Duplicating Articles/Blogs

[sayeed]

Two years ago, some articles and blogs were written and submitted to certain tech and news sites relevant to our field. Will it be fine to submit those to other sites now. It is our content only and not some one else, but would it be penalty to submit the copy to other article sites whereever those articles/content are relevant today also?

[sayeed]

Thanks for the valuable feedback, Craig & Mathew. We shall update the content to be relevant today and start submitting.

[CraigAddyman]

Agreed

[MatthewEgan]

+1 from me on this.  A simple update of the content would further show that you're posting this content because it is still relevant and you want to expose it to a new audience.  Google would have a hard time calling foul for you updating existing content to add value to the web.

A good rule of thumb "Am I creating spam?"  if yes, then stop it, if no?  Go for it.

[CraigAddyman]

It's not very clear what your saying but if you mean to submit it to completely different sites then I don't see there being a problem however you might want to consider doing a little refresh of the content as the more relevant and up to date it is the more chance it has of going viral etc Best of luck

[MatthewEgan]

The content would have value, but as the content is duplicated and viewed as duplicated or repeating, the value declines.  If there is a new resource, where posting that content would have value, I'd absolutely post it there as you're exposing a new audience to the content.  This is not done with poor intent or to game the system.

You're going to wind up with a net gain, as duplicate content is only flagged to be worth less (if flagged at all), not nothing.