version, the clean version of this url, is right here. So, for example, maybe you want all the sort prices to be increasing in price. You can say, 'okay the canonical version of this page is sort equals ascending,' or something like that. And it's very very simple. We treat it just like a 301 pretty much.
    What about hijacking?
    Can't I say that if I hack into this guy's site right here, maybe the canonical version is my black hat site. In order to prevent that from being an issue, you can only do the canonical tag within your own site. So that's the automatic safety valve that prevents against any kind of hijacking.
    Now is it possible to have problems?
    It is. IBM shot themselves in the foot with the canonical link tag. Whenever you visited the home page, they did a redirect and they also set the canonical link tag to be a page that was like a 404 and had never been crawled by Google. Yeah. That's not good. So for a couple of days, we were like, 'IBM.com?null,' you know, or something like that. So don't just jump into this. Take a little bit of time. Plan out how you're going to do the canonical tag. Make sure that it makes sense. There's time. It's not an emergency, but it's a really great way to solve any duplicate content problems.

    Source: blog.milestoneinternet.com/web-development/faq-on-duplicate-content-and-moving-your-site-by-matt-cutts-at-pubcon-2009/
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  • Profile picture of the author ezimedia
    HI

    I submit the same article to over 500 article directories... and get a lot of blog owners pickup my article and post it on their blogs... so my goal is to get my article on as many blogs as I can.. building my backlinks and growing my traffic.. not all blog owners use the same article directory to find articles to post on their blogs.

    Thx
    Tom
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  • Profile picture of the author devidmark
    HI
    Google dont like duplicate content.
    So its better to use fresh article for every site and that will give good back link,traffic and also help u to get good PR as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author webmatic
    Well you will get more confused after getting some more posts about it.
    It's like some people think that google don't like duplicate content so if you can't write a fresh article then re-write the original one again and again and use on different sites.
    Some people submit the same article on different sites specially article directories so i think so that's ok to use because you are giving a link back to your site in the resource box so it's not a duplicate content.
    Thanks
    Webmatic
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