First, Thank you for your offer of a copy of the duplicative article, but no problem there. I don’t dispute the similarities that existed. I apologize for it happening. Article was published last August, a longish time ago. Don’t know how it happened, but it did…

The rejected article has now been re-written re-submitted and the revised version was accepted.

I do have a copy of every article I ever submitted. Unfortunately they are in NotePadPro files which I am not set up to easily search. Any search would have to be manual at this point.

Maybe I have to rethink that, consider uploading them to a website and Copyscape-searching each new submission first to be sure…

It wasn’t a problem before, but with over 300 articles live now it’s hard to remember exactly what all I have written.

Lance Winslow? Sean Mize? Other volume Authors? How do you guys keep track, avoid writing articles too much like one you have already written?

Second, Re:”A gentle suggestion: Make sure each new article is 100% unique / original.”

I have had the experience, on two occasions, of sitting down in front of a blank screen, picking a keyword phrase to promote, dreaming up a title, writing an article completely from scratch, no notes, no go-bys, and had it rejected for being too similar to something else I had written earlier.

So to make SURE an article is “100% unique / original” requires more than just honestly writing it new. It requires that we use some kind of duplicate-checking software (like Copyscape.com, for example), before submitting, to keep from accidentally and unknowingly repeating ourselves…

Or just going ahead and immediately re-writing it when the EzineArticles filters bounce it back at us.

Thank you for having the software tell us what article it is too much like so that we can easily see what changes to make!

First, as much as we’d like you to be able to trust our article submission interface… you should always have a local copy of every article you submit just in case.

Second, we have your duplicate (it was not an exact duplicate, but a high enough percentage of non-unique to trip the filters) submission…so if you don’t have it and want it, just email our support team for it.

To assist you seeing our point of view, go read this article of yours:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Learn-Spanish-for-More-Opportunities-and-Job-Offers!&id=730095

A gentle suggestion: Make sure each new article is 100% unique / original.

Also: There is no grandfathering (a term that describes that there is no allowances for past mistakes that are caught now in the future) on old articles that are edited. This means if you update by editing an old article, today’s anti-duplicate content software will be used to evaluate the uniqueness of your content.

The first time it happened to me, I was incredulous! I KNEW that the article was original and that I had just written it, from scratch, without “go-bys” or notes!

Then I realized that I had written a number of articles on the same subject, or variations thereof. And, like a preacher preaching on the same subject, I had developed several pet ways of saying things and “turns of phrase”, even coined a few that had become my favorites.

And the duplication filters were picking up as much on my style and manner of delivery as on anything else…

They are not without a point.

Now I vary the way I say the same thing, avoid using the same terms, even if the quality and readability of the article suffers a bit. Better to be different, even at some cost.

And maybe this subject is saturated and I should let it alone and consider writing more on other things.

And, if I want to “Preach the same sermon”, that’s O.K., so long as I take it on the road and get a different audience.

When the duplication filters start to spit your stuff back at you, that means that maybe you have saturated this market, and if you want to say essentially the same thing, say it elsewhere, where they haven’t heard it before…

Bottom line is, these are minor inconveniences that can be easily lived with and worked around, once understood.

It’s worthwhile if it makes it possible to filter out the PLR re-write hacks who are just writing filler, without thought, ideas or message…

If readers have to wade through too many junk articles to find our good ones, they may just get tired and go elsewhere…

The success of Google should convince us all… Give the customers what they are looking for and you get more customers and repeat customers… Give ‘em junk and they start looking elsewhere…

Glad you’re breaking the 3000 word article down into 500 word chunks! That is a proven concept that will result in more ROI for you for the same 3000 words than if you left them all in one article.

Now to answer your question:

Too many authors have already tried what you’re talking about doing… a big chunk intro and conclusion that is identical with the center guts of your article being the non-duplicative original content. Unfortunately, it’s just not a good article template formula. If you duplicated only 1 or 2 sentences, no big deal… but if you duplicated 20 sentences…now you’re not adding enough unique value per article.

Keep in mind, this duplicate content identification system we have looks at the unique footprint of your duplicate content as a percentage of your total word count. If your articles are already in the thin range of 250-350 words and you’re repeating 20 sentences (just for example), then your articles will not be accepted.

Lastly, I took a quick look at your pending articles and you’ve got nothing to fear as they look unique enough to me. In fact, I like your article template / checklist format. :-)

However, the author always has the option to post those articles elsewhere, and I DO NOT mean re-written articles either. I mean true original content.

Does your policy mean that my ten new articles will be rejected as duplicates, and I will be red flagged?

AND - if I hit the button twice at the same time, I get a notice. Those are helpful.

I NEVER EVER Want to publish someone else’s work as mine. I write for other authors from time to time (it pays the grocery bill!) and I don’t even use THAT content as my own.

Duplicate content just isn’t necessary. You can learn to write NEW content fast, and get it right without duplicating information.

Jan

We don’t consider every duplicate article attempt as “they are trying to game the system” as many are innocent mistakes. It’s when a pattern emerges that we begin to suspect something beyond simple mistakes.

One of the main objectives of any serious website owner, no matter what niche, should be to give their visitors meaningful and original content so that the visitor will gain value from it and return again for more. Or, in the case of article directories, we want awesome and original content for our distributors. If we give them crap, they go elsewhere.

PLR articles are running rampant in the article directory world. It is amazing how many people can get a hold of one article!

I can tell you that, as a whole, article directories are starting to beef up their “defenses” across the board.

Article Marketing is making a HUGE comeback right now and the ezine and directory owners know this. Therefore, they are only going to realize their importance in the whole scheme and, in turn, only accept quality, original, well-written articles. Mass submitted, spun or PLR articles are only going to become less and less valuable as they become more and more declined.

Respectfully,
Allen Graves