Duplicate content will not get you banned!

Well, it was an exception in your "concept", wasn't it ? U see, every search hates duplicate content. Its a very obvious truth. Since, some people escape their clutches, we cannot generalise the fact.

Well, I know of a lot of people who "auto blog" and steal articles and posts from other's RSS feeds. Most of them I know had been penalised or banned from Google.

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I've never used duplicate content. I'm someone who believes that Unique and quality content is the best SEO technique you can ever find.

even if yours is the original, what if someone scraped or just copy and pasted you? and what if it is a BH and made hundreds of thousands of pages from your original content? how would the SE know that yours is the original?

this is also an update: up till now, my article site is still getting traffic from the SE, appearing in page 1, 2 or 3 of the serps. and i just have 22 topics there. well, time to add more.

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even if yours is the original, what if someone scraped or just copy and pasted you? and what if it is a BH and made hundreds of thousands of pages from your original content? how would the SE know that yours is the original?

In that case you should be the first that the search engines indexed. This way Google will know that yours is the original and they will penalize the site that copied your content.

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In that case you should be the first that the search engines indexed. This way Google will know that yours is the original and they will penalize the site that copied your content.

thats why you should wait first with the promotion of your article

thats why you should wait first with the promotion of your article

Or learn the art of good search engine optimisation...

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Or learn the art of good search engine optimisation...

yes right, but there are websites which are not indexed by Google every day

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Even if you are not capable to help a site get indexed - or in other words you don't have other sites - you can still post your site to a few directories and social bookmarks. This will be enough to help Google decide that you are the original source of your content.

I used almost only articles to promote one of my websites. I have submitted about 30 articles, each one to 300-400 article directories.
This worked very well last year, and I had in google almost 1000 backlinks shown and was on 1 place in the search results for many terms. It was a great feeling. But March this year, after the last google algorithms changes, all my backlinks from articles disapeared together with my PR (my PR went from 5 to 3) and my visitors disapeared in one night. Duplicate content doesn't work anymore. It will probably not damage your website, but will also not help. Now unique content is more important than always.
If you want to use articles as promotion, you MUST submit unique articles to each article directory if you wish this to improve your rankings. If you don't have unique articles - don't waste your time!

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will say if you have 30 unique articles, you can submit them to 30 directories right? not really a good investment...

but you are right, I submitted 10 articles to the same amount of directories and don't get any visitors from them, there is nothing happened since them...

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it wont get you banned alright, just plunge you into the depths of their supplemental abbys.

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even thou some of my pages are supplemental, it still get high rankings for specific long-tail keywords.

since Google only uses their supplemental results when they dont have enough pages to display for a query, then why would they classify that page as supplemental in the first place?

I've been wondering about this for months. Every time I turn around I'm running into some article submission software. Now I notice this type of software works by having you type your article three times. Each time changing something in paragraph 1, 2, 3 etc. Then when it submits it to the article dreictories, it takes paragraph 1 from version 1, paragraph 2 from version 3, and paragraph 3 from version 2 (etc).

There are black hat versions as well which let you set up multiple author accounts. But if you are doing this to build your name as a brand that makes no sense.

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Dave this method wont work for people who want stable business. It can work for 1 or 2 months, but nothing in the long term.

In my opinion the whole article submission thing belongs to the past, while linkbait is the present and probably the future in promotion.

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articles can still work with the search engines. i can attest to that with my article site. its still getting traffic from the serps. my traffic dropped a few weeks ago but its gradually coming back now.

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