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Article marketing is one of the many ways to send traffic and backlinks towards your site. Although it’s more time-consuming than methods like high pagerank dofollow blog commenting, blog carnivals, and forum marketing, it still yields results.
Google, of course, hates duplicate content and thus probably views articles reposted on different sites with contempt. Unless you intend only to submit your article to a single directory (why even go through the effort?), your poor content might suffer!
Google actually doesn’t penalize for duplicate content on different domains in most cases - props goes to Internet Marketing Strategies for pointing that out (note to self: research topics before posting about them. Not that I don’t already do that, of course. Wink wink. Nudge nudge). Google simply dislikes duplicate content on the same site (i.e. the normal and printer versions of an article), so submitting the same article to various directories should be fine. There are other uses for this trick to make money blogging, though, so don’t fret.
GETTING AROUND THE PROBLEM
Ironically, a simple way to get rid of duplicate content and bypass Google’s stringent content policies is with Google itself. Its translation tool, to be exact.
Basically, just plug in your text and translate it a few times. For example, your pattern could go something like English -> Spanish -> French -> Russian -> German -> English. At the end of this chain, you’ll get a whole new article with some nice synonyms and different phrases used. Just make sure to proofread the article, or else “One day, Roberto the Magician decided to pull a rabbit out of his magical hat at a birthday party.” can turn into “One day, Roberto, a magician decided to send a rabbit from his hat magic child to a birthday celebration.”
Every new combination results in a whole new article, and it shouldn’t be too hard to whip up a script that does this automatically due to Google’s lack of a captcha, creating a simple way to spin out hundreds of different and often nonsensical articles.
By David Hobson on Jul 21, 2008 | Reply
Good post and a really good trick to re-write your articles.
By Bob Younce at the Writing Journey on Jul 21, 2008 | Reply
Holy crap, Max.
Have you really been back for like 2 months and I’m just now noticing? How’s that even possible?
At any rate, I wonder if there isn’t even more advanced rewriting technology available. I called Dell tech support the other day, and I swear they were screwing with me. They took their answers and fed them through the exact process you describe here, but they did it in seconds.
By Germz on Jul 21, 2008 | Reply
Holy robert the magician! How did I not see this!
Great article I’ll feature you this sunday in my weekend wrap up post.
By Shireishou on Jul 21, 2008 | Reply
ah..thats nice tips to re write article. since now I’m stuck with new idea
By Giselle on Jul 21, 2008 | Reply
I have heard of doing this before, just never tried it. Well anything is worth trying once, but …..I am probably going to have to keep writing content, lol.
By CK on Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
wow. Thanks for this BRILLIANT tips
By World on Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
Great tips and techniques! Thanks a lot.
By Codrut Turcanu I Remarkable Blogging dot Com on Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
Good point Max!
Article marketing is one of the best ways to drive traffic. Thanks for sharing this tool.
By Rashid on Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
Nice share, how did you research this way? I’ve been looking for a software for that.
By seoman on Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
nice trick will give a try
By Don't Wait for Search Engines - 14 Ways to Get Traffic Now! on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
Cool trick, however, duplicate content applies to content that is repeated on the same site, such as two versions of the same page, for example, a readable and print version on a website.
The duplicate is really about the same domain and web design. Submitting the same article to a million different sites is not duplicate content, that’s a common misconception. If it was duplicate content, the millions of sites that syndicate and disburse articles would been banned long ago.
You can test it yourself write an article and submit it to 100 sites, they will all show up in search results for the keyword, some higher than others, depending on the article site, but they will all be there.
The logic follows that if Google was to penalize these sites for duplicate content for same articles they publish there would be no article sites left.
By Max Miroff on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
@JR: Well now I just feel stupid :O
I updated the post.
By Don't Wait for the Search Engines - 14 Ways to Increase Website Traffic Now! on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
Hey Max, don’t be silly, when I first started out I spent two months sitting and rewriting hundreds of my articles, because I read warnings on marketing guides about dupe content, until I read a forum post that revealed the truth about duplicate content. And what this guy said made total sense and so I tested for myself and he was right! This is actually a very common misconception.
I like your style Max, with your openness to new ideas and self awareness you will go far!
JR
By monkeysuit on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
great trick I hope to put this to use.
By edy on Aug 1, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for sharing
By newtrading on Aug 2, 2008 | Reply
wow .. yes i agree again with your idea
so i make a automatted translated from english-> germany -> france -> english
please take a look at http://www.mantep.com/undupcontent
By Neon Open Signs on Aug 11, 2008 | Reply
Wow want a cool little trick. This is a pretty cool blog, I think i’ll stick around for awhile!
By Paid Online Free Surveys on Aug 12, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the tip! Didn’t realize that could be done.
By Lucas on Aug 16, 2008 | Reply
The result of the translation is laughable! I got a paragraph from my blog post of mine to test how powerful this Google translator realy is.
From “Your content - it’s what you want your audience to see. It’s where your sales pitch, your call to action, and/or the information you want to share are. You would want to keep your visitors’ attention on this one if you want to meet your site’s goal — to sell something or to give information.”
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It became “Its content - I want to see the public. This is your location, you call to action, and / or suit to access the information you want to share. I want your audience to be interested in your site, if you want to meet this goal - to sell part or provide information.”
By Max Miroff on Aug 16, 2008 | Reply
@Lucas: So then it’s reached the quality of your everyday average crappy DP rewriter, but free!