Syndicated content vs duplicate content

i will be following this post with interest.

there are two sides to the question though. Will you get penalised , but also, will there be any benefit if you don't.

There are a few dozen people here making a full-time living by syndicating their content, Phil.

Do you think that might perhaps be "benefit"?

No, it doesn't. That's completely wrong.

If you'll excuse an observation, Tantivy, I'd strongly advise against it.

That has nothing to do with syndicating your content, at all.

The potential problem with mass submission to article directories is the Penguin update.

As several of us have been explaining in other threads, Google has stated openly that they regard that as "spammy backlinks" because article directories are not specifically relevant sites.

You may well get your own site penalized from doing that, as others have done.

If that happens, just please don't start announcing that you've been "penalized for syndicated content" because that will not be the case.

It will be the mass backlinks on non-relevant sites that catch you out - nothing to do with the content itself at all! :rolleyes: :p

Submitting mass article directory copies (which as far as I know, all the content syndicators here advise against), is something totally different from article syndication.

Article directories are not in themselves "content syndication" - they're a stepping-stone toward content syndication on relevant sites (just the kind that Google likes so much, and goes to such lengths to clarify for people).

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ifference.html <--- this link will help you!

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

I don't mean it impolitely in any way, but you say that you're going to do this in order to find out what duplicate content really means: the reality is that if/when you incur any penalties for having done it, you won't have learned anything about that at all. All you'll have learned will be something already both obvious and openly announced about the Penguin update - namely that widespread submission to article directories is both risky and a complete waste of time. There are probably 100 people here who could have told you that for nothing (and actually have done, if you read their threads).

What you say you want to learn about is actually something that countless Warriors are already learning about on a constantly ongoing basis, simply by making our livings through content syndication.

If you really want to test what you say you want to test, do it through syndication to relevant sites, not to article directories!

But as one of the many already doing that for a living, I can tell you what the outcome will be, and so can countless others here.

Completely aside from the conclusions you have drawn, and which Alexa and others have already responded to admirably...

Your original post gives the impression that Alexa is a lone voice, crying against the masses. Not so..:rolleyes:

Many of us make an extremely comfortable living because we implement article syndication. Similarly, many of us have added our opinions and support for syndication to countless similar threads in the past.

The most interesting thing about this to me is that tantivy is looking at things like it is a question of SEO. Article syndication is more about engaging the market in places in which they actively are. And the last time I checked, article directories do not fit within those parameters.

The concept of syndication has nothing to do with the backlinks that may (or may not) occur. The concept is to introduce your content and the offer attached to a prospective market in their habitat. If they haven't seen it yet, it's new to them.

So, test until your heart's content, Tantivy. You are apparently testing the wrong things.