EzineArticles.com - Using Duplicate Content Without Getting Penalized By Google

i find it hard to believe that the articles we see there were submitted to their site only. why do they have a high pagerank? is it because of the backlinks they get from the articles?

Ezine Articles has over 1,500,000 Yahoo backlinks alone! Thousands of people visit there every day.

Duplicate content is only duplicate when it is on the same website.

Barb

Where's your source for that? Duplicate content as I've always seen it explained is not restricted to one website.

duplicate content does not apply to the same site but for content copied and pasted from elsewhere

If what you are saying is true, if I submitted an article to 100 directories, that article would be classed as duplicate content?

Barb

if you didnt change it a bit for each article site, i guess so. thats why article submitter softwares allow for variations of the same article.

Article submission software allows you to make variations of an article, so that article is unique and will rank higher.

Webmasters would never go to article directories and publish other peoples articles on their websites if they were going to get penalised for duplicate content.

You can submit an article to lots of directories and then a week later submit it to Ezine Articles and it will be accepted. It will only be rejected if there is duplicate content on Ezine Articles.

Barb

barb, do you agree that the articles on ezinearticles.com are not unique to their site?

That's right. The articles on Ezine Articles are not unique to their site.
There will be duplicates everywhere.

Barb

Could you explain how you came to this conclusion?

All. Please take some advice from an ARTICLE WRITER, not a AFFILIATE MARKETER or SEO GUY.

Write DIFFERENT CONTENT ON ARTICLE SITES. Forget about software that change your content, it is meaningless. Most of these articles are hard to read and make you look like a bit of a moron.

The real answer is write more. The articles you submit to other sites SHOULD NEVER BE ON YOUR BLOG OR WEBSITE. This way, your site content is unique and you can still build readership and backlinks from the directories.

This is just one man's opinion, and I am an SEO idiot. That said,my site is #1 or on the first page for 5-6 two word searches and about 50 three word searches that matter.

while I agree about writing different unique versions of each article for each site, you are completely wrong about using software. The new generation of AI powered rewriters are as good or better than most human written content.

I meet this articles many times in different forums. I think it's a way to create a good tree in forum.

what do you mean by 'tree'? Do you mean 'thread'?

@GiorgosK

Duplicate content applies for the same site too...

Unfortunately i can't post links YET(this is why i can't quote you too ) but if you search you will see google has almost a page dedicated to this subject and warns the webmasters too...Wordpress based websites have a huge issue with duplicate content unless they take actions to minimize the problem...

there's no excuse nowadays for dupe content. Not when the tools exist to make it unique at the press of a button.

yes, backlinks are key to page rank

Quality backlinks are really helpful.

Well i am type of guy who submits one articles to different directories and most of the time it helps me in terms of backlinks.
But i agrere you should not submit your website article to directories.  There should be some difference in your website article and articles that you submit to article directories.

Also keep your pen name same all along these submissions.  It is very important.

Hi Barb,

Do you know about any such article submission software?

Hi guys. The important thing is figuring out what your goal is.

If your goal is backlinks then don't worry about duplicate content. When people talk about getting penalized for duplicate content, all this means is that google will only show the article once in its SERPs. So if it's on multiple sites, you get the juice from the backlinks, but your hurt your ability to drive traffic from the articles since only one is shown in SERPs.

If your goal is getting each article to appear in SERPs, then you must submit unique articles to each site. Do not use the article generation software to do this.

What we do is this: We write two versions of an article. One to post on our site. One to put out for syndication. Not a lot of extra time. And we want OUR site to get SERPs. And we want the backlink value from article sites.

Yeah to me in my opinion article software is useless.

Google never penalize duplicate content, dude!

First of all you have to define duplicate contents.

1) People duplicating your contents with a link source is ok

2) People duplicating your contents for promoting their own sites or their own products are spam.

3) People duplicating sentences taken from your site to be under the radar is spam

4) People duplicating sentences taken from your site and copied on their hundreds sites are spam

5) People duplicating a specific sentence to multi pages is spam.

6) People duplicating your copyrighted work without a backlink to the source is spam

7) People duplicating sentences from articles and using that as a meta description is spam