Thanks Chris, I figured you would be strict on dupe content, and I understand why, so thats fair enough.

There’s certainly plenty to write about, but for my purposes it would have saved a lot of time not to have to, thats all – LOL!

(Is that another way of saying I’m lazy!?)

Can you tell us what your process is to assess for dupe content? Do you run the page through copyscape? Any other approach… or is it “secret Ezinearticles business”?!!

Cheers, and thanks for your prompt response to my question.

Happy New Year.

Peter

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Peter,

We use software, hardware and humanware to detect duplicate content…

I’ll talk more about it after we’ve filed for a patent. :-)

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Hi Chris,

Could you comment on Google’s official statement on duplicate content

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

Is there anything authors should do differently based on these points?

ie

Will placing articles on your site and syndicating them all over the Net have an effect on your site’s rankings or PR?

Thanks

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Herman,

As a rule, we don’t comment on what we think Google will or won’t do because we have no control over that.

What I think authors should do:

Only syndicate content on highly reputable websites (hint hint, like EzineArticles.com) and forget about the 2nd and 3rd tier websites that are not niche specific to your topical area of expertise.

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Thanks for your reply.

How do you tell if a site is reputable?

If a site has only general categories ie business is this still considered niche specific enough or should one only submit to sites that are closer to your niche?

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Herman,

How do you tell if a site is reputable?

I wrote an article on that very topic:
http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Makes-An-Article-Directory-A-Great-Place-To-Submit?&id=94880

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After you’ve submitted to the article directory, does it generate traffic back to your site or not? Do you find your article distributed to other niche websites or do your articles get picked up by email newsletter publishers?

Nicely said Chris…do you have any recommendations how to track the amount of traffic the article receives apart from these limited ideas?

Ad Tracker (redirected URL may not be permanent)
Web Stats (takes time to decipher referring URLS)
Aricle Directory provides traffic stats (not targeted)

Perhaps a combination of these may be best…??

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Yes, combo is best.

I use GoogleAlerts.com, Google’s newsbot alert thing, our own stats, etc.

I’m not a fan of ad trackers for article marketing purposes and recommend against it.

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