Comments on: Duplicate Web Content: Google Penalty Myth

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:51:29 +0000

I don’t use article spinners. You can submit the same article to multiple directories. There’s no harm in that. And yes, the links will count.

I often change the title and the anchor text for different article directories, to target more long tail keyword phrases. Just changing the title can help you reach more of your market if you use a slightly different phrase in each title.

By: Lisa @ senior people meet review

Lisa @ senior people meet review — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:08:04 +0000

Lynn I have a question. I do article marketing in order to get backlinks. When I create a well written article, am I doing something wrong by submitting it to different article directories? Will I get credit for the links back to my site- or am I supposed to “spin” the article like so many suggest? I understand that I have to alter anchor text, but do I have to alter the wording of the article as well? Thank you!

By: Tom @ Web Design Chester

Tom @ Web Design Chester — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:35:22 +0000

I was wondering what would happen with duplicate content. I have found a few spammy style sites that are using my articles but stripping the link back to my site. My articles are getting indexed first but I was worried that the spammy sites would affect on me. Thanks

By: Matt@DVD Duplication

Matt@DVD Duplication — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:11:29 +0000

Well I was looking for info on duplicate content and since I read this blog regularly I’m glad I stopped by to get your take on the situation. Not really keen on code tinkering, canonical? oh oh. here’s hoping . . . haha

By: DeAnna Troupe @ Freelance Guide Online

DeAnna Troupe @ Freelance Guide Online — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:05:50 +0000

This is great information, Lynn. I’m going to post this video to my blog. Thanks for sharing.

By: Ebiz Graphics

Ebiz Graphics — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:17:01 +0000

Google is concerned about revolves around affiliate programs. It has been common practice for high traffic websites to establish an affiliate program. Affiliate programs themselves don’t worry Google. What it doesn’t like though, is for an affiliate program to take a template and then offer it to its base of affiliates to use. Some of the higher traffic websites end up with thousands upon thousands of duplicate websites all promoting the very same things and, according to Google, not offering any real value to the internet community. A website offering this type of cookie cutter website can easily find themselves de-listed by Google as happened to Template Monster a while back.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:15:48 +0000

Right. I like how he explained the difference between harmless duplicate content, and obvious manipulation of search results. Because there IS a difference – and I thought he did a good job of explaining that in the video.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:14:32 +0000

Thank you – @IMTW is a super fun podcast!

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:14:11 +0000

They don’t – they serve the most relevant result based on the individual search query. You might want to watch the video again to get a better understanding.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:13:14 +0000

That’s somewhat true, but there is a lot more to Duplicate Content than just blatant plagiarism. Take news for example – you usually get the same news across various networks or television channels. And as another example, articles and press releases are made to be distributed across the internet to reach the broadest market possible. It’s nice to know there’s no real concern with republishing articles with reprint rights, particularly if you optimize them for a slightly different keyword phrase and/or add your thoughts via introduction and conclusion before & after the piece…

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:09:19 +0000

LOL, true! I really appreciated how he spelled everything out in detail within the video, nice job on that, so it does make for a great resource to share when that discussion comes up.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:06:29 +0000

If it DOES bother you, check out this recent post on Problogger on ways to stop that from happening: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/10/20/stop-scrappers-and-spammers-fast/

By: Bookmarking Submissions

Bookmarking Submissions — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:11:01 +0000

I would comment that Duplicate Content has become a huge topic of discussion lately, thanks to the new filters that search engines have implemented. This article will help you understand why you might be caught in the filter, and ways to avoid it. We’ll also show you how you can determine if your pages have duplicate content, and what to do to fix it. Search engine spam is any deceitful attempts to deliberately trick the search engine into returning inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results. Many times this behavior is seen in pages that are exact replicas of other pages which are created to receive better results in the search engine.

By: Web Content Writing: Tips & Resources | ClickNewz! Internet Marketing Blog

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:55:50 +0000

[...] Watch for news or stories that surface that will be of interest to your market, or that you can write about with a slant that relates to your topic. Subscribe to Google Alerts with specific keyword phrases, scan traditional media such as magazines and television, search YouTube for new and interesting videos, etc. This type of content is great for niche blogs, along with your thoughts or opinions on the topic. (example) [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:27:23 +0000

Thanks for the great post.

You Rock!
I love IMTW too!