Article Submission Best Practices

[irincon]

We are starting an article submission project for our company and had a very basic question. Will submitting the same article to different sites create any potential issues? If the article gets published on various sites, will this be considered duplicate content?

[dignan99]

Hey...

Unless these articles are going to extremely reputable sources, I would not bother with any article submissions.  I would concentrate on adding content to the website and/blog, and consider doing guest blogging on other sites you may be networked with.

Article submission for the sake of SEO is not the best idea following the drop in rank of many of the large article databases.

Also, every article submitted to these places should be unique if you were still choose to use them. Often times the sites will check for dupe material.  While I have read that there will be no punishment for the dupe content by the search engines, it may not help your cause.  It would just be a waste of time an resources.

If you were to publish an article that goes viral, or possibly a higher end press release, I could see how this might be more powerful and well worth it.