Is Duplicate Content Penalty For Real?
by Keith Awen
http://ptbook.artemispro.hop.clickbank.net
I have watched with amusement as an entire industry has
evolved to battle the duplicate content penalty issue.
Then I watched with amusement as people started to call
the duplicate content penalty a myth. The debate
continues in many forums. Since I perpetrated the term
duplicate content penalty a couple of years ago at the
first Freedom Event, I thought it time that I weighed in
on the issue.
Its not a myth. You can check it out yourself. Submit an
article to enough sites that you get 300 or so publishers
to publish it on their site. Then do a search for the
title of the article a couple/three weeks later on Google.
Notice how you get 300 or so results? Now monitor that
search for another couple/three weeks. Notice how it
shrinks to 16 or so results? At the end of those results,
you will see a message that says:
In order to show you the most relevant results, we have
omitted some entries very similar to the 16 already
displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with
the omitted results included. This is the infamous
duplicate result penalty.
I hate that term even though I made it up. During my
Freedom Event, I was trying to show people how it was
really dumb to submit the same article everywhere. I used
the term dupe content penalty as a shorthand for that
effect. If you want to use Googles words to describe
this effect, it should probably be called the similar
result ommission, but that isnt quite as sexy, is it?
In any case, it is interesting to note that Google isnt
perfect at the job yet. If they were perfect, you would
see only 1 result in the above test instead of 16.
However, 300 is 18.75 times as many results as 16. The
so-called duplicate content penalty is devastating.
It makes article submitters work 18.75 time harder than
they did four years ago to get the same results in terms
of inbound links and traffic from each article submission.
The solution? 1. You can submit a different article to
each site (massively labor intensive). 2. You can use an
article submission tool that does that for you. My tool
is currently the only one that does that submitting
unique articles on the fly, but Im sure the me too
copycats will be out in force soon. You should have
several tools to choose from in the next few weeks.
If you do either of the above, you can keep all 300 of
those articles in the search results. If you work out the
math, thats 18.75 times more result for the same amount
of work. Time and efficiency is why I use Artemis Pro
article submission software to promote my business.
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