When you figure this one out, please tell me. It is making my head swim.

There is alot of posts here about duplicate content,put that in your search bar at the top. Too much to say...

Basically, it's ok to post the same thing on your 3 blogs. Just don't get burned out. But, it's ok with Google. 

Lindsay.. Good question and I don't have a definitive answer. I have 2 blogs, one is my pt2 blog which is part of my website. Then of coarse I blog on A/R.

I usually blog the same info, and just change the title. I believe I heard on this blog that that was OK.

 I couldn't keep up if I had more blogs or had to write more stuff.

I will watch this carefully, as I am not sure If I am doing it right.

Thanks.

Hi Lindsay,  I'm fairly new to blogging myself but have found myself to be fairly active on AR since joining.  I read about WordPress and, being a technology addict of sorts, wanted to try it out so I've added a WordPress blog to some of my websites last weekend.  I have posted several articles in multiple places.

My personal view is that you should be free to repost your own original material on as many blogs as you wish.  I liken it to publishing AR or Reuters articles on many newspapers, websites, etc.  It is your information and you are trying to get as broad a readership as you can.

I've seen some discussion and disagreement amongst the gurus about whether reposting materials hurts or helps you with respect to SEO.  I guess I'll find out.

I repost to my different blogs however I spread out what I am reposting.  So it goes on AR first, then I dig out an older article from AR and post it to my blogs.  Eventually everything ends up on all three but over time.

Hi Lindsay, I'm thinking about keeping the content of my blogs focused on different readers.  ActiveRain lets me specify a post for the Localism beta site if the content is for the community like some of yours are.  However, I don't want to mix content for realtors with content for my neighborhood in one blog.  When my clients or neighbors view my ActiveRain blog, I prefer that they not have to sort through the content that is intended for Realtors.  So, I hope to have established two or more separate blogs for different audiences.  And I prefer to not duplicate the content across blogs.  If a viewer/reader sees a post at one site and then goes to another and sees the same post, he says "hey, I thought I saw this somewhere else."  I don't know if duplication helps my SEO positions, but that should be less of a concern than clogging up the internet with a lot of duplicate pages.  Your new venture into blogging is very successful.  Keep up the good work.

Sallie

I would love to have different information on all blogs. Maybe that should be one of my goals. Can I tell you how many blogs I have? Yahoo 360, wordpress, AR, livejournal maybe a few more. It gets overwelming and being new I am stretching it pulling for information. C'est la vie. I am sure the more I get in the field the more I will have to write about.

Cindy has a great idea, with rotating. Just post the same stuff at different times and maybe different people will hit it at different times. This means that you have to start out, I would think, with writing different information on each one and as you build a list of informative topics, start bouncing them around from blog to blog.

We def. need a google expert to tell us the rules and the power of seo when it comes to duplicate blogging.