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Mind you, I would never submit, as an article, any content that had been specifically written for just this site due to dupe issues.
But this is different. These pages are specifically for distribution to pick up a few externals. I'd simply like them to also appear on the site and it doesn't bother me if these articles don't get indexed by google on the target site itself.
Anyone see any "google" problems with this?
If your site is newish especially, then Google would probably give preference to the article site and penalise yours for having the "duplicate" article.
Just my experience.
It won't bother me if the pages on my site that host these articles are filtered out of the search results due to duplicate content. The purpose of these particular pages is to be submitted elsewhere for article submission to pick up links. And these articles will appear on article sites before they ever appear on mine, so, in other words, there is no traffic to lose and I'm not concerned about a duplicate content filter as it regards these specific pages.
However, since the articles are fairly good, I plan to put them on my site after I submit them to article sites. So----I'm just wondering if I'll trip some OTHER google issue by hosting duplicate content on my this site. Can anyone think of anything?
There are many sites that have syndicated articles that appear on many other sites and seem to rank just fine, so I don't think you get a penalty for the duplicate content, especially if these are just a small percent of your total articles. Usually with Google just one of the articles seem to rank in the results. But if you are concerned the duplicate content will hurt you with the search engines, then a noindex tag may be useful.
[edited by: Jane_Doe at 6:24 pm (utc) on Mar. 14, 2007]
However I'd think twice if your site is not an established authority site, which has Google's "trust".
But wouldn't a noindex tag prevent adsense from spidering the page as well? Perhaps rewriting a second version for article submission is the best way to go.
But wouldn't a noindex tag prevent adsense from spidering the page as well
I wouldn't see any logical reason for them to code it that way (noindex doesn't necessarily mean noadsense), but you can always put up one sample page and test it out.
There are ways, very cheaply to get wide distribution of your articles. Ezine is just one outlet, but a good one mind you. pm me, and I'll fill you in.
To be on the safe side, I would recommend rewriting the articles by around 1/3. Rewrite the first paragraph, the first sentence of each other paragraph and the last paragraph. Use a thesaurus to randomly change a few of the words in the remainder of the body. Shouldn't take long and will probably not trip dup filters.
Still don't see Pr on the ezinearticles homepage
Ezinearticles has a PR6. Do not use a 'www' in the url (It has been this way for a long time).
