How many links per domain

concerning article sites

[youfoundjake]

If I submit 10 articles to one article site, and each one has a link back to my site, what would the search engines count?

1 (from the whole domain name)
or
10 (each article in the domain name)?

I'm particularly interested about Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Any thoughts are appreciated.

[Marcus Westberg]

I always try to get links from as many different domains as possible.
It is better to have 5 links from 5 different domains rather then 100 links from the same domain...

[graywolf]

Instead of submitting just one version of a bio on ten different articles why not submit a different version each time. Mix up the the bio and link to the home page and at least one deep page. Even better if it's a deep page related to the article you just submitted. Now of course that's not something you'll be able to do with one of those "automated article blasters" but you'll probably get more mileage out of a by hand approach in the long run anyway.

[youfoundjake]

Right...
I have about 15 articles I can squeeze out of my site. If I post those to 100 different article sites (changing the BIO was a good idea, thanks) thats 1500 links to me. Plus whoever else decides to post the articles on their sites....
So Does Google, Yahoo, and MSN see 1500 links, (one per article) or 100, (1 per article site)?

[Robert Charlton]

So Does Google, Yahoo, and MSN see 1500 links, (one per article) or 100, (1 per article site)?

This is a flip answer, so forgive in advance, but my gut says that MSN might see 1500 links... Yahoo might see 100 links... and Google might just see 1.

[youfoundjake]

Thank you Robert.. I'll take a flip answer over no answer any day :)
Now I know that Google is the big man on campus, and if in fact they only do see one link after negating all the dup content stuff, the best I can hope for is to have some visitors from the lesser two. But its still kind of frustrating...

[Robert Charlton]

Jake - My answer was whimsical conjecture based on how I think the various engines might treat links from dupe pages. I actually should have said Google might see 15... one link per unique article.

If you're duping an article that's already on your site, you might not receive any credit for the link. In general, I'd suggest not syndicating any content that's on your site, period. You might find your own pages going supplemental.

Link benefit you receive will also hinge on the kinds of sites that use these articles and the kinds of inbounds the articles get on these various sites. Chances are that sites which use articles from article sites are not likely to be very high quality.

I'd also suggest that if you have a lead on a high quality inbound link source, it's possibly worth creating a unique article for that site. Links from dupe pages are very possibly going to be downgraded.

[youfoundjake]

Robert, since you were participating in this thread, I'm taking any answers I get and I know your helping.
I was hoping for actually 15 from google, since they have the duplicate content penalty.
Mainly the articles I post to those sites are summarys of whats available on my site, I definately go into more detail, so the articles are nowhere near word for word copies.
I think that unfortunatelty because of the niche I'm in having a keyword of 80 million results, and I'm a fairly new site, that I will have to have 15 different versions of each article and have 15 articles to make any kind of position gain, or at least get some good IBL's from the major news sites as a link for resources.
I will keep plugging away at it.