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Hub You - Article Marketing, Duplicate Content, Biting Yourself in the Foot?
Henry Ford said that, “quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” What is doing it? And how well must it be done?In every industry, competitors find themselves fighting price wars or positioning themselves as the low-cost provider only to find out that in many instances, quality is as important to customers (if not more so) than the cost they pay. Quality can be defined as the acceptable standard of excellence determined by the receiver. But, having a quality product and getting it to market is only part of the challenge; especially if you see quality as one action or an end result.You can’t give lip service to quality. Anytime that there is a handoff, a deliverable, a discussion or even a decision to be made, quality is key. It has to be factored in and measured throughout the organization and considered in all activities of design, development,
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with f
Business planning is an adventure? I doubt that many people would describe it that way.Creating a business plan is not a favorite for many entrepreneurs. Business plans have gotten the reputation of being complicated, boring, and useless. Part of the reason for this is probably because of the requirement to have a business plan when applying for a loan.In that case, the plan is written more for the lending institution than it is for the business owner. Most likely, once the loan is approved, the business plan document is soon forgotten.Working on a business plan seems to bring out procrastination and frustration. It is easy to put off a project that seems as though it will take a big chunk of time and energy. There may also be hesitation to get into planning due to possible differences in opinion in your company as to what the priorities should
Various measures are thrown back and forth to combat this:-
~ Author Perspective ~
- Rotation of bio boxes
- Rotation of paragraphs
- Changing keywords
- Changing Titles
~ Article Site Perspective ~
- Niche Categories
- Splitting articles into parts on seperate pages
- Splitting articles into parts on the same page and intelligent use of tables or CSS
- Including related article snippets on the same page
Article Directories can easily make every single article they publish appear unique to the search engines, without changing any of an authors original words. It is harder for blog publishers, but it still can be achieved, and even automated to a certain extent.
~ Rotation Can Reduce your Article Distribution ~
One of the main reasons for publishing articles is to generate keyword focused backlinks with appropriate anchor text. You want your article picked up by as many sites as possible.
- Rotation of bio boxes does not affect distribution
- Rotation of paragraphs does not affect distribution
- Changing a few keywords in the article body may reduce or increase your distribution
Changing the title of your articles can reduce distribution!
Lets go into this in more detail...
~ How articles are used for content sites ~
As well as writing about article publishing, my main business model is niche marketing. Creating niche focused websites to provide relevant information for people searching on a particular topic.
In this article I don't want to focus on what makes a good or bad niche website.
When creating niche websites, it is cost/time efficient to use various forms of automated or semi-automated tools to collect content to display that is relevant to your audience.
With articles and RSS feeds of articles, the primary way to determine whether content is unique is by way of title and author. If they are unique, it is likely that the content is unique.
It is prevalent to source your content from multiple locations, so you would collect articles, either manually or automatically from multiple locations. With RSS feeds you would subscribe to multiple RSS feeds.
If you are using good tools, duplicate content is excluded. You wouldn't want to post 10 different versions of the same article on your website.
~ Rotating Titles Defeats the Duplicate Checking ~
Yesterday I was collecting articles based on Search Engine Optimization for one of my sites. Using one of my semi-automatic tools, I gathered together over 950 supposedly unique articles from multiple sources.
These I intend to publish, 3 - 4 articles per day, over the next 8 months.
But I hit a problem.
When I sorted the articles by keyword density, I noticed that there were a fair number of articles, published by the same authors, that had different titles. Sometimes it was just the insertion of a number, at other times just a change of a single keyword.
Duplicate content!
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with f
If your business involves selling a service, such as consultancy, you might find blatant advertising is counter-productive. After all, no-one wants to hire someone to help make their business more profitable when that other person is so obviously hungry for money!But you can't just sit back waiting for customers to find you; it simply doesn't work that way. You must get out there and drum up business yourself, based on subtle marketing methods that sometimes go unnoticed. But work wonderfully well, drumming up valuable advertising while costing little or even nothing. These neat ideas will get you started...NETWORKINGNetworking simply means building a client list, comprising potential customers for your business and people who might recommend or refer you to others. Networking involves making and using contacts from various circles, including collea
~ Rotation Can Reduce your Article Distribution ~
One of the main reasons for publishing articles is to generate keyword focused backlinks with appropriate anchor text. You want your article picked up by as many sites as possible.
- Rotation of bio boxes does not affect distribution
- Rotation of paragraphs does not affect distribution
- Changing a few keywords in the article body may reduce or increase your distribution
Changing the title of your articles can reduce distribution!
Lets go into this in more detail...
~ How articles are used for content sites ~
As well as writing about article publishing, my main business model is niche marketing. Creating niche focused websites to provide relevant information for people searching on a particular topic.
In this article I don't want to focus on what makes a good or bad niche website.
When creating niche websites, it is cost/time efficient to use various forms of automated or semi-automated tools to collect content to display that is relevant to your audience.
With articles and RSS feeds of articles, the primary way to determine whether content is unique is by way of title and author. If they are unique, it is likely that the content is unique.
It is prevalent to source your content from multiple locations, so you would collect articles, either manually or automatically from multiple locations. With RSS feeds you would subscribe to multiple RSS feeds.
If you are using good tools, duplicate content is excluded. You wouldn't want to post 10 different versions of the same article on your website.
~ Rotating Titles Defeats the Duplicate Checking ~
Yesterday I was collecting articles based on Search Engine Optimization for one of my sites. Using one of my semi-automatic tools, I gathered together over 950 supposedly unique articles from multiple sources.
These I intend to publish, 3 - 4 articles per day, over the next 8 months.
But I hit a problem.
When I sorted the articles by keyword density, I noticed that there were a fair number of articles, published by the same authors, that had different titles. Sometimes it was just the insertion of a number, at other times just a change of a single keyword.
Duplicate content!
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with f
Many professionals and managers are so involved in day-to-day crises and fighting fires that they forget about a key leadership characteristic: self-management. Effective leaders are first of all effective in managing themselves – their time, their focus, their emotions and their careers. It’s too late to figure out what’s next for you once your company has merged, had lay offs, changed strategy or whatever. Here are the biggest mistakes leaders make in their careers.Burning bridges along the way. Each profession may seem big – but, as you move up in your career, you come to realize how ‘small’ each really is. Something you said or done may comes back to haunt you.Not having big enough goals. A key career stopper is setting your goals too low or not being willing to put in the time it takes to reach goals. Believing “I could never do
In this article I don't want to focus on what makes a good or bad niche website.
When creating niche websites, it is cost/time efficient to use various forms of automated or semi-automated tools to collect content to display that is relevant to your audience.
With articles and RSS feeds of articles, the primary way to determine whether content is unique is by way of title and author. If they are unique, it is likely that the content is unique.
It is prevalent to source your content from multiple locations, so you would collect articles, either manually or automatically from multiple locations. With RSS feeds you would subscribe to multiple RSS feeds.
If you are using good tools, duplicate content is excluded. You wouldn't want to post 10 different versions of the same article on your website.
~ Rotating Titles Defeats the Duplicate Checking ~
Yesterday I was collecting articles based on Search Engine Optimization for one of my sites. Using one of my semi-automatic tools, I gathered together over 950 supposedly unique articles from multiple sources.
These I intend to publish, 3 - 4 articles per day, over the next 8 months.
But I hit a problem.
When I sorted the articles by keyword density, I noticed that there were a fair number of articles, published by the same authors, that had different titles. Sometimes it was just the insertion of a number, at other times just a change of a single keyword.
Duplicate content!
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with f
There is really no wrong way for you to clean a home. But as with any business, time in your cleaning business is valuable. The more cleaning jobs you can fit into a day, the more potential profit you earn. If you can complete the basics faster, then you have more time to offer specialized services or to move on to cleaning the next home.When you start cleaning it is important to not track dirt into rooms that you have already cleaned. It is most productive to start in rooms that are not centrally located - usually the bedrooms and bathrooms and then work your way through the rest of the house. Clean the high traffic areas, including the kitchen, last.Following are some general tips to save time while cleaning:* Make sure that you have the supplies you need close at hand. An easy way to do this is to carry all your supplies in a caddy. If you use concentr
If you are using good tools, duplicate content is excluded. You wouldn't want to post 10 different versions of the same article on your website.
~ Rotating Titles Defeats the Duplicate Checking ~
Yesterday I was collecting articles based on Search Engine Optimization for one of my sites. Using one of my semi-automatic tools, I gathered together over 950 supposedly unique articles from multiple sources.
These I intend to publish, 3 - 4 articles per day, over the next 8 months.
But I hit a problem.
When I sorted the articles by keyword density, I noticed that there were a fair number of articles, published by the same authors, that had different titles. Sometimes it was just the insertion of a number, at other times just a change of a single keyword.
Duplicate content!
With 950 articles to prepare, I wasn't going to go through them one by one comparing if it actually was duplicate content or not. I took the simple option. For each author I noticed articles that were the same keyword density, and similar length, I JUST DELETED ALL THE ARTICLES. The author will not get published on my site. For many of them that was 10 articles.
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with f
It seems almost ludicrous that this is a topic that many of us should consider in privately held companies.When I suggest there may be a need for a “Code of Conduct” I am not talking about a need based on employee behavior, I am talking about the need based on family behavior. The family business is a cornerstone of the US economy. It’s the American way, free enterprise and all that gooey stuff we read about. And, it’s true.Family owned/privately held organizations, both small and large, with succession issues, family preparation and second and third generation leadership issues often have several family members that hold management positions within the company. Often time’s interaction between family members can create problems for the business. In some extreme cases employees may actually begin to takes sides on a variety of issues based on the particular
I ended up with a total of approximately 800 articles suitable for publishing, and some authors would not be included.
It cost me more than 1 hour additional time to sort through and remove the duplicates. I could probably buy that many private label rights articles with no worry about duplicates in the collection, for the same expense comparing time to $ cost. But then there would be no backlinks for the authors, and I could target the articles exactly as I want with full rights to modify them.
~ Growing Trend ~
The idea of rotating article titles is not currently widespread. I have noticed it on occasion in the past where it was obviously done for tracking purposes, just an insertion of a number, and it was easy to remove the duplicates.
If however the trend continues, it will become more difficult to identify individual unique articles, especially for RSS feeds.
~ Think about it ~
It is already almost as cost effective to buy articles with rights as use articles from article directories.
Do you want backlinks from your articles?
~ Spreading the backlinks ~
I currently like sourcing articles from multiple locations. Many smaller article directories who have intelligently included a link to their site at the bottom of article content gain a great deal of exposure from content sites redistributing their articles. The backlinks are invaluable. However, if these sites start to contain duplicate articles with different titles, I will simply be forced to collect articles from the largest article directories. So much for diversification... lets all encourage monopolies!
The same would be especially true for RSS feeds.
~ Automated Submission ~
Technology is now helping authors distribute their articles across the internet. The market for such tools is highly competitive, thus there is a race to implement improved features. One such feature now being implemented is the rotation of article titles. This is intended to help an author make every article published to article directories unique.
Whilst I commend the authors for their ingenuity in finding solutions, I am deeply concerned that this will initially reduce the use of articles submitted, and eventually discourage content site creators from sourcing articles from multiple locations, and opting to source only from the largest directories.
~ Think About Time ~
Writing 20 unique titles for articles will probably take as much time as writing a whole new article. Two articles in my opinion are certainly better to promote your business, both short term and long term, than one article with 20 different titles.
When it comes to monitoring the success of your article publishing efforts, one of the favorite techniques is to search for your article title, thus discovering which sites used your article, and allowing you to also determine how many of those same sites also include a backlink to your website.
~ Advice to Authors ~
Based on my experience both as an author and a creator of niche focused content sites, think very carefully before leaping on the bandwagon of the newest trend in article publishing. If you rotate your article titles, you are making life harder for content publishers, and your efforts might well backfire.
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