At present more visitors come to off-site articles than on-site, because of having higher Pagerank. But if I was seeking to maximize visitors, it wouldn’t be the best approach to post articles this way.

Having your article show up first in the search rankings on Ezinearticles vs. on your site are too very different things. It’s not ‘almost just as good’ unless you think giving away 90% of your traffic to Ezinearticles is a good strategy. In fact, you’re lucky if you can get 1 out of 10 readers of your articles to click through your resource box.

I’m in the business of making MY company money and assets, not ezinearticles.com so I try to keep the content on my sites unique to my sites. While I do submit articles to the directories, it’s not my main strategy as I’d rather invest the time and money into my sites than someone else’s. There are many ways to get links for SEO that don’t involve diluting out your content on hundreds of sites other than yours.

There are lots of different ways to do things, but I’m betting if you stopped submiting the same articles on your site to article directories, you’d get higher rankings and more traffic to your pages.

But what if it doesn’t? What if it is filtered out and the article at EzineArticles.com shows up in the rankings instead? From a traffic perspective, that is almost as good, since the link in the resource box points back to your site.

There is another benefit to be considered from your article showing up all over the Web. Even if it never ranks for anything in the search engines, on your website or elsewhere, the links it brings in are still pretty powerful.

I really do not see how creating content and then allowing it to be duplicated can hurt a website’s rankings.

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Yes I am talking about ecommerce - I guess the content is a hard one s with 8,000 odd products that come and go it owuld be tough! But I guess I have got to do it!

Perhaps it the products that appear on page 2 or page 3 or page 4 etc of given categories that are not indexed well enough. How to make a better linking structure here I am not sure.

I will take your advice on board though - it is apprecaited.

Your pages may not be indexed due to poor linking structure, no backlinks, too little content or a variety of other reasons, but probably not the meta description tags. It’s a good idea to change them out, but would be lower on my list of priorities.

To solve the problem, I just would re-write the duplicate paragraphs. You’re not going to see much problem from just a couple of paragraphs, especially if the content is unique to the site. My main reason for making this post is to educate people who mostly use PLR/scraped content on their sites. Unique content is best if you want high search engine rankings.

What should Ido about this?

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