Duplicate penalty if other site reprints my article?

If another site reprints my article with permission, might Google omit me?

[Benala]

I have recently published several new original articles on my site. I own the copyrights. There are some related sites that sometimes reprint such articles. I want to give them permission to reprint my articles with a link to my site. How do I make sure Google does not think I am the one with the duplicate content?

I have read many good threads in WW about duplicate content, but they mostly deal with copyright infringement. That is not the problem here. I WANT to share information and insight that I hope other sites will deem useful to their visitors, but not if it costs my article pages a place in the index.

Some posts have suggested Google will give credit for the original to the site with the higher PR. But my site is new and has no PR yet (which is one reason I want sites with higher PR to reprint my article with the link), so that would kill me.

Other posts have suggested Google may check caches to establish who was the original. But I have not seen Google Guy confirm that, so I am afraid of relying on it.

At the end of each article I have written "Originally published at mysite.com", but will Google credit that?

Any advice?

[edited by: Marcia at 12:54 am (utc) on June 24, 2003]
[edit reason] No direct GG requests, please. [/edit]

[fathom]

In all likelihood there is no problem.

Should Google ever determine that re-published articles are duplicates (as noted my their later time stamp) it will not affect the scoring of the original - the links (if any) to you from the others will just have no added weight to your rank score.

In most cases though the interface of each is usually vastly different thus unique.

[Stefan]

Hi Benala

The duplicate content issue shouldn't arise as long as the main layout of the pages, headers, nav, etc is different. The text itself, if it's within a very different format than the other sites that have published the articles, shouldn't cause a dupe content problem.

The thing then is, if a search is done on "article widgets" which page will appear higher in the serps. This will not be entirely dependant on PR. If your page has a more focussed title, and a few more instances of the kw, then it might do better than the higher PR site. Could you try to have others that publish your articles have a generic title that would not have your important kw's in it, or try to in other ways make sure your version of the article is more attractive for the SE's? If it's your article, you should have some say in how it is presented on other's sites.

EDIT: typo

[Jenstar]

Here is another thread from just a few days ago. The person also offers content as reprints on other sites. There is some good information in there to keep in mind when you are offering free content to others for reprints.

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