Maybe with my new blog I’ll try to keep it short:)

Yes, duplicate content is one of those hot topics and some people are scared to death by it and others don’t pay it much heed.

I can tell you that myself and the members of SubmitYOURArticle.com have continued to see excellent results from using Article Marketing as the main marketing tool for a website even with the hubbub about duplicate content.

From an search engine’s point of view, placing articles automatically all over the net is not much different whether done automatically or manually. Even when done automatically, the articles can take a while to appear as sites approve and publish the articles in question.

Neither should article submissions be seen as spam or some sort of underhand tactic – it’s not, article submissions simply involve sharing content legitimately with other sites on the web who wish to publish it. Press releases work in a similar way, and a whole load of other online content is syndicated too, not just article submissions.

While the search engines don’t see it as a problem if sites contain the same content, this doesn’t mean that they want to show their users the same article on a ton of different sites in the search results; they want to show a variety of different content that may be helpful to the user.

So they do recognize duplicate content, but that doesn’t mean they penalize sites because of it, syndicated content plays a big part on the web and how the web works (eg. RSS provides an easy method to spread syndicated content).

Article submissions increase your chances of one of your articles showing up on one of the sites on which it is published when a user searches on a particular topic. The more articles you have out there, and the more sites your articles are published on, the more chances you have that a search engine user will click to read your article when searching for something.

So, I haven’t noticed that the duplicate content issue plays that big a role in a website’s results, but knowing that some people are very concerned, we do offer a free tool to the members of SubmitYOURArticle.com called ArticleLeverage, which allows the author to create unlimited variations of their article, which decreases the amount of duplicate content.

I hope that helps!

Can you give us your thoughts on this?
Paul

Great article. I have been sort of doing this for a while but I shall redouble my efforts. I also use some of my articles as a basis for Suidoo lenses.