Comments on: Articles Are Seeds of Knowledge – A Biblical Look at Duplicate Content

By: Benjamin Robert Ehinger

Benjamin Robert Ehinger — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:42:12 +0000

In my personal experience and opinion Duplicate Content is like the boogy man. It does not really exist except in our minds. Most think that duplicate content is what you get when you submit the exact same article to more than one place on the internet, but that is not correct. The penalty from Google comes when you link the exact same content to the exact same content.

By: Benjamin Robert Ehinger

Benjamin Robert Ehinger — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:42:12 +0000

By: Grover

Grover — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:44:14 +0000

Maybe it is just me, but the smaller article directories just don’t seem to work as well as the top 5 article directories. But I admit that the top five (including EzineArticles) greatly increase traffic to my site!

By: Ashish K Arora

Ashish K Arora — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:23:42 +0000

@Andy,
there are lots of tools available (most famous is brad callen’s tool); they submit your article to hundreds of directories, means it is spreading duplicate content on web and it will increase extra headache for google too (as i read somewhere that google is removing duplicate content pages from its database) but if such types of tools are there on web how can duplicate content be removed as they submit in bulk.

By: Danny Tuppeny

Danny Tuppeny — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:22:46 +0000

“Thus there are probably as many bibles in the world as people”

That sounds a bit difficult to believe! :/

By: The Article Marketing and Duplicate Content Argument

The Article Marketing and Duplicate Content Argument — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:07:42 +0000

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:46:58 +0000

Well it takes you more time to submit to 5 than to submit to Article Marketer, unless they for some reason reject an article (which I know can be a problem, I have had some weird rejections, as I think most people who have used them for a long time have)

It is almost impossible to test, because every article performs differently.

Article Marketer submits to those 5 top directories so you would still get that traffic.

Traffic form the other 400 varies, and sometimes it moght only be the directory owner.
In addition you have to calculate the time spent in managing the emails you tend to receive – I am setup to have everything that I have to receive as only digest or if possible not to receive emails from all the mailing lists.

Then there are the Article Directory owners who think that submitting an article to them mean that is a reason to bombard you with emails about products, without a method to unsubscribe.
Some I have emailed and they replied that fair enough, if I don’t want their email they will remove me from their system, including all articles.
If I feel I am being abused, I end up directing all their email to spam or autodelete.

I don’t see much traffic from such articles, and the links are low quality, but they do get picked up and syndicated.

I will do another test run shortly with a series of 10 articles to a specific squeeze page and publish some results.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:23:19 +0000

Andy, I see you posted this a while back. Do you still have the same thoughts on article marketing?

This is something I’ve actually done a great deal of testing with. I love article marketing and I’ve found a great deal of success in it so naturally, I’ve tested different versions of articles in different niches submitting to article marketer (400+ article directories) and submitting to 5 of the better article directories.

I’ve tested the articles that I used to test my tested articles :) I’ve written tested with different titles, signature blocks, writing styles, formats etc etc etc

The result, submitting to the top 5 or so article directories brings in more visitors.

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Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:31:04 +0000

[...] Now unfortunately AFP doesn't include a link through to the original source of the material it used. Links provide attribution on the internet and are used by visitors to read the rest of the story (only the top10 was published, not all 100 items), and by search engines in their calculation of the original source. [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:49:05 +0000

Total Proof of Concept Alex – thanks for dropping by and commenting, I hope you subscribed