Publish site page as article

Is this permissible from SEO point of view

[getxb]

Strange but true!

I recently came accross a website (pretty reputed) who have been publishing few of their site pages as an article to various 'article publishing sites' (for increasing their backlinks I guess). I checked out their backlinks in google for some specific pages and found that big G have considered including a few of them as backlinks! Isnt this strange? Isnt this duplicate content?

Please share your views.

Regards,
getxb

[jimbeetle]

You might be mixing your apples and oranges here. Sure, Google might see some of these pages as dupe content (and in some instances it might not). But either way, if the pages have backlinks, why wouldn't Google show them?

Most (many/a lot of) pages with dupe content are still considered legitimate pages and as far as I know are treated as such except in the SERPs. They are still indexed, they still pass and receive PR, etc. They just might not show in the SERPs for certain queries.

Many times what some call duplicate content "penalties" are actually a result of the duplicate content filter. This is basically applied on the fly as Google serves the SERPs and is done on a results page by results page basis. Pages with substantially the same content should not appear on the same results page. Go to the next SERP and a similar page might appear, but only one. Go to the next and another similar page might appear.

You can better see the effects of this by varying the number of results returned per page. Set your Google prefs to return 10 results per page. Then do a search that you know should return a large number of duplicate pages (quoted text from an article site is a good choice). Note the results on, say, the first two to four pages. Now set your prefs to return 20 results per page and rerun the search. You might see that a result that turned up on page 2 in the first search does not show in the expected position on page 1 in the second search. It's now been filtered out because it would appear on the same SERP as another, better qualified result.

For even more fun, set your prefs to return 50 results.

There are a few ways to confuse the filter and many people use them, so the actual results might look as if some pages are not being filtered. You'll probably have to run a few tests to get a feel for how it's supposed to work.

[getxb]

So pages that are old enough (as I saw in the wayback) can still be submitted in various article sites to gain bls? Is it a smart decission? Please note that am not talking of articles but original contents of a reputed site page ex: http://example.com/example.html

Regards,
getxb

[adamnichols45]

How do you search G and see a websites backlinks?

[getxb]

I use link:http://www.example.com/ to search for bls though this is not the same with yahoo.

regards,
getxb

[adamnichols45]

Thanks -

But when I do this for one of my domains nothing shows up.

Even for sites that i know have backlinks and have been around for over 6 months.

I do a search on for example ("example.com") and i see the backlinks...

mmmm...

[getxb]

I do a search on for example ("example.com") and i see the backlinks...

Welcome. But I cant really agree with this. Say http://www.example.com/ shows plenty of bls in yahoo. But it shows nothing in google (I have seen this happening too). So now if I search for "example.com" in google will it show all the bls? I think the sites that contains the text example.com will also be included in the results. But are they bls to example.com? I dont think so.

regards,
getxb