Duplicate Blog Posts

Mark, you ask a great question.  I have been guilty of this myself.  sometimes i think that one of my creations is super(passing) and I will post it to Active Rain as well hope this is not a no no.  but i do make changes in the version for Active rain

I was also wondering if this was allowed. I will watching the comments and learn as well.

Mark, I have done this on occasion, and too be honest, I don't know the answer.  I would be more than interested to hear what you find out!

There is something to be said about getting the most exposure and then there is something to be said about bloating the internet with the same post all over the place.

Like you guys, I'm guilty of double posting, especially if i've put a good deal of time an effort into the post. But why not post snippets of the good article/post on a dozen different sites, with a link back to your website with the full article for those who are interested in reading the entire article? Of course that means you need a website worth visiting and capable of lead capture.

Personally I think double posting entire articles is only best described as bloating the internet... similiar to how spam bloats your ibox... Now, who wants to be guilty of that?

I know the issue has been addressed to Google regarding search rankings and the works, however Google won't comment on how it is handling the problem. It would be safe to assume that any content posted on several sites would not be "unique" and therefore having that content on your website would make it "non-unique" content. As a result, your website would be seen as lacking unique and valuable content and the search engine rankings of your personal site would decrease... which would lead to less traffic and fewer leads.

But thats just my understanding.

Mark,

You might find this post helpful in deciding if "blog dumping" is a good idea. ;-)

Cheers! --bf

We just got out of a class with Perry Henderson in Austin and Perry says "double blog is bad" and your asking for the ranking engines to basically flag you as bad content and you risk getting dumped to the bottom of the ranking list. If you are going to post twice (we are in the same boat, AR blog and Wordpress) different title, different photo, and mix up the content. We like the comment above about doing just a snippet and provide link to the full blog article.