Hi stefan16,

The duplicate content penalty is only with regard to pages on your site. It is not like you will get in trouble if you send an article out to 100 or 1000 sites. Where ever the articles get picked up, say someone puts it on their site, since it is not unique, it most likely will not get listed. However, say you come to my art site. There you see a page on art investing (perhaps written by someone else) and since you are interested, you stay longer on my site. So I still benefit from having content that is duplicate, even though it will not necessarily be indexed. Lets say I have a whole file folder of "articles." This may or may not be viewed differently.

Another scenario is blogs. Someone visits a blot, sees a posting, which happens to be your article, the same as on several other blogs. The several count as links to your site, helping it to grow in popularity as I understand it.

So if you have the program that automatically posts for you, if you use it to post ten or 200, it will not hurt you in the least. At the least, you will get links. At the best, some of those links will bring traffic.

As I said, I would have a submitter even for submitting to just 10 sites. It is such a time saver. It will not hurt to submit to 200 though.

I personally would not post to any sites that hit me in the face with pop ups and ads as I am trying to post.

Likewise, one of the sites on the other posting tools than mentioned here, as I was loading it, up came a porn site. The only thing, I was installing it on a customers computer in their business office. That was bad form and needless to say, I do not recommend that submitter for that reason.

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Hi Stefan16:

Great post about duplicate content. There is a lot of confusion on the subject.

Another reason other webmasters want to place your article on their site is to earn money with ads. If you go to the major sites including Ezinearticles.com, you can see this in action.

One of the ways I'm able to get my articles listed on so many sites is because I use high paying, high searched and high click-through keywords in my articles.

A good example is the the keyword phrase, "Email Marketing." This phrase is searched 22,126 times a day. The top advertiser is spending over $10 per click and it has a click through rate of 1.57%. Contrast this to a keyword phrase like "email extractor" that has 29 searches a day with no one paying to advertise for that term with a 0% click through rate.

If you were a website owner and you wanted to earn money with ads on your site, you would be much more likely to put an article on your site that generated money for you than an article that didn't.

I've discovered that publishers are very publishing my articles on their sites for just this reason. They don't care about duplicate content, because as you said, it isn't considered duplicate content unless the article appears more than once on their own site.

The key to successful article marketing is a four step process.

1. Write an article that publishers want to put on their website ... an article that earns them money.
2. Write an article that your target market will read and find interesting. Position yourself as the expert.
3. Create a keyword rich anchor text link leading back to your website. This will not only give you lots of links but it will also cause the web page you link back to ... to go to the top of the search engines for that term or phrase ... generating even more traffic.
4. Get your article published on as many sites as possible. Syndication is the key.

I would love to hear what else you all are doing to generate traffic.

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Some of this you don't even need. You don't need PPC if your marketing articles. All you have to do is submit key rich articles to Article sites. Have your signature lead to what ever web hosting and autoresponder combination you're using and presto. You have it. Of course your autoresponder's squeeze page must be hot. The only thing you may want to spend change on is the web hosting and the autoresponder. You can submit to "Ezine Articles Dot Com (for free) All the good places to submit articles is for free. You can lose your shirt with PPC.

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@Steelworks: I understand that publishers and readers don't care much about duplicate content. If they find it interesting, they might decide to click your link in it or publish it on their sites. The only one care about it is Google itself (to my knowledge), and if they decide to penalize you; for instance, throw you from the first page search result of your keyword choice to 5th page, it will be really HURT your traffic, isn't it? Aren't that is how the Google's penalties work?

@Bob:the phrase which searched 22k/day; is it not too much competition for that keyword? I'm sure there are lots of other marketer aim for the same keyword and if there are floods of articles optimized for that keyword, the chance of a publisher found your article will be slimmer right?
Actually, there are lots of theories on choosing the right keyword and I really confused which to follow; so your method is checking total search and CPC?

paperkool: that is a great suggestion; only I don't have any idea on what I can offer in exchange for their opt-in. Some will say e-book or videos, but I don't really know where to get them.

1. Avoid UAW (Unique Article Wizard) like the plague. Both as author and publisher. Too easy to get banned (from Google, blogspot, wordpress.com or any other service) for spamming. Especially if you use the auto-post plugin as a publisher...
2. Duplicate Content hurts sites that intentionally or accidentally publish the same content over and over and over. Kind of like how the sites that haven't figured out url canonicalization (www and non-www) can hurt your rankings. (Steeleworks still said it better though. )
3. PPC is only worth it if you're earning more than your spending... No exceptions (unless you're testing markets or keywords I suppose.)

Just my 2c

If I were going to spend money, I would first spend on a domain name, keyword research, Local Search ala. Universal Business Listing (If I had a physical storefront,) and a digital product to give away for those that "sign-up" so I can collect names. Oh, and an email marketing service...

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Hey Josh, can you show me an example of a site that got banned from Google
for using UAW? It's no different than using ArticleMarketer that you and your dad
recommend (although ArticleMarketer doesn't exist anymore). In fact, it's better
than ArticleMarketer was in my opinion because you can time your submissions
instead of blasting them all at once...plus your articles are distributed to blogs as
well as article directories. I'm talking about using it as an author, not a publisher.

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Bob: 2. Then I would spend my money on Article Marketer and allow them to distribute my article to hundreds of sites including all the big sites like ezinearticles.com.

Bob, do you know if you have to be an expert author at EZA for Article Marketer to be able to submit my article. Obviously, I have not reached the Expert status yet.