Questions about duplicated articles & inbound links
February 10, 2008
Stumble it!If I have 5 aricle, and now I have 200 sites I can submit to. What is the best way to submit in order to index more articles and get more inbound links? The more sites I submit article, does it mean the more chances I an get inbound links?
1. Google has two levels of checking; identical pages and ‘very similar’ (I can’t recall the term they us). It isn’t instant; for example, Google will happily tell you there are 125 news articles, but still list them; after a few cycles of spidering, however, they start to drop out - with no way to know or predict which will survive. The process can take a while, especially when the pages are ’similar’ rather than identical.
2. If they’re identical, it’ll drop all bar one. Not so clean cut if they are ’similar’ - but think about it; the links that article are dividedamong 100 editions, instead of all to one URL. Do the math. Plus many article farms have been penalised anyway, for all sorts of reasons.
3. Place ONE copy on YOUR site - no other way compares in SEO value - except to the article farm who gain by having free content!
4. You may get links, but the value of each link will be as close to zero as you can get - the TOTAL value of all those links is unlikely to be much - a lot less, for example, than one link from the ODP if you kept the articles and built a site worth submitting.
Article farms are yesterday’s news; as with most farms, it’s the farmer who makes the profit - not the turkeys.
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February 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
GoogleLady, I’m a newbie trying to learn IM. Came across this blog and loved it. From this article, it seems that you are not a fan of article marketing. Can you elaborate on this? as other bloggers I follow are advising newbies like me to go article marketing to build backlinks. Thanks a lot! Have a great day!
February 10th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I am a fan on Article marketing and that is what is working Mel. But what I am not fan is building backlinks and submitting them into Articles submission sites. I really don’t want to waste my time working 2x to write in my blogs and then writting different versions of the articles and submitting into it. I am not saying that this will not work, never tried it but with my new case study:
http://www.googlelady.com/504/how-make-money-online/
that will be one of my link building strategies.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Thanks for the fast reply.
I surely will wait for the result of your case study to see how it goes as a link building strategy.
I guess what I’m still a little confused at (sorry Im a newbie) is how much importance Google places on those backlinks. Let’s say you have 1 (same) article submitted to 200 article directories. So, theoretically, you’ll have 200 backlinks. Since, your article is the same in each of the directories, will Google penalize your 200 backlinks and maybe, in its scoring, render it as the equivalent of just 1 backlink? Is that how google work? What do you think? Thanks for your help!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Submitting the same article in xxx of article directories is not good, because it will count as duplicate content with Google. You need to make 200 different articles. Most people that apply this strategy use some software to make the original article different something like jetspinner. I did not tried it but some people said that is good.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Thanks Googlelady