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    • bloomnation
      bloomnation last edited by

      How do Mat Releases affect SEO?

      Does google recognize that your are syndicating duplicate content even if the content is being syndicated across top media outlets?

      Do these back links still carry any authority or can we even be penalized for the duplicate content?

      I came across mat releases here:

      http://matrelease.com/

      An example of article syndication outlets:

      Guaranteed Placement on 800+ Media Sites. Generate guaranteed article placement on more than 800 respected online media outlets. Our digital distribution network includes: The LA Times; The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (JS Online); Las Vegas Review Journal; Hearst media sites for the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle and Connecticut Post and others; local TV news affiliate sites from ABC, CBS, FOX and others; and hundreds more trusted sites.

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      • Dr-Pete
        Dr-Pete Staff last edited by

        I think it depends a lot on quality, honestly - a "mat release" could just be glorified article marketing, if the sources are questionable. It's easy for someone to make big promises, but odds are you won't be on the LA Times, you'll be on the "hundreds more trusted sites", especially if the price-tag is too good to be true.

        I disagree re: first-indexed always winning. Authority can overwhelm that, in some cases, and a major news outlet could get credit for your content. Google is still not great at this. Now, if it's linked back, as you said, that definitely helps a lot.

        So, let's say you post something and it goes out to 800 sites. Typically, some of those sites will be flagged as duplicates and filtered out. Yours may not be, but if enough of them are, those links will lose value, too (a non-indexed page doesn't carry link equity). So, even if you get credit, the links could be of limited value.

        Now, if you actually could get on 800 top media sites, that may be different, but if it's really syndicated it's not going to get top billing. So, it's not just a matter of the sites, but where on the sites you appear. Are you on CNN's home-page or buried on some citizen reporter opinion mini-blog?

        I just tend to hear a lot of too-good-to-be-true in this, honestly.

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        • Bryan_Loconto
          Bryan_Loconto @bloomnation last edited by

          A mat release is still going to get indexed and counted for. The first page it gets indexed on gets all the credit. Anything after that is duplicate if it does not trackback to the first piece of content.

          Unless I am mistaken, I don't think the search engines are able to differentiate this type of content.

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          • bloomnation
            bloomnation @Bryan_Loconto last edited by

            My understanding of a Mat Release is that it is an article (about our company) that we write and distribute to editors to release when they need a story to fill in the gaps. The story would include a link to our site, so there is no "original version".  If this story is published by 100's of different media outlets, do we get the benefit of those 100s of back links? Or because they are all publishing the same story, do these back links not really count?

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              Bryan_Loconto last edited by

              As long as the syndicated articles are tracking back (linking back) to the original version it will not count a duplicate.

              The first page to get indexed will not suffer from syndication regardless of track backs. Only the site that syndicates needs to track back or it wil look like duplicate text.

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