Comments on: Blogging Articles – Pros and Cons http://www.netscribepro.com/188/blogging-articles-pros-and-cons/ Writing For The Internet And Because I Love It! Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:24:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: RJ the PLR Guy http://www.netscribepro.com/188/blogging-articles-pros-and-cons/comment-page-1/#comment-60 RJ the PLR Guy Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:52:02 +0000 http://www.netscribepro.com/?p=188#comment-60 I just wanted to pipe up here and share something about the duplicate content 'penalty'. It's not really a penalty as we normally think one would be, rather it's a filter of sorts. Depending on how you look at things, duplicate content can hurt your website or blog. If you have a low-visibility, low-trust website to begin with, and it has nothing unique to offer, PLR articles, (or articles syndicated from article directories, etc) won't do you much good at all. Websites with higher overall trust and visibility will actually benefit from content, even if it's duplicated, but obscure websites will not, at least from what I've seen. Now, whether or not there are long-terms negative effects of duplicate content on a website, that I don't know for sure, though I doubt it, so long as one of the "problems" are fixed. Either you'll have to find a way build the all-important inbound links to your site (with real value, not just article directory submissions), or you'll have to add a substantial amount of unique content so that you have something to offer search engines, and ultimately, the end user. I mean, people do rely solely on syndicated content (or rehashed content) to support their blogs/websites, but these generally have a very short shelf life. I just wanted to pipe up here and share something about the duplicate content ‘penalty’. It’s not really a penalty as we normally think one would be, rather it’s a filter of sorts. Depending on how you look at things, duplicate content can hurt your website or blog. If you have a low-visibility, low-trust website to begin with, and it has nothing unique to offer, PLR articles, (or articles syndicated from article directories, etc) won’t do you much good at all. Websites with higher overall trust and visibility will actually benefit from content, even if it’s duplicated, but obscure websites will not, at least from what I’ve seen.

Now, whether or not there are long-terms negative effects of duplicate content on a website, that I don’t know for sure, though I doubt it, so long as one of the “problems” are fixed. Either you’ll have to find a way build the all-important inbound links to your site (with real value, not just article directory submissions), or you’ll have to add a substantial amount of unique content so that you have something to offer search engines, and ultimately, the end user.

I mean, people do rely solely on syndicated content (or rehashed content) to support their blogs/websites, but these generally have a very short shelf life.

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