Q&A: Is it bad in terms of SEO to use the same article you submit to Ezinearticles as a post on your blog?
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Question by Flyfisher: Is it bad in terms of SEO to use the same article you submit to Ezinearticles as a post on your blog?
I’ve read some stuff about duplicate content and I’m trying to figure out if it’s bad to use an article I wrote on Ezinearticles as a post for my blog without changing it. If I post the same article in both places will it affect either the ranking of the ezinearticle, the blog, or both in Google? E.g. Google won’t list one or both of them because it’s the same content found elsewhere. Anyone know? Thanks.
Best answer:
Answer by Richie
Hi,
Google say ‘no’, there’s lots of evidence to say the contrary and having investigated SEO for some time now, I am convinced that the rules change on a regular basis.
Just to be safe, I would alter the blog content slightly, retaining any keywords that are important to you of course.
It’s probably best practice in any case?
ATB Rich
http://www.netbiz.uk.com
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The conventional wisdom, as taught by the gurus is: the first copy of the article would receive most of the rank credit for the originator of the material, at least be sure the ezinearticles copy has been discovered by the search engines before placing the copy on your blog. If it does well your article and author will be duplicated by many, but as previously advised, changing the copy an your blog a bit may improve the originality ranking. A minimum they suggest changing the anchor text in the author link, some go further and apply article spinner utilities to create a unique reworded version for each article site.
I do like the answer above me. The point of submitting an ezine article is to get your content syndicated, and links posted on many websites. I’d repost it on your blog if you want to. Change the anchor text on the linkback to your business site, and don’t worry about the fact that Google will discount that particular blog post in search results. Ezine articles almost certainly has higher pagerank than your blog, so your information will be more action on ezine than your blog.
There are a lot of people out there who believe in Google voodoo like sites getting blacklisted, or punished across many keywords for simple duplicate content problems, or slightly spammy link structures. Most of these people operate only a couple of websites in the same vertical. As someone who has a wide view across a few hundred websites and literally dozens of industries, i don’t lose much sleep over duplicate content penalties. I say spin that content, and get it posted everywhere.
I don’t think it is bad. As long as it is your own article and own blog. You can post your article and then give credit on the blog by putting your links. You will not only gain popularity with your article but also popularity on your blog.
Sometimes Google really don’t like the duplicate content, In this case, you could have your article rewrite, change your format, fonts, colors or reorder the sentences, but basically it will have the same meaning of what you want to say. So you wont have the exactly duplicate content.