MisterGemini
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- May 25, 2010
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Let me clarify this point, as I can see why it can be so confusing.
Duplicate Content - By the definition in relation to how google views it, is an issue which first originated way back in the day when sites could have literally dozens if not hundreds of pages of the SAME CONTENT. Yes folks, all you spammers were even lazier back then.
Beyond this issue, there was a legitimate issue concerning link structure, and how google could even mistakenly deem a page on your site as being two pages instead of one. This was about the same time that tags started to make their appearance, and pagenation, so with these duplicate methods of linking, it generated what appeared to be multiple pages of the same content.
Also note that if you did something like ohhh I dunno, took 5 spun articles, and then created say 100 out of them, and posted them all to the same site. You don't think this will indeed appear and trip out the duplicate content penalty with the minor spin tweaks done to essentially the same content? You would be surprised how many have done this, and why they think it was because they used someone elses article... let me continue.
This took the SEO world by storm as discussion about it rose to swelling heights over how to combat this new 'penilty'. It was and still is ineed a penilty. Back then google had a hard time dealing with it by algo, so they simply passed it onto the webmasters (in their usual fashion to make up for their own lacking) who did not follow a link structure that prevented dup content, otherwise, WHAMO, your pages start disppearing from the SERPs.
Now, this is where it got mixed up. Inbetween all this discussion about a new penality for duplicate content, little BH peons caught wind of this new boogieman that threatened their devious site efforts. The guilt of taking others content and using it for their own, then was transferred into this notion that the duplicate content penality everyone was talking about, was in fact about us guys (BHers) taking content for their own site. The BH dup content boogieman was born and he was one funky fish.
This is where it all started. Now today, you will still hear a few cry about this boogieman, but everytime I have actually looked at what people were doing with the reposted articles they were using, I could see a myriad of other issues that were more likely to get them deindexed or dropped in the serps. Don't assume when people say 'yeah man try yourself and find out, I had X number of sites and lost them all doing that' that they did everything else right. Remember that by nature, people who want to republish articles are as lazy as they come, your odds are good that they missed, or didn't know any better about the stuff they were doing.
Before I get a ton of replies with every person who has done spun articles about me saying they are lazy.. c'mon guys, just don't go their. I said it was 'by nature'. Remember where we are too, everyone here has a #1 goal of shortcutting in some way or another.
So bottom line, how would/do I use articles?
If you do this, you actually end up with something that is fairly unique compared to what you likely are using. Note that this is very different from taking a directory full of 500 articles and running them all through best spinner then uploading them to your WP site expecting to see your adsense checks come rolling in.
This takes some marketing intelligence, this takes some skill. That only comes with knowledge and experience. Just make sure with everything you do, you take away from it the right lessons. Don't ever assume that the results you get are the things that you have heard everyone else talk about. Track, analyse, and study for yourself. You are the one in complete control of your own experience, and the lessons they bring.
You can indeed get search traffic from your articles this way. The duplicate content penality is from within a domain, not across the entire world wide web.
End of Line.
Mister Gemini
Duplicate Content - By the definition in relation to how google views it, is an issue which first originated way back in the day when sites could have literally dozens if not hundreds of pages of the SAME CONTENT. Yes folks, all you spammers were even lazier back then.
Beyond this issue, there was a legitimate issue concerning link structure, and how google could even mistakenly deem a page on your site as being two pages instead of one. This was about the same time that tags started to make their appearance, and pagenation, so with these duplicate methods of linking, it generated what appeared to be multiple pages of the same content.
Also note that if you did something like ohhh I dunno, took 5 spun articles, and then created say 100 out of them, and posted them all to the same site. You don't think this will indeed appear and trip out the duplicate content penalty with the minor spin tweaks done to essentially the same content? You would be surprised how many have done this, and why they think it was because they used someone elses article... let me continue.
This took the SEO world by storm as discussion about it rose to swelling heights over how to combat this new 'penilty'. It was and still is ineed a penilty. Back then google had a hard time dealing with it by algo, so they simply passed it onto the webmasters (in their usual fashion to make up for their own lacking) who did not follow a link structure that prevented dup content, otherwise, WHAMO, your pages start disppearing from the SERPs.
Now, this is where it got mixed up. Inbetween all this discussion about a new penality for duplicate content, little BH peons caught wind of this new boogieman that threatened their devious site efforts. The guilt of taking others content and using it for their own, then was transferred into this notion that the duplicate content penality everyone was talking about, was in fact about us guys (BHers) taking content for their own site. The BH dup content boogieman was born and he was one funky fish.
This is where it all started. Now today, you will still hear a few cry about this boogieman, but everytime I have actually looked at what people were doing with the reposted articles they were using, I could see a myriad of other issues that were more likely to get them deindexed or dropped in the serps. Don't assume when people say 'yeah man try yourself and find out, I had X number of sites and lost them all doing that' that they did everything else right. Remember that by nature, people who want to republish articles are as lazy as they come, your odds are good that they missed, or didn't know any better about the stuff they were doing.
Before I get a ton of replies with every person who has done spun articles about me saying they are lazy.. c'mon guys, just don't go their.
I said it was 'by nature'. Remember where we are too, everyone here has a #1 goal of shortcutting in some way or another.So bottom line, how would/do I use articles?
- If you are going to use an already published article, at least apply your own SEO knowledge to it to make it 1% better.
- Apply your own marketing knowledge to make it 1% converting better
- Market it, don't leave it to the submissions dirs to do the work for you. It's building links to your articles that is going to make them produce.
If you do this, you actually end up with something that is fairly unique compared to what you likely are using. Note that this is very different from taking a directory full of 500 articles and running them all through best spinner then uploading them to your WP site expecting to see your adsense checks come rolling in.
This takes some marketing intelligence, this takes some skill. That only comes with knowledge and experience. Just make sure with everything you do, you take away from it the right lessons. Don't ever assume that the results you get are the things that you have heard everyone else talk about. Track, analyse, and study for yourself. You are the one in complete control of your own experience, and the lessons they bring.
You can indeed get search traffic from your articles this way. The duplicate content penality is from within a domain, not across the entire world wide web.
End of Line.
Mister Gemini
