How to avoid duplicate content with syndicate article submission sites such as Ezinearticles and Digg
Recently I have been submitting pages from my website as syndicate articles, to article submission websites such as Ezinearticles and Digg. I thought that this would be a great way of marketing and promoting my content and a great way of building backlinks for my website and improving pagerank. I thought that as long there is a link back to my website in these articles then Google would be fine with this type of duplicate content. I was wrong.
This was the worst idea and I will never do it again. When Google finds multiple pages of the same content it will put all pages into dispute, which means Google may temporarily remove all of the duplicate content (including your original) from the search engine results pages until they decide who the original site/author is, or which site Google feels would be the best to display this content. If Google finds multiple pages/sites of the same content it will only index one of those pages/sites. After a day of high traffic you may find that all content disappears for a few hours, a few days or a few weeks whilst Google has a dance and makes a decision. So this can threaten the entire existence of your pages in the Google index.
Some say that if your syndicated articles have a link back to your own site- then you will be fine and it will help maintain and improve your page rank. But then any website that shows your article may loose their site/pages in the index. Also the article submission websites may not like this and end up deleting your articles, and all your content may be seen as spam by search engines.
Google is quite good at determining who the original site/author is, however at the end of the day having syndicated articles duplicated from your website content is not benefiting anybody at all. When lots of different publishers start using your duplicate content articles then this will severely threaten your pages existence in the Google index and undermine the exclusiveness and integrity of your content and website.
So far today I have been deleting all duplicate content from all article submission sites and emailing these sites asking them to remove the duplicate content. The lesson here is that although we like to look for the most efficient path in life, there are never any short cuts. If you want something in life you have to pay the bill in terms of hard work and energy.
The scary thing is that because some of my content is interesting and well written a lot of companies would like to publish this on their website. I am now in the process of telling webmasters that it would be detrimental for them as well as my own site to post this content on their website.
It is more safer and easier just to write unique articles for these sites, which don’t duplicate any website content. With a link back to your website, web publisher’s can then do what they like with your articles and this will help your page rank. If you follow this method it will save you a lot of anxiety. The best syndication is RSS news feeds, which I will be spending a lot of time on over the next few months or so.
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