Is this statement true, Need some seo pros!!

deth_by_uv said:

Engine102, reread aftershocks post...

You have to submit ORIGINAL/UNIQUE content to the directories as aftershock stated...

He's talking about the authority sites when submitting your article which gives you authority links...

So Xcptn must mean that you can use the same article to submit to other non-authority directories for backlinks...

However if you're submitting to authorities like ezinearticles, squidoo, hub, scribd etc. - then yes, you must use original (20 different variations) articles per site...

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Hey guys,

Actually, you all are close but the articles ' DON'T ' have to be different articles. They only haveto be ' unique ' as in ' you ' writing/compiling them for you to legally submit them to the directories.

As for the posting part of it, you can post the one article on every directory, as well as content on your website due to you being the one that produced the article.

Here:

1. write/construct the article.

2. post the article on your own relevant website in it's original format.

3. post the article on all of the article directories that you like to use, again, in it's original format.

The confusion here is that ' articles don't lose their unique value, ' no matter how many times they are posted on other user's sites...that is what makes article marketing so viral...because every time a user posts a link to your article from any given directory, it is a backlink to you via that directory.

As long as your article is getting links and views via the directory, you WANT more people to share your content around. If you look at your stats in the article directory accounts, where you original post the articles, you can track how many views/reads and links(other article directory members using your content linked to their site ), which gives you ' authority ranking ' within that directory.

This gives you more creditability with the community as well as with the search engines as a recognized article writer and niche authority. That means that you start to get noticed and your pagerank goes up across the board with every search engine, which is what brings you even more natural ranking and traffic in the page positions.

Aftershock,

So you are saying that by submitting the exact same article that you wrote on a post, same content, nothing changes, that is ok? Or am I just confused because you are saying that "unique" doesn't mean different content?

Ahhh.....I need a break! lmao

Semi-true. Mostly false.

If you entire site is based on duplicate content from other websites through in through RSS feeds your site will eventually get sifted out.

If you have both duplicate content from other sites as well as your own unique content on your own site, then true. Google will still like you.

Thanks ac,

So, to get my thick head clear, if I write a post on one of my sites, should I take the same post and submit it, or rewrite it? I have been rewriting it so that my site will still show as "unique" and original. I then take the rewritten article and submit it to between 5 and 20 directories.

Good? Bad? OK?

Here's an idea, and I'd like to get opinions, especially from anyone who has done this -

Let's say that I have a PLR article, the same article that several other people have and I put it on my website. I do the proper SEO to the page, like keywords in title, headline, image alt tags - all the normal SEO stuff.

Now here's where things get a little different. In between each paragraph of the article, I insert a short news snippet that's directly related to the topic of the page. Since the article has several paragraphs, there would be several news snippets separating them all.

Do you think that the search engines would now view such a page as unique content?

interpro said:

Here's an idea, and I'd like to get opinions, especially from anyone who has done this -

Let's say that I have a PLR article, the same article that several other people have and I put it on my website. I do the proper SEO to the page, like keywords in title, headline, image alt tags - all the normal SEO stuff.

Now here's where things get a little different. In between each paragraph of the article, I insert a short news snippet that's directly related to the topic of the page. Since the article has several paragraphs, there would be several news snippets separating them all.

Do you think that the search engines would now view such a page as unique content?

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I doubt any search engine has the ability to correctly detect ?duplicate content? by bots, especially when it?s like that, because of the variation and placements of word character it would be near impossible. I think they have one of the two, but not the ability to detect duplicated content and its placement, I don?t think it?s possible yet, at-least not accurately, in this scenario, especially if you have a unique template/website design. I believe other things come into play, such as page rank, back links, etc.

sphinx said:

I doubt any search engine has the ability to correctly detect ?duplicate content? by bots, especially when it?s like that, because of the variation and placements of word character it would be near impossible. I think they have one of the two, but not the ability to detect duplicated content and its placement, I don?t think it?s possible yet, at-least not accurately, in this scenario, especially if you have a unique template/website design. I believe other things come into play, such as page rank, back links, etc.

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Thanks for your response. I also think this approach might get by the duplicate content issue. I have already written a PHP script that randomizes keyword related news snippets - I'll just have to make it insert those snippets in between paragraphs to see if the idea really works. One more thing on my ever growing list of things to do!

By the way, just for clarification, when I speak of news 'snippets' I mean a keyword related news artivel that has a title followed by a short summary of about 100 words, so the snippets do add some appreciable amount of content.

Hello,

As someone who's done quite a bit of white hat SEO, Duplicate Content is largely an issue across a single domain; for example WP Blogs with multiple URLs to access the same content.

The easy fix on a single domain is URL canonicalization; IE using things like .htaccess, robots.txt and internal linking structure to define the correct URL for the search engines to use to access certain content.

As for cross domain Duplicate Content issues, the above footprint comment was definitely a good way to compare your site and hopefully head off duplicate content issues.

As noted HTML Markup, images, and text content can all go towards helping to reduce the amount of duplication in your content. Barring that, just try to be the most "relevant" resource for that content item.

As for knowing whether or not you're facing duplicate content penalties, look up info on Google's "Supplemental" results.