Our content republished with links back to us. SEO value?

[wilkinsj]

Here's the situation. One of the sites I'm working on has a really great piece of content for which we are conducting outreach. Several of the webmasters we've contacted have asked to reproduce the article in full on their site. We've agreed to this as long as they include a link back to the original article.

I know from Google's guidelines that including this link will prevent any duplicate content penalty and it will let Google know to use our page as the primary source.

What I want to know is.. will those links back to our site have any SEO value? Or will Google discount them due to the duplicate content? It seems like Google is discounting them already in at least one way (by acknowledging that they are not the original source of the article), so will they also discount the value of the link?

Let me know what you think!

[netmeg]

I get a ton of these. I have always assumed there is some minute SEO value, but probably not enough to make a noticeable difference. Mostly I like them for the traffic they send me.

[wilkinsj]

Thanks for your reply Netmeg. Are you talking about article syndication sites etc? I would agree that these have minimal value.

What I'm talking about is sites that are otherwise very high quality and do not regularly syndicate articles. They are amazing links to get in every respect apart from the 'duplicate content' issue.

I'm wondering if a link from a reprinted article on a great site (that is otherwise full of original content) will be valued much less than a regular curated link from the same site.

[McMohan]

wilkinsj, it all depends on the sites that have reproduced your content. If those sites carry mostly original articles, those links would count. If those sites only contain reproduced articles, then those links won't count or count for less, IMO.

[krishseo]

Not all back links have value, only the sites which have authority back links will have value to your site. It's most common that all the good content will be reproduced by other with our link under content as (source). Google will treat in different ways, the sites which reproduce our content should have quality back links and authority in such case our back link from them will have value, remaining all links will be ignored (as they are not in our control)

[netmeg]

Um, no, I don't do article syndication, or in fact, articles.

My links mostly come from media sites, newspapers and television stations, and government and municipal websites. Some blogs.