Is Publishing Duplicate Content Hurting Your Article Revenues?
There are many sites that will pay you to write, but so many online writers struggle with ideas for writing enough content for each site. As a result, since they own the content, they will often decide to just copy one article and paste it on many sites. Though they think they are going to make more money this way, they often make much less.
Copying and pasting content to a variety of sites produces duplicate content, and the search engines do not like to see duplicate content. Remember, search engines run their business from the standpoint of the readers, not the viewpoint of the authors.
When search engines find the same article on many different sites, it sees the article as spam, and will rank it accordingly. As such, the articles will be so low on the search engine, visitors will rarely, if ever, be directed there. When there are less visitors to your web content, you earn far less money.
Now, just because you can't use the same article on a bunch of sites doesn't mean that you can't write similar articles to the original and publish it on other sites. After all, why should your keyword research on the subject go to waste? In fact, sometimes you can re-write the content to that it appeals to a different reader altogether.
Re-writing content is an easy way to use one original, researched article across many sites without violating any search engine rules, while keeping readers happy. It is also a way to grab a different audience for content and get new visitors to your content.
In the end, understanding how to avoid duplicate content and how to re-write articles will help you earn more money online without having to do all the additional work of writing new articles every day.
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Is not duplicate content, it is just that google or other directories they will show the first one indexed and the rest lower or not indexed at all. However,since I am doing article marketing for affiliate income, I can tell you that I see sometimes the same article ranking on different article directories on the first page of Google without any change. But if you have the desire is better to re-write it if you want money from Adsense.
Very true Redrossero. I am an article marketer as well and often times the same article will come up on page one of google from a different directory. You are not penalized for duplicate content for offsite content. In other words you will only get penalized if you place the same article on the same domain multiple times. The amount of adsense revenue you make has nothing to do with placing the same article in multiple places it has more to do with how much of an authority that particular directory is. If it gets alot of traffic you will make more money, if it doesn't you will make less.
Good advice
Great article with very good points on article writing.
Thanks for the article and the advice. I am not fearing duplicate content like I used to, but I will continue to research the topic.
There are benefits to writing new, fresh articles. I'm completely with you. When you rework an article for another site, you tend to add or subtract info as needed. You have double the chances of landing on the first page of search results, too.
Nice article.
Duplicate content in the same website is a problem. However, posting duplicate content on different websites is acceptable.
I like the "rewriting" position. I have had articles I have copied get rejected, so it is just safer to rewrite if nothing else.
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