Comments on: Posting Blog Posts in Multiple Places – Good or Bad?

By: Is posting in multiple categories a bad thing? — NevilleHobson.com

Is posting in multiple categories a bad thing? — NevilleHobson.com — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:30:43 +0000

[...] or the other. The closest post I could find is one from March 2007 by Darren Rowse that addresses posting in multiple places rather than posting in multiple categories in the same [...]

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By: Mani

Mani — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:21:45 +0000

Isnt this more related to plagiarism? i dint see you mention it in the post :(

By: Rich Ord

Rich Ord — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:22:59 +0000

Darren,

I think what is interesting here is that you are making business decisions based on how you think Google reacts to them. They are only a search engine after all. In my opinion good PR outweighs SEO any day of the week.

Your partnership with WebProNews was not designed to drive traffic but did bring you significant notoriety at zero cost to you. After all, when our visitors clicked to read your articles they were still seeing your picture, reading your words and building your credibility! That my friend, is great PR.

My suggestion for bloggers is don’t make every decision based on whether you think it increases your Google Adsense dollars! Look for ways to expose your site as much as possible.

Of course, pay attention to SEO but play your marketing game in the real world too. Build relationships with other sites, republish some of your content, write original content for other high traffic sites, participate in forums and web communities and post comments in blogs and news sites.

A blogger should treat their site as a brand which means the more exposure the better!

If you would like to try it again Darren, let me know!

Sincerely,

Rich Ord
CEO, iEntry, In.c
Publisher of WebProNews
http://www.webpronews.com

By: Posting Blog Posts in Multiple Places - Good or Bad? by Blogging Pro

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:08:12 +0000

[...] A question many people have had is “can they post the same content on more than one blog?” Well, Darren Rowse finally takes a stab at answering that question and it comes down to the neither black or white answer of “maybe, sometimes”. He lists some reasons why cross posting can be helpful for a piece of news or content and why you shouldn’t post the same news on multiple blogs. [...]

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:41:31 +0000

Its called as Business.There is no point if you have high PR with low traffic.If you run a business you might give out a part of your product to be upgraded by others.Does’nt mean you lost your technology it just mean you just showed some more people what you are capable of.

You have to smartly think how to balance them.Don’t do it more do it wise.Thats the key.

Thanks for the topic!!!

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:41:50 +0000

On a few occasions I have posted articles written on one of my blogs on to another of my blogs but only if the content is appropriate for both. This works for me in gettting readers from one blog on to the others.

By: Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:28:15 +0000

I posted about 5 or 6 of my best blog posts that were more essay like and would continue to be relevant at Blogcritics.org back during my first year or so at ProHipHop. Their rank gave me a Google presence on some highly relevant search terms that I otherwise haven’t done so well on.

I did rewrite parts of the posts and some of them were combinations of posts so they weren’t all exact duplicates but I’ve also allowed other websites to reprint a handful of posts that caught their attention for one reason or another.

So I guess I’m voting for moderation. It’s good to distribute your presence but I mainly do that through offering an rss feed that has ads [via feedburner] or by occasional guest posts.

By: Fred Joiners

Fred Joiners — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:31:50 +0000

OOPS, sorry, I meant ” . . . seem to have the built in ability to ‘import’ all posts ‘from’ various other blogs.

By: Fred Joiners

Fred Joiners — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:27:51 +0000

Great topic. I have a new Blog alcoholselfhelpnews.wordpress.com and seem to have the built in ability to export all posts to various other blogs. The xtract from the dashboard says;

“If you have posts or comments in another system, WordPress can import those into this blog. To get started, choose a system to import from below:”

“LiveJournal Import posts from a LiveJournal XML export file
Movable Type and TypePad Import posts and comments from a Movable Type or Typepad blog
Blogger Import posts, comments, and users from a Blogger blog
WordPress Import posts, comments, custom fields, pages, and categories from a WordPress export file”

This is so expansive in quantity that I was assuming the practice is OK.

Whats the reality?

By: macgoo

macgoo — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:36:12 +0000

My blog is centred around the pictures I take. To promote my blog I also post most of my pics on 5 or 6 of the most popular related forums that I know of. Hence most of my posts are essentially repeated in several locations and users dont actually need to visit my site. Now obviously I would probably get more hits if I simply posted a link to my page but doing this is against the rules of many of these forums and not liked by many of their visitors and since my blog is only new I am more concered with generating a positive reputation than getting hits. As of now when I search google with relevant keywords for my site I will go past virtually all of my forum posts before getting to my site which I aren’t entirely happy about but while my site is young (almost 1 month old now) I will put up with it. I am hoping that this strategy will mean that my traffic will continue to grow slowly even during my slow periods and I will gain more regular visitors.

By: Matt Wardman

Matt Wardman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:17:58 +0000

It is possible get away with some duplicate content posting in my view, buit the more you do it, the higher the risk. Sorry: truism.

I’ve occasionally crossposted, but I would try to keep it to a very small subset of articles – less than 1 in 20. As for everything else, there is no such thing as a free lunch!

Similar problems can be caused by multiple urls pointing to the same blog – even http://www.domain.com/ and http://domain.com/ .

By: carl

carl — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:03:28 +0000

yea, I agree too… but is it ok to post the half of your post in an article directory and the full on your blog?

By: Scott Howard

Scott Howard — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:48:37 +0000

Darren, I totally agree with you. When I stopped using the aggregator feature for dipnoi my ranking on Technorati went down tremendously that same day and has continued to go down ever since. Evidently, Technorati looks down on duplicate content as well.

By: Quais Waseeq

Quais Waseeq — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:09:37 +0000

I think rewording parts of the article and adding more to it are prabably the best ways of avoiding Google troubles. you could simply change the examples mentioned in the article, or add an introduction/conclusion to it. you could also change the subheading, just reword them. Even that wouldn’t completely save you, so as Darren said, you gotta look at what is more important to you: more people reading your articles or getting better SE ranking, which in fact are interrelated. One affects the other.

By: Eliena Andrews

Eliena Andrews — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:57:45 +0000

Hello,
I think cross posting is good both for bloggers and the article itself. Doing so we can increase the strenght of the article on search engines, though we all know every thing has advantages/disadvantages. I vote cross posting as positive. Thanks

Best Regards,
Eliena Andrews

By: Bes Zain

Bes Zain — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:33:19 +0000

Good points. Cross posting helps promote content, yet it also thins down your efforts and capabilities.

Occasional posts on different sites can help, and so can the varying amount of information in each duplicate post.

Good case example, by the way. It shows that your goals [wanting SEO or anything else] can greatly dictate how you should treat duplicate content or cross posting.

By: www.dobizo.com

www.dobizo.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:36:55 +0000

I actually posted one of my articles on http://www.netscape.com and then realized netscape was number one for a phrase! and it placed me at number 2 and 3….now I’m back at number one where I deserve to be :)

By: Dave Starr - ROI Guy

Dave Starr - ROI Guy — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:54:16 +0000

You hit the nail on the head with one of your points here, Darren. One of the shortfalls (in my view) of Google is that they either currently don’t use the data and time of publication as a tie-breaker in the duplicate content race … or that use is actually too unreliable (servers can be in all different time zones, times of publication at the application level (such as WordPress) can be manipulated, and, I suppose if they correlated server time of publication into the picture there would be a huge boom in leased servers in Guam and Kiribati where the world’s day begins. Hmm … is that why your server is in New Zealand … nobody scoops Australia before you do? LoL.

Seriously I think the best “one technique fits all” advice is to allow re-posting of a limited number of articles, selected by the blogger, not the user, with an intro paragraph tacked on to the beginning of each one explaining where it was originally published and why it is coming out again now.