Would syndicated articles with back links to your website be disregarded as duplicate content? Maybe the first link would be counted.
Also, would it not be better to just have one original article posted in one place? Would that be better for the strength of the back link?
I guess the bigger question is it bad SEO to be submitting the same article to multiple directories?
Thanx,
Didn't want to hijack this thread. http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/218424-article-marketing-backlinks.html You can certainly submit the same article to multiple directories. However, not all of them will rank in the search engine results.
Say, for example, you submit the same article to 10 different directories. Google will decide which one has the most "authority" (not necessarily the first article to get indexed. It's up to Google who they go with) and will rank it accordingly. The other 9 will go into the supplemental index (which is what comes up if you click on "click here to see the search results that were omitted") Even though those other 9 articles are in the supplemental index, you're still getting backlinks from them.
Duplicate content only refers to content that's duplicate on your own site. If, for example, you have a web-version of a page and a print-version of the same page, it would be duplicate content.
With article marketing, the goal is to get your articles picked up by as many different places as possible (it's called "syndication" not "duplicate content". Every time your article gets picked up, you get another backlink. With some article submission tactics, I would question their value, especially when compared with setting up a
Also, would it not be better to just have one original article posted in one place? Would that be better for the strength of the back link?
I guess the bigger question is it bad SEO to be submitting the same article to multiple directories?
Thanx,
Didn't want to hijack this thread. http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/218424-article-marketing-backlinks.html You can certainly submit the same article to multiple directories. However, not all of them will rank in the search engine results.
Say, for example, you submit the same article to 10 different directories. Google will decide which one has the most "authority" (not necessarily the first article to get indexed. It's up to Google who they go with) and will rank it accordingly. The other 9 will go into the supplemental index (which is what comes up if you click on "click here to see the search results that were omitted") Even though those other 9 articles are in the supplemental index, you're still getting backlinks from them.
Duplicate content only refers to content that's duplicate on your own site. If, for example, you have a web-version of a page and a print-version of the same page, it would be duplicate content.
With article marketing, the goal is to get your articles picked up by as many different places as possible (it's called "syndication" not "duplicate content". Every time your article gets picked up, you get another backlink. With some article submission tactics, I would question their value, especially when compared with setting up a