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Old 04-24-2008, 09:11 AM
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Default Articles are not duplicate content

I’ve seen a lot of people post on forums about duplicate content and I disagree with the information being posted.

I’ve got a blog about lawn mowers and since I know nothing about lawnmowers I went to some free article sites and got free information and stuck on my blog. Those articles rank on the major search engines and bring in traffic. I created another site about silicone wristbands and again used free articles for the information. Those articles are starting to rank and bring traffic into that site.

Duplicating an entire site when you are also duplicating the code would be a problem. However if you are posting an article onto an existing site then your code and links are different and the site is not duplicated. Not only will that post rank but if you put enough links to it will out rank the original article. I’ve seen it happen and I’ve also seen one article rank right behind another.

This means that when you write an article there is no reason to write one for your site and another to submit to the search engines. You only need to make sure your site has more incoming links going to the article.
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So would you consider what your doing "scrapping"?
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So would you consider what your doing "scrapping"?
Nope not at all. Every article has the arthurs bio and information on it.
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I've done this myself before, and it has worked for a while, but every major search engine has a "report spam" feature. If even one person uses that link against one of your sites, you are very likely to get blacklisted. That happened to me and I'm still fighting to get one site off the blacklist after several months, even though I've completely taken off the free content and rewritten everything.
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I dont think its scraping either, but I am suprised your ranking for it - are you ranking in Google or a different search engine?

I do see press releases come up in several listings, but seem to get duplicate content penalties for articles.
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Hi -

I think the problem comes when several sites use the exact same article(s) word for word. Google does pick this up and penalize you.

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Scraping is a common practice among many webmasters. And when you have millions of dollars backing your efforts, it's called Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

If you're against the practice of Google scraping the content off your website, but you have AdSense on your websites, it's called website monetizing.

For those of you reading this thread, placing duplicate articles on your website is a short term traffic strategy. To make this a long term sustainable, simply send quality text links to that article and you're almost guaranteed a high ranking in the Majors.
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There's a bigger problem -- it can be summed up in one quote:

"I’ve got a blog about lawn mowers and since I know nothing about lawnmowers --"
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There has to be a purpose in the article, even if it needs a quote from another source, i.e. duplicating a sentence or two, in my opinion. So now we have plagiarism to deal with after we're still coping with spamming? Showing the source and not claiming it as my own should be OK. I'd be honored if someone used my article with my name attached, especially if sales resulted.
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There ya go, maniactive!
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It's not plagiarism or anything like it if the author has published it and set conditions for it's re-use and the end-publisher(s) are complying with these terms.

In fact, it's helping these writers.

However using their work and not complying with their terms is a lot like dining and not tipping.

Just my 2 cents . . .
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Default Re: Articles are not duplicate content

I looked at your blog atached to your silicone wristband site. Is that one that you're referring to? I'm not trying to be offensive, only curious because I couldn't find a post that had links to the author anywhere.

Wouldn't that be called copyright infringement? I'd like to know as it would make writing 4 - 6 quality articles per week an easy task.
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I'm going to agree with Maniactive as well, but hey...
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I dont think its scraping either, but I am suprised your ranking for it - are you ranking in Google or a different search engine?

I do see press releases come up in several listings, but seem to get duplicate content penalties for articles.
Find an article that is on a couple sites and search for the title with quotes.
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Old 04-24-2008, 04:29 PM
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I've done this myself before, and it has worked for a while, but every major search engine has a "report spam" feature. If even one person uses that link against one of your sites, you are very likely to get blacklisted. That happened to me and I'm still fighting to get one site off the blacklist after several months, even though I've completely taken off the free content and rewritten everything.
I've heard about people reporting a lot of sites and Google never doing anything.

But I really don't see anything wrong with it. If your looking for information on lawn mowers I've gathered all the information together for you.

It is a good thing not a bad thing.
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I think the problem comes when several sites use the exact same article(s) word for word. Google does pick this up and penalize you.

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Do a search for some titles with quotes and look at all the sites with the same articles.
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There's a bigger problem -- it can be summed up in one quote:

"I’ve got a blog about lawn mowers and since I know nothing about lawnmowers --"
And why is that a bigger problem for you?

I've seen a lot of people selling SEO services that know nothing about SEO. I am not selling anything, we don't have lawn mowers around here and when I decided to buy one for my house I decided to start a blog.

Can you show me the rule book for who can start a blog and for what topics?
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There has to be a purpose in the article, even if it needs a quote from another source, i.e. duplicating a sentence or two, in my opinion. So now we have plagiarism to deal with after we're still coping with spamming? Showing the source and not claiming it as my own should be OK. I'd be honored if someone used my article with my name attached, especially if sales resulted.
All the articles have links back to the writer.
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