Forum Moderators: phranque
Firstly, congrats on an excellent forum.
A very quick question.
The company I work for, we write some related articles that I think are useful to others.
We publish them on our own website, but should I publish them on Article Websites as well?
Would we suffer from duplicate content etc? Is it a bad thing if I were to submit our articles to these sites?
Some people I ask say no, it will hit you, some people I ask say yes as although PR might drop, traffic from these articles could be worthwhile.
Any ideas the most accurate answer?
The concept of giving away content in exchange for a link and or mention with/link is a good one IMHO. But change the content to be significantly different from what's on your website. Create an abstract format and then use a link back to your main article.
Some SEO articles suggest that there is no suck thing as duplicate content penalty. According to them when you think you are being penalized for duplicate content is nothing but the way top search engines treat your site for using the content another higher ranked site is providing. For example if you have a low ranked site with original content which you later post on a higher ranked site, the lower ranked site with the original content will not be ranked (or even shown on the SERPs) because the way search engines are filtering the results. They show the higher ranked ones first and ignore all others with the same content. It's only a theory, but I think it makes sense...
