how much of my article should I change to avoid this "dupe content" penalty? a word or two every sentence? redo entire sentences? redo entire paragraphs?
I have 20 articles to promote on 5 article directories each. I want to save as much time as possible rewriting and submitting these. So I figure I'll just change a few words around here and there... Is that ok? If you can change whole words it will be good. But if you can not so change every second word in the article. ...I don't see the need to rewrite them if they're written by you in the first place? I mean...is there something inherently wrong with publishing your own work on more than one site?
Sorry if I sound naive. I thought this sort of penalty only meant for plagiarised stuff. It’s best to avoid duplicate content not necessarily because the penalty is as scary as many search engine myths about duplicate content say, but because it works against your search engine and online business success by keeping your pages from getting good rankings, or even showing up in search results.
Google, for example, continuously screens for duplicate content and uses a number of indicators to ultimately choose the authoritative page to index while ignoring all the other duplicate pages.
Even if the duplicate pages are all on your own site, you still end up diluting your ability to rank for that particular page by forcing those pages to compete against one another in the search engines.
Ultimately you should take the time to shut down any potential source of duplicate content by ensuring the search engines only index your authoritative page.
For pages on your own site, make sure duplicate pages are blocked from crawlers through the use of the “nofollow” link attribute and appropriate use of the “meta robots” page tag. Another more recent approach is to
I have 20 articles to promote on 5 article directories each. I want to save as much time as possible rewriting and submitting these. So I figure I'll just change a few words around here and there... Is that ok? If you can change whole words it will be good. But if you can not so change every second word in the article. ...I don't see the need to rewrite them if they're written by you in the first place? I mean...is there something inherently wrong with publishing your own work on more than one site?
Sorry if I sound naive. I thought this sort of penalty only meant for plagiarised stuff. It’s best to avoid duplicate content not necessarily because the penalty is as scary as many search engine myths about duplicate content say, but because it works against your search engine and online business success by keeping your pages from getting good rankings, or even showing up in search results.
Google, for example, continuously screens for duplicate content and uses a number of indicators to ultimately choose the authoritative page to index while ignoring all the other duplicate pages.
Even if the duplicate pages are all on your own site, you still end up diluting your ability to rank for that particular page by forcing those pages to compete against one another in the search engines.
Ultimately you should take the time to shut down any potential source of duplicate content by ensuring the search engines only index your authoritative page.
For pages on your own site, make sure duplicate pages are blocked from crawlers through the use of the “nofollow” link attribute and appropriate use of the “meta robots” page tag. Another more recent approach is to