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Other Added - Article Marketing, Duplicate Content, Biting Yourself in the Foot?
There's a great little article ('Business Lifeforms') on the back pages of the UK's leading management magazine, Management Today each month. It's a spoof (at least I think it is!) about some fictitious key player in a fictitious organisation. For January, it's about Ken, who's a 'Facilities Manager'.Now Ken has seen it all and truly worked his way up from the bottom to the top. Until, that is, a couple of years ago when new MBA-armed suits took over and decide to slash Ken's department (until now, running very, very smoothly under Ken's watchful eye) and Ken himself. Of course it all goes pear-shaped and the top dog has to come grovelling back to Ken, offer him loads of money and a big car, basically to ensu
If however the trend continues, it will become more difficult to identify individual unique articles, especially for RSS feeds.
~ Think about it ~
It is already almost as cost effective to buy articles with rights as use articles from article directories.
Do you want backlinks from your articles?
~ Spreading the backlinks ~
I currently like sourcing articles from multiple locations. Many smaller article directories who have intelligently included a link to their site at the bottom of article content gain a great deal of exposure from content sites redistributing their articles. The backlinks are invaluable. However, if these sites start to contain duplicate articles with different titles, I will simply be forced to collect articles from the largest article directories. So much for diversification... lets all encourage monopolies!
The same would be especially true for RSS feeds.
~ Automated Submission ~
Technology is now helping authors distribute their articles across the
When you are looking to start a new business, you want all the help you can get. Many people have to go to the bank to get a loan, and this requires a lot of research. You must have a workable business plan before any bank will allow you to take their money. In order to secure a loan, you will have to have some sort of credit. Though this can be the hard part, there is help out there if you fall short in what you need to have. Depending on who you are you may be able to get a grant to start a business in your area.If you are a woman, it might be easier for you to get a grant to start a business. Because so many business owners are men, women can get a grant to help them get started. This is in an effort to in courage more women to step out into the world and start their own business. If you are a woman, and you would like to get a grant to start a business, you may wan
Various measures are thrown back and forth to combat this:-
~ Author Perspective ~
- Rotation of bio boxes
- Rotation of paragraphs
- Changing keywords
- Changing Titles
~ Article Site Perspective ~
- Niche Categories
- Splitting articles into parts on seperate pages
- Splitting articles into parts on the same page and intelligent use of tables or CSS
- Including related article snippets on the same page
Article Directories can easily make every single article they publish appear unique to the search engines, without changing any of an authors original words. It is harder for blog publishers, but it still can be achieved, and even automated to a certain extent.
~ Rotation Can Reduce your Article Distribution ~
One of the main reasons for publishing articles is to generate keyword focused backlinks with appropriate anchor text. You want your article picked up by as many sites as possible.
- Rotation of bio boxes does not affect distribution
- Rotation of paragraphs does not affect distribution
- Changing a few keywords in the article body may reduce or increase your distribution
Changing the title of your articles can reduce distribution!
Lets go into this in more detail...
~ How articles are used for content sites ~
As well as writing about article publishing, my main business model is niche marketing. Creating niche focused websites to provide relevant information for people searching on a particular topic.
In this article I don't want to focus on what makes a good or bad niche website.
When creating niche websites, it is cost/time efficient to use various forms of automated or semi-automated tools to collect content to display that is relevant to your audience.
With articles and RSS feeds of articles, the primary way to determine whether content is unique is by way of title and author. If they are unique, it is likely that the content is unique.
It is prevalent to source your content from multiple locations, so you would collect articles, either manually or automatically from multiple locations. With RSS feeds you would subscribe to multiple RSS feeds.
If you are using good tools, duplicate content is excluded. You wouldn't want to post 10 different versions of the same article on your website.
~ Rotating Titles Defeats the Duplicate Checking ~
Yesterday I was collecting articles based on Search Engine Optimization for one of my sites. Using one of my semi-automatic tools, I gathered together over 950 supposedly unique articles from multiple sources.
These I intend to publish, 3 - 4 articles per day, over the next 8 months.
But I hit a problem.
When I sorted the articles by keyword density, I noticed that there were a fair number of articles, published by the same authors, that had different titles. Sometimes it was just the insertion of a number, at other times just a change of a single keyword.
Duplicate content!
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with full rights to modify them.
~ Growing Trend ~
The idea of rotating article titles is not currently widespread. I have noticed it on occasion in the past where it was obviously done for tracking purposes, just an insertion of a number, and it was easy to remove the duplicates.
If however the trend continues, it will become more difficult to identify individual unique articles, especially for RSS feeds.
~ Think about it ~
It is already almost as cost effective to buy articles with rights as use articles from article directories.
Do you want backlinks from your articles?
~ Spreading the backlinks ~
I currently like sourcing articles from multiple locations. Many smaller article directories who have intelligently included a link to their site at the bottom of article content gain a great deal of exposure from content sites redistributing their articles. The backlinks are invaluable. However, if these sites start to contain duplicate articles with different titles, I will simply be forced to collect articles from the largest article directories. So much for diversification... lets all encourage monopolies!
The same would be especially true for RSS feeds.
~ Automated Submission ~
Technology is now helping authors distribute their articles across the i
During a recent seminar I gave located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I discussed something called, "metadata". When I asked whether anyone ever heard of metadata, I was confronted with blank stares. This is exactly why I decided to write here about what it is and how it can impact your company.Metadata is information that exists in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Metadata is simply “data about data”, and your electronic documents probably contain lots of it. Metadata describes document attributes such as the title, author, content, location, and date of creation.Knowing this information can be helpful when cataloging electronic information. But metadata can also share confidential and potentially embarrassing information with an unintended audience. Would you want a potential customer of yours finding out historical data regarding the original au
- Rotation of bio boxes does not affect distribution
- Rotation of paragraphs does not affect distribution
- Changing a few keywords in the article body may reduce or increase your distribution
Changing the title of your articles can reduce distribution!
Lets go into this in more detail...
~ How articles are used for content sites ~
As well as writing about article publishing, my main business model is niche marketing. Creating niche focused websites to provide relevant information for people searching on a particular topic.
In this article I don't want to focus on what makes a good or bad niche website.
When creating niche websites, it is cost/time efficient to use various forms of automated or semi-automated tools to collect content to display that is relevant to your audience.
With articles and RSS feeds of articles, the primary way to determine whether content is unique is by way of title and author. If they are unique, it is likely that the content is unique.
It is prevalent to source your content from multiple locations, so you would collect articles, either manually or automatically from multiple locations. With RSS feeds you would subscribe to multiple RSS feeds.
If you are using good tools, duplicate content is excluded. You wouldn't want to post 10 different versions of the same article on your website.
~ Rotating Titles Defeats the Duplicate Checking ~
Yesterday I was collecting articles based on Search Engine Optimization for one of my sites. Using one of my semi-automatic tools, I gathered together over 950 supposedly unique articles from multiple sources.
These I intend to publish, 3 - 4 articles per day, over the next 8 months.
But I hit a problem.
When I sorted the articles by keyword density, I noticed that there were a fair number of articles, published by the same authors, that had different titles. Sometimes it was just the insertion of a number, at other times just a change of a single keyword.
Duplicate content!
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with full rights to modify them.
~ Growing Trend ~
The idea of rotating article titles is not currently widespread. I have noticed it on occasion in the past where it was obviously done for tracking purposes, just an insertion of a number, and it was easy to remove the duplicates.
If however the trend continues, it will become more difficult to identify individual unique articles, especially for RSS feeds.
~ Think about it ~
It is already almost as cost effective to buy articles with rights as use articles from article directories.
Do you want backlinks from your articles?
~ Spreading the backlinks ~
I currently like sourcing articles from multiple locations. Many smaller article directories who have intelligently included a link to their site at the bottom of article content gain a great deal of exposure from content sites redistributing their articles. The backlinks are invaluable. However, if these sites start to contain duplicate articles with different titles, I will simply be forced to collect articles from the largest article directories. So much for diversification... lets all encourage monopolies!
The same would be especially true for RSS feeds.
~ Automated Submission ~
Technology is now helping authors distribute their articles across the
Your culture and your conditioning cause you to perceive things differently. Some cultural values are worldwide, like showing manners, while many others are not. Your age also affects your perception; when you were six, red jelly and ice-cream was a great treat, now you’re 26 you may find it a bit silly.Most people, whether consciously or unconsciously, behave in a way that is mindful of what others think. We try to look good to impress others, buy the latest gadget and say we are among the first to get it, drive a shiny new car, or go to places that you might bump into a celebrity. Since our behaviour affects our buying, as a marketer you had better tune into your target market's values, or risk losing their custom.No matter what race, nationality or religion you are, variety, pleasant stimulation and value are all desired in our lives. When a task you were as
It is prevalent to source your content from multiple locations, so you would collect articles, either manually or automatically from multiple locations. With RSS feeds you would subscribe to multiple RSS feeds.
If you are using good tools, duplicate content is excluded. You wouldn't want to post 10 different versions of the same article on your website.
~ Rotating Titles Defeats the Duplicate Checking ~
Yesterday I was collecting articles based on Search Engine Optimization for one of my sites. Using one of my semi-automatic tools, I gathered together over 950 supposedly unique articles from multiple sources.
These I intend to publish, 3 - 4 articles per day, over the next 8 months.
But I hit a problem.
When I sorted the articles by keyword density, I noticed that there were a fair number of articles, published by the same authors, that had different titles. Sometimes it was just the insertion of a number, at other times just a change of a single keyword.
Duplicate content!
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with full rights to modify them.
~ Growing Trend ~
The idea of rotating article titles is not currently widespread. I have noticed it on occasion in the past where it was obviously done for tracking purposes, just an insertion of a number, and it was easy to remove the duplicates.
If however the trend continues, it will become more difficult to identify individual unique articles, especially for RSS feeds.
~ Think about it ~
It is already almost as cost effective to buy articles with rights as use articles from article directories.
Do you want backlinks from your articles?
~ Spreading the backlinks ~
I currently like sourcing articles from multiple locations. Many smaller article directories who have intelligently included a link to their site at the bottom of article content gain a great deal of exposure from content sites redistributing their articles. The backlinks are invaluable. However, if these sites start to contain duplicate articles with different titles, I will simply be forced to collect articles from the largest article directories. So much for diversification... lets all encourage monopolies!
The same would be especially true for RSS feeds.
~ Automated Submission ~
Technology is now helping authors distribute their articles across the
A consignment shop is a second-hand store that offers goods that were most likely used, but for a lower price than you would purchase new. Consignment shops are not the same as thrift or charity shops. They are owned for the gain of profit and the money is not donated to benefit anyone. Consignment ships are located all over the world and there are most likely five to ten shops located near you that are second-hand.Consignment shops are great if you are looking for some antique furniture or some cheap clothes. You can also find several other items at a consignment shop like toys and such. They are great to go to if you are on a budget. Just because things are second-hand doesn’t mean that it is below quality. Many things that are second hand just simply are owned previously. They could be brand new items with seal and everything, but the original owner just didn’t have
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with full rights to modify them.
~ Growing Trend ~
The idea of rotating article titles is not currently widespread. I have noticed it on occasion in the past where it was obviously done for tracking purposes, just an insertion of a number, and it was easy to remove the duplicates.
If however the trend continues, it will become more difficult to identify individual unique articles, especially for RSS feeds.
~ Think about it ~
It is already almost as cost effective to buy articles with rights as use articles from article directories.
Do you want backlinks from your articles?
~ Spreading the backlinks ~
I currently like sourcing articles from multiple locations. Many smaller article directories who have intelligently included a link to their site at the bottom of article content gain a great deal of exposure from content sites redistributing their articles. The backlinks are invaluable. However, if these sites start to contain duplicate articles with different titles, I will simply be forced to collect articles from the largest article directories. So much for diversification... lets all encourage monopolies!
The same would be especially true for RSS feeds.
~ Automated Submission ~
Technology is now helping authors distribute their articles across the
HELP! Get Me Started Online Now!Anyone wanting to start out with their own website on the Internet, although perfectly capable in matters offline, may feel like a dummy when it comes to those first steps online. Just the sheer volume of competing and distracting information available is enough to get you banging your head on the table in frustration.There is just so much but it often fails to consider the position of the complete beginner's question, 'Where do I start?'This is something the pros who have grown up with and often made the Internet what it is today do not consider when they expound ever more complex strategies and the latest of the advanced pieces of software. Novices, however, need a clear and simple path to follow so that they can get some experience behind them and the confidence to adopt the more esoteric possibilities that abound.
If however the trend continues, it will become more difficult to identify individual unique articles, especially for RSS feeds.
~ Think about it ~
It is already almost as cost effective to buy articles with rights as use articles from article directories.
Do you want backlinks from your articles?
~ Spreading the backlinks ~
I currently like sourcing articles from multiple locations. Many smaller article directories who have intelligently included a link to their site at the bottom of article content gain a great deal of exposure from content sites redistributing their articles. The backlinks are invaluable. However, if these sites start to contain duplicate articles with different titles, I will simply be forced to collect articles from the largest article directories. So much for diversification... lets all encourage monopolies!
The same would be especially true for RSS feeds.
~ Automated Submission ~
Technology is now helping authors distribute their articles across the internet. The market for such tools is highly competitive, thus there is a race to implement improved features. One such feature now being implemented is the rotation of article titles. This is intended to help an author make every article published to article directories unique.
Whilst I commend the authors for their ingenuity in finding solutions, I am deeply concerned that this will initially reduce the use of articles submitted, and eventually discourage content site creators from sourcing articles from multiple locations, and opting to source only from the largest directories.
~ Think About Time ~
Writing 20 unique titles for articles will probably take as much time as writing a whole new article. Two articles in my opinion are certainly better to promote your business, both short term and long term, than one article with 20 different titles.
When it comes to monitoring the success of your article publishing efforts, one of the favorite techniques is to search for your article title, thus discovering which sites used your article, and allowing you to also determine how many of those same sites also include a backlink to your website.
~ Advice to Authors ~
Based on my experience both as an author and a creator of niche focused content sites, think very carefully before leaping on the bandwagon of the newest trend in article publishing. If you rotate your article titles, you are making life harder for content publishers, and your efforts might well backfire.
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