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Originally Posted by warax  Hello...
Has anybody tried to use one of those free article sites? One submitted article (with the same links of course) has the chance to be published to a number of websites yet it is perfectly okay for the one who submitted (*and put his links) the article. However, for those who publish it, it's a different story since that's duplicate content. |
True. From what I've read Google looks at the whole page, including the surrounding template code. So what some publishers do to get around the duplicate content issue is to write their own introduction above the article and conclusion below the article. This in combination with their unique (hopefully) site template and the contents don't look so duplicate to Google. I can't really comment on the effectiveness of this technique because I don't publish articles from directories, but it's something to try for people who are worried about it.