Is Submitting The Same Article To Multiple Websites a Good Practice?

I started CoreNetworkZ Tech Solutions as a custom Blogger Template Developing company. Many clients consulted me for SEO doubts, and one of the frequent questions was the effectiveness of submitting the same (or a little bit of alteration) article as a guest post to multiple blogs and article directories.

I advised them not to do it. I asked them to submit a unique article to each website.

Article submission was one of the most popular SEO strategies to create backlinks. Everybody used this method to improve the backlink profile.

However, with Google Ranking Algorithm updates like Panda updates, SEO experts are not so fond of this technique. The good days of getting valuable links from Article Directories are over. Many Webmasters even fear that the links from them may hurt as well.

This tutorial explains the risks of submitting the same post to multiple submission sites like EzineArticles, GoArticles, etc.

Remember the golden days when article directories accepted articles and gifted dofollow links? It was a win-win situation where Google spiders and the submission directory got new quality content for a backlink to our blog or website from relevant pages of a trusted domain.

It was a nice method to promote our websites both in terms of Search Rank position and traffic.

These days, they no longer exist. Google Panda punished domains having duplicate and low-quality content. It reduced the influence of Article Submission sites. Later, with Penguin, Google punished domains that acquired links in unnatural methods.

Many leading sites, like EzineArticles, stop providing dofollow links. Today, many of them ceased to exist.

Good articles may bring many visits to our websites by tempting users to click the resource links in the articles. Guest blog posting is still active, but many SEO experts consider it abused in Google's eyes.

Many bloggers asked my advice after the Google HCU update. Helpful Content Update (HCU) is all about the content quality and not about the backlinks.

So, I recommend you go for an authoritative website in your niche to submit a guest post or article.

But I repeat, submitting the same article in multiple Article Directories is not recommended. Each article or guest post must be original and unique.

Though article submission is a valid link-building method, some people are too lazy to create new content. So, they submit the same one in multiple submission directories to get backlinks to their websites. Will this help to improve the Search Rank of their website?

Submitting the same post many times will not improve the ranking. This method increases the number of duplicate content on the Internet, and Google hates it. Google is not going to give any importance to duplicate content. It may attract the Panda penalty for domains that publish duplicate content.

In the past, when Google spiders found multiple copies of your article from different sources, they labeled one source of your post as the original and marked others as duplicate content. However, they changed it and started giving a penalty for the submission site. In addition, Google devalues the links from those pages and blocks any PR flow to your website. So, you must not submit the same article in multiple article submission directories.