Questions about duplicated articles & inbound links

[jimmychuang]

Hi,

3.If I have 5 aricle, and now I have 200 sites I can submit to. What is the best way to submit in order to index more articles and get more inbound links?

4.The more sites I submit article, does it mean the more chances I an get inbound links?

[edited by: martinibuster at 12:55 am (utc) on Jan. 25, 2008]
[edit reason] Google questions go in the Google Forum. Thanks. ;) [/edit]

[Quadrille]

1. Google has two levels of checking; identical pages and 'very similar' (I can't recall the term they us). It isn't instant; for example, Google will happily tell you there are 125 news articles, but still list them; after a few cycles of spidering, however, they start to drop out - with no way to know or predict which will survive. The process can take a while, especially when the pages are 'similar' rather than identical.

2. If they're identical, it'll drop all bar one. Not so clean cut if they are 'similar' - but think about it; the links that article are dividedamong 100 editions, instead of all to one URL. Do the math. Plus many article farms have been penalised anyway, for all sorts of reasons.

3. Place ONE copy on YOUR site - no other way compares in SEO value - except to the article farm who gain by having free content!

4. You may get links, but the value of each link will be as close to zero as you can get - the TOTAL value of all those links is unlikely to be much - a lot less, for example, than one link from the ODP if you kept the articles and built a site worth submitting.

Article farms are yesterday's news; as with most farms, it's the farmer who makes the profit - not the turkeys.