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Simple. Post on your own blog first. Then wait a few days. Then, ideally write a similar, but different article and link back to original. Alternatively, and not as ideal, for part 2 copy your article and link back to original w/ a link near top that says: "originally posted at..." and link to original article on your blog.
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M.C. Dwyer
Felton, CA
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Wayne Zuhl
Cranford, NJ
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Anita Clark
Warner Robins, GA
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
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Debbie Gartner
White Plains, NY
3,069,016
No, it does not hurt your SEO. The "duplicate content penalty" is a myth, and I prove it every day in our SEO work. There are some things you want to do in order though- 1. always write your original content on your website first. 2. Wait until your post on your website is indexed by google, 3. then take your post and post it to your AR blog in the post's entirety. 4. Then in your post that you post to ActiveRain, you add a link to your content on your original post on your website.
What google's algorithm will do is to choose which website it decides is the most authoritative for the content that you wrote and that site will have a higher ranking on the SERPS.
It really does not matter which website shows up higher than the other. Who cares! It is still you and your contact info. Your blog on AR may just show up first because google sees AR as a much higher authority website than your own website. There is nothing wrong with this.
What you will waste your time on is if you start "spinning" your post and put it on AR. That means you change a few sentences around, etc. That is a total waste of time because now Google's rank brain ( AI) is much smarter and can decipher that it is really the same post. Then you did that work for nothing because your AR blog post will still rank higher than your post on your website.
We post dupicate content all the time in the order I stated here, and both the AR blog and our website will show up on page one with the same content. And the same content will also rank on page one for our blog on Realtytimes. So that is evidence that you won't be punished for duplicate content.
This is just a very short version of SEO best practices, hope this helps, Katerina
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Rick Frissell
Valrico, FL
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M.C. Dwyer
Felton, CA
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Craig Daniels
Staten Island, NY
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Ron Tissier
Atlanta, GA
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Lynda White
Louisville, KY
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
5,584,178
Google allows 2 titles for one post.... I copy and paste to 6 different sites...... and I get Google juice..... usually, ActiveRain and MY website....
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M.C. Dwyer
Felton, CA
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Melissa Jackson REALTOR
Azle, TX
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Steven Nickens
Wailea, HI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
6,656,799
Debbie Gartner has good knowledge on this topic.
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
Scottsdale, AZ
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
2,703,737
Debbie Gartner has given a great answer.
Now perhaps Anita Clark and Katerina Nestor & Katerina Gasset will opine... they are also experts on this topic.
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Steven Nickens
Wailea, HI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
2,298,285
What Debbie Gartner said. I like to write an intro to the original article then create a link to the original article by it's title. That will take the visitor to the site of the original post... Killing two birds with one stone, so to speak.
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Melissa Jackson REALTOR
Azle, TX
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
931,048
Not really. Google knows how to ignore content when similar authority content already exisits. Changing a few words is looked at by google as " Near duplicate content" so doing that doesn't fool anyone or help anything.
So there are two forms:
(A) Someone who takes a piece content from one site and slightly changes it and posts it on their own site.
(B) They take all the content from one page and puts it on their own page but the boiler plate content in the header, footer, etc is different.
We see both of these forms a lot on the web.
So there are two forms:
(A) Someone who takes a piece content from one site and slightly changes it and posts it on their own site.
(B) They take all the content from one page and puts it on their own page but the boiler plate content in the header, footer, etc is different.
We see both of these forms a lot on the web.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
1,092,025
Several ways. I like to rewrite topics with very similar yet differently worded articles.
You can also post on your site and post to ActiveRain with a backlink stating "content originally written for ______.com"
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
5,281,946
Post an attribution on one of the sites for the initial blog. Change the blog content around somewhat to make it look fresh.
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
1,868,678
Tammy Emineth just did a post on this maybe 2 weeks ago. She advises on SEO & answers your questions.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Erika Rae Albert, Aust...
Austin, TX
2,229,165
I will have to reseach and get back to you
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
5,461,333
Not true as long as you post it on your site first, then here with the line at the bottom of the page, "Originally posted @____________" (the direct link back to the same article on your website).
Think about it, we re-blog here all the time - if that 'rule' was true, we wouldn't be encouraged to re-blog!
Have at it Erika Albert - just be sure to post that tag line when you later post it here!
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Melissa Jackson REALTOR
Azle, TX
3,988,138
Write different articles and you will never be penalized.
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Steven Nickens
Wailea, HI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
3,419,693
I post on my WP site first ... wait for Google to index the post ... then on AR with a note where it was first published.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Tamala Stewart
Parker, CO
509,499
Thanks for your question. I'm parked and reading. I will bookmarm this as well.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
3,416,322
I change it around to make it look new.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
5,454,763
I only post to AR!
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
1,027,657
As Bob Crane says, Debbie Gartner is quite the expert on this topic.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
809,308
I love Nestor & Katerina Gasset's very detailed answer. I did not know, and had heard the myth that duplicate content hurt not helped. I wondered that with re-blogging here on AR too actually, but figured AR knew enough that it was an acceptable practice. Great question and answers. -Kasey
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
1,534,654
Debbie Gartner has a good answer in one school of thought. There is another school of thought that says "If Google cared about duplicate content, the major portals wouldn't have a huge hit against them."
I don't worry about duplicate content. I do post my listing blogs to my site first and wait a couple of days before hitting up my other sites, but that's because I want Google to see mine first and hopefully give me some good juice. On my last time doing this, I owned 8 of the top 10 results (#2-9) for my listing's address. Sadly, I've been hamstrung of late and can no longer keep my listings off of competitor sites, which really pisses me off!
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
1,007,023
3,074,289
1,611,105
Nope, that's old school, just wait 48 hours between posts and you are Google-good!
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
5,246,504
I'd say Debbie Gartner has the best answer.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
1,713,581
I change the title and some of the wording so that the spiders don't see duplicate content.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
5,152,880
Good question! I can't suggest anything other that the great answers below. Best to change the wording I think.
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Susie Kay
Plano, TX
5,090,970
8,119,191
341,353
5,982,152
Debbie has it right, post on your personal site first. I also add *originally posted at _______.
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602,025
I know the answer to this but refuse to do it because it's so time consuming. I need to get on the ball!
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Add/delete content. Change the appearance, font size, colors, punctuation, etc.
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Erika Albert - I am not much after SEO - and I do see an excellent answer from Debbie Gartner.
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Great question. I'm coming back to read more replies. Looks like you have some good advice from experienced bloggers.
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