Some SEO Insight Needed
I was browsing my stats today when I ran across the term “camp warneke new braunfels texas” The term had been used to access to my site 5 times, so being curious I went to Google and pasted the term in the search box and brought it up. My site advenquest.com was no where to be found in the 107 possible results. No big deal, on to Yahoo where I found my site listed # 1. Interesting, but again no big deal - It’s not like I’m getting rich on that term. But, still curious, I went back to Google. And what I had originally seen on Goole caught my eye - the #1 listing for the term “camp warneke new braunfels texas” on Google is the story I wrote for my site then put on Ezinarticles.com.
How it is my story about an old swimming hole in Texas gets top billing on Ezinarticles.com, but is nowhere to be found on Google for my own website.
Is this proof of duplicate content penalty?
A site which has absolutely nothing to do with the subject in the article has the only listing for my original content on this keyword in Google.
The link from Ezinarticles is worthless and the article is published in several other equally worthless venues.
Is there any value in publishing your original content to other sites? And does the time tested idea of publishing your articles for exposure hold up?
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