Duplicate content when uploading articles on other websites
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Hi,
We regularly write articles on our website and then submit them to different websites with link backs or sometimes without link backs.
If google crawls these websites and our website, will it penalise us for duplicate content? Does it make a difference if we put link back to our site or not? If Google sees it as duplicate content, what should we do as a solution?
Thanks
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i believe it is not just where the content was seen first, thinks like up time, loading time and other thinks can decide what page will be seen as the original. Rand did and article on it somewhere.
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I may catch some flack for this.. but this is EXACTLY what software like thebestspinner is for.
Keep the original on your site, then plop it in the best spinner and spend 30-45 minutes doin up the spintax on it. submit the variations to the article directories.
This has 2 benefits:
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you aren't putting exact duplicates of your content out onto other peoples domain
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your article subs vary from directory to directory, increasing the likelyhood that more of them will stay in the main index and perhaps pass you some visibility and traffic in addition to link equity.
Another thing I would recommend and this is just a personal preference.... don't link your distributed article back to its twin on your site. instead link it to a different article on your site that may be related... or to a category page of related articles.
This is mainly a UX thing. Why would someone want to read the same article twice? If they just got done reading it they arent going to follow a link just to read it a second time
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Oh i see, i guess that's the easiest way to do it then. Thanks for that
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Like Alan said, rel canonical is great if the site accept that tag.
In addition, You can set up your site to or manually ping the search engines when you release a new article so it then hopefully attributes your site as the first one to have that content.
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Best answer is write original content,
if not use rel=canonical tag to point back to original
the serch engine will see only one page as original, the others wont be penalized they just wont get any credit for the content
i put rel canonical in all pages so if some oone copies my site the will more than lickly copy the rel=coanonical tag also
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