Hedir Review : Article submission or content duplicacy !

sylviadecoster · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 125 4036 Hedir Points

Since last few days, I am studying different articles on linking strategy. In many articles, I have found authors are giving high importance on article submission for gaining number of quality one way inbound links (IBL). Very good strategy. However, is it useful to the readers? Because people who are in online business must be having tendency to increase the number of back links to gain the so-called link popularity. Due to big G, this is an unavoidable reality. Therefore, people are having a tendency to collect back links by article submission. Article sites, article directory, Article submission category in forums are the most valuable place to post articles. But! And there is always a never-ending but:

One article placed in huge number of article sites and article directories -- will it be considered as duplicate content by big G?

Article placed in a site where relevancy factor is very less. Will it really help the readers?

Which is more important gaining back links or providing good and relevant information to the readers?

acorus · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

sylviadecoster · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 125 4036 Hedir Points

ADAC · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:37 am Post subject:

Señor COOL · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:53 am Post subject:

As someone who writes articles, I can tell you pretty well conclusively that Google does not penalize as much as people seem to think when it comes to article writing and submission.

I've written 9 of them and found them literally all over the place...at one point, my article was the entire opening page of a scraper site. Big G never punished me for that (I had nothing to do with it), but it was something of an eye opener to say the least.

Anyway, they can be a great way to generate traffic both in the short and long-term if you can write something of quality. If it's unique, that's a bonus.

The up (and downside) is that you'll find clicks from SERPs for terms you wouldn't even have thought of before. For example, I'm pretty well all over the place in Google for a lot of terms related to "ikobo" (e.g. iKobo review, iKobo scam) based on a review/article I wrote on the company.

Google is pretty good at determining the original source of an article and whose should be ranked first (I'm guessing based on the age factor), so you don't need to worry much from that regard.

sylviadecoster · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 125 4036 Hedir Points

Today during back link checking, I have found 10 sites where one of our article has been placed. All these sites are having different layouts different IPs and different content except that page where our article has placed but these sites are having same page title descriptions within the title tag which is the title article itself. More than 10 sites are having same title tag description. In what way big G or other major search engine will consider this factor. Will this be a threat for us? Alternatively, threat for those sites?

ADAC · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

Most likely only one of those pages will show in the serps, no big deal to you unless you also have the page in your site, then even if yours was the original it may not show. The link to your site will still count both with Google and with the over search engines.

Remember that SERPs is not the only reason to have content on your site, if the page is useful to your visitors, than it is providing benefit to your site even if it doesn't show in the SERPs.

chatterfox · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:37 am Post subject:

There is nothing wrong with article submission as long as it is original and the author has provided proper citations to sources used. The thing you have to always remember before submitting your article is to properly place the article on sites that cater to such topics discussed in the article. Also, a submitted article is useless once it is poor in content. So relatively, provide a good article for your readers. Always think of your readers first before anything else. I think that producing a good article that is also beneficial to many will automatically boost up your site and at the same time a bonus credibility for your company.

Señor COOL · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:08 am Post subject:

Sylvia: basically, it will put all the sites on an even keel in terms of promotion. It's almost a random thing as far as who gets the highest rank for an article.

However, this is a short-term effect. In the long run, the person who wrote and published the article on his/her own site tends to get a higher rank for the article and content within because 1) the person promotes it more aggressively and 2) it doesn't get buried as deeply in a site's architecture.

Like chatterfox said though, if you're doing it for SERP benefit, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Worry about your users first, and the SERPs will come.

SChat · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 33 2114 Hedir Points

Hi Sylvia,

Thanks for asking the question on article submission and content duplicity long back for me. I have gone through the all posts and got the relevant answers. However I do have questions on this issue. Like:

Can I submit the same article, which I have already published in my own site's article repository, to different article directory to gain back links?

And can I write article for my blog simply to promote my site products. For example: To sell soft toys, I have written an article that "how you can make your friends happy" giving link back to product pages of my main site. Will this be considered as spammy? Or will it be harmful for my main site?