We discuss early on in this blog that Google will never punish duplicate contents but what’s the point of discussing here? Yes Google will never punish but they will only choose one that they believe was the origin source of the article and get it listed in the Google main index result pages. The selection process is going to determine by the number of incoming links of the articles, the page rank value of the page, and any links to the original. Google will only keep one and toss the remaining to the so called “supplemental index”. (Secondary index of Google where the web pages stored will not be shown in the main index.) So how do you avoid such an issue if you want to publish some syndicated contents or re-post your original article to forums, blogs or article directories?
Case #1: Publish Syndicated Contents
If you want to publish syndicated contents to your site, first use a meta robot tags that says:
[quickcode]<meta name=”robots”, content=”noindex, follow”>[/quickcode]
this tell the search engine robots not to index your web page but gives the link value to the source sites. This work but only for sites or blogs which are under your control. So the second solution a is more desirable namely have your articles re-written. This well work for your own contents or “syndicated contents” from different articles source. Well, you may argue about this is plagiarism whatever but many information on the net are some how a replica of something else. For example, when IPod first launches, how many sites or blogs that told you the same thing? Many right? And how about the news agencies? Many of them just used the source contents and without them to rewritten. I am not saying you can copy directly from others people work, but you use it for gathering inspiration. That’s nothing wrong. You can use your own word to describe the same subject. It’s ok as long it is your own work. Just like the search engines duplicate content issues. I am sure it is written so many times but as long as I use my own words when I wrote this article, who cares? I hope you to see my point here.
Case #2: Rewrite your own contents to be ?% of difference
Why I put the “?” in the article? Because no one knows the exact figures unless you are Matt Cutts (Google search engineer whose main responsibilities are fight against web spam). I see some one suggests to have 20% difference and I saw someone says, it is to be at least 30%-40% of difference.
To me, I don’t know and I just listen to them. The most favorable ways of course it totally difference but in practical you can try and writes articles that have 10%. 20%, 30% or 40% of difference and sees which one will stay in the Google main index for say three months or longer without any incoming links to them.
Others Application of Rewriting your Articles
The other application of rewritten articles are building links with your site. Since you are going to submit your articles to different directories or blogs, you should always rewrite each versions before submitting. Later on I will show you a tool that allow you to easily rewrite your articles into 25 unique versions with 30% of difference (when compare to the originally) totally free. This tool is quite useful and so far I am satisfied with the performance after tried it for several times.
So stay tuned!
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