I have been doing a lot of research into the backlinks of some random niche sites, and I have noticed that most of them are submitting the same ~400 word article that is their first blog post to 15+ different article sites like EZA, squidoo, etc.. If I take a chunk of text from one of these articles and google it in quotes, it will return this statement
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 2 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
The omitted results are obviously just a lot of the same exact article in a bunch of different places.
Now, a lot of these sites are ranking (for niche terms) even with all this duplicate content, which is all obviously indexed.
:1zhelp:I'm wondering whether this duplication hurts or helps their rankings.
Further, would hand rewriting the same article to 3 article DBs trump copy and pasting the same article in 15?
(random numbers, adjust them as you please)
On a related note, is it a good idea to use a unique blog post as an article to submit? It is your own work, but is it duplicate content?
Thanks for the help
-ss
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 2 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
The omitted results are obviously just a lot of the same exact article in a bunch of different places.
Now, a lot of these sites are ranking (for niche terms) even with all this duplicate content, which is all obviously indexed.
:1zhelp:I'm wondering whether this duplication hurts or helps their rankings.
Further, would hand rewriting the same article to 3 article DBs trump copy and pasting the same article in 15?
(random numbers, adjust them as you please)
On a related note, is it a good idea to use a unique blog post as an article to submit? It is your own work, but is it duplicate content?
Thanks for the help
-ss