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| | The Minding Your Own Business Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | articles and duplicant content penalty | Views: 608 | | May 03, 2006 7:17 pm | | articles and duplicant content penalty | # | 
Ron Amundson | | One of the things I'm a fan of is the creative common's license. I have mine configured for Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike. and I've been debating on whether that is good or bad when it comes to SEO penalties. In effect, I'm almost advocating duplicate content with that license.
Otoh, I've seen article farms, and also come across people marketing their services by allowing others to copy their content as long as back links and credit are given. Its also fairly common marketing advice, but it too, is duplicate content.
I'd appreciate hearing opinions on this. Sure, getting ones name around is good, but if it means you get whacked by the search engines, it could be counterproductive.
Thank you
Ron Private Reply to Ron Amundson | | May 03, 2006 9:21 pm | | re: articles and duplicant content penalty | # | 
Reg Charie | | From general consensus on forums like WebProWorld, if you are going to publish articles, then publish them first on your own site, wait for them to be spidered, then publish on the article farm.
The duplicate content penalty is exactly what it says, "duplicate content". By establishing the first publication date the article on your site is not a duplicate.
RegPrivate Reply to Reg Charie | | May 03, 2006 10:05 pm | | re: articles and duplicate content penalty | # | 
Denise O'Berry | | Ron --
Good subject. I prefer to call it a duplicate content filter rather than a penalty. A website is not penalized for having duplicate content, it's just that in the determination of what the search engines serve up the site is filtered out of the results or sent to far reaching results pages.
I've been using articles as a marketing vehicle on the 'net since 1998. It's just as good a strategy today as it was then (if not better).
Regardless of the Google duplicate content filter, people will find your website via those articles. Happens to me all the time.
Most of the time (most!), I don't post articles on my website that I submit to article directories. The content that is on my site is typically original or spun differently than articles that are sent for syndication.
Best regards,
Denise O'Berry
Network LeaderPrivate Reply to Denise O'Berry | | May 03, 2006 10:07 pm | | re: re: articles and duplicate content penalty | # |
Denise O'Berry | | Must be having a CRS moment...
I forgot to mention an article that included an experiment testing out the duplicate content filter.
You can read it here:
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/Duplicate-Content-Penalties-Problems-with-Googles-Filter/
Make sure you read all five pages.
Best regards,
Denise O'BerryPrivate Reply to Denise O'Berry | | May 04, 2006 8:53 pm | | re: re: re: articles and duplicate content penalty | # | 
Deena Gainor | | Wow, Denise. What a great article. I was feeling a bit lost about this topic and about to post a question when I saw your post with the article. It helped me to understand a bit more about what the debate is.
My husband and I have been talking a lot more about article marketing and how it can be helpful. It's a totally new world for me, though. I just discovered ezinearticles.com It seemed like a great discovery (through Ryze, I must say) and I just submitted my first article, which was approved yesterday.
I was extremely excited. But given what you all are talking about, is this something that people should be investing their time in? According to you, Denise, it seems like it is still working, despite Google.
And then there is blogging. Are blogs found the same way articles are? And are they worth investing some time with as well?
I know, too many questions. This is just so interesting to me! And definitely an area in which I would love to grow. Thanks for the great posts.
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