I know a lot of folks are reading my articles are still wondering if duplicate content is really going to hurt their sites.

Let’s break this down.

Duplicate content IS going to have a negative effect on your sites if you want to rank high in the search engines. You may as well not have bothered to put the page on your site at all because it will likely be filtered out of the regular search results. If your page is filtered out of the regular search results, it’s not going to be seen by surfers and you won’t get free search engine traffic from it.

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I’ve written a few articles on Duplicate Content.  Basically, I believe you need to have unique content on your site if you want it to be competitive in the search engines.  If you want more details on Duplicate Content, please refer to my previous articles … ‘PLR and the Search Engine Connection’ and ‘The 2 Types of Duplicate Content’

As you know, it’s not just enough to rank high and get traffic from search engines. You have to have something of value on your site. Good content is one thing, but keeping people’s interest is another. Therefore, you also need the tools for planning out your site’s content (i.e. in-depth keyword research and analysis) along with a strategy for using them.

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I have found a great site for link building, in that you can join different groups, and have the articles submitted not only to your profile, but also to each one of the groups.

That site is http://www.searchles.com  It’s a PR 6 dofollow social media site.

For those who didn’t read the Mr Wong article, here’s basically what you do on Searchles:
1)    You join the site.
2)    You join a few different related groups for whatever site you’ll be submitting your blog posts and inner pages from.
3)    If there aren’t any related groups (which is doubtful) but if there aren’t, then create a group yourself!
4)    You submit the article, choosing to send the links to the related groups also.
5)    Now you have multiple backlinks… one on your profile page, and one per group that you joined.
6)    Now, on Mr. Wong, the tag pages had no follow links.  But, on Searchles, the tag pages are dofollow links.  So, you can add 3-4 tags, and have 3-4 groups, and get 7-9 different dofollow links per submission.

Since you are submitting all of the pages and posts from your site, this is building great links to your inner pages, something Google really likes.

So, if you’ve already submitted all of your pages and posts to Mr Wong, now you have a whole new dofollow social media site to submit to!

Also, as an added bonus, there is a fairly active community there in some of the groups, so you’re not only getting related links to your inner pages, but you can also get some good traffic from like-minded individuals who are a part of the groups and paying attention to all of the new posts to the groups.

This post builds off a previous article entitled, ‘PLR and the Search Engine Connection’.  You may want to review it first.

Presently, Google considers duplicate documents which are duplicate web pages (where the entire page is the same) AND query-specific duplicate documents (where only part of the web page is the same).

So, if even just text on part of the page is the same, the page may be flagged as query-specific duplicate content. This includes text like data feeds, product listings, paragraphs of text, and link directories with the same descriptions.

That’s pretty darn sophisticated if you think about it.

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Do you already have a site for internet marketers? Would you like to expand your reach? How about trying the web audio recording and streaming niche?

There are tons of webmasters out there who would like to bring their website into the realm of web 2.0 by adding multimedia to their sites. Audio is easy and inexpensive to create and even stream from a website. As most folks realize by now, audio works very well as a marketing message.

So do you think you can show webmasters and internet marketers how to record and stream audio from their site and make a profit?

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