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I have been researching ways of building up my site's one way link popularity and have read a lot about Article Submissions. However I am a little confused - from my understanding Google penalizes duplicate content. Yet most of the article submission services and software enable you to submit your article to multiple article directories. Would that mean no matter how many sites your article went on to, Google would only credit you with one backlink, as it would disregard the other sites that had copies of that article?
Does anyome have any exp of this form of link building and is it worth the time and effort - do you get multiple back links from having the same article posted on multiple sites. And if it is worth it would any of you recommend using software like article announcer (to reduce multiple submission fees) or using a paid multiple distribution service like isnare - or would you just stick to posting an article on one site like ezinearticles?
Any suggestions and advice is much appreciated.
Thanks, Zammo
[edited by: caveman at 4:27 pm (utc) on Mar. 27, 2006]
[edit reason] No specifics please, per TOS. [/edit]
From my understanding Google penalizes duplicate content.
I'm not too certain that the term penalty is appropriate. I might refer to it as a downgrade and not an outright penalty.
In the case of articles, the first one to publish and garner inbound links is typically the one to watch. All others afterwards are mostly likely going to be filtered out due to duplication. If the search engines didn't have this facility in place, just imagine what the SERPs would look like. ;)
