articles that have already been published on other websites because the search engines don’t look too kindly on duplicate content. Basically, what happens when Google (or one of the other major search engines) finds that an article has been published on multiple sites, it drops that article’s search engine ranking significantly. And, since the search engine doesn’t know which site published the article first, it penalizes both sites. That means that both the sites lose, and so does the author of the article. Instead of increasing readership by adding your articles to many sites, you may be shooting yourself in the foot by decreasing your article’s ranking in the search results overall.
If you’re trying to get your articles noticed, you should make sure to only publish each article once. Otherwise your article may stand to lose its search engine status (or potential for search engine status if it hasn’t been published yet).
If users find your articles by typing in the URL of the site that your article is published on and then navigating around, you don’t have to worry about where your article ranks in the search engines. However, this is rarely how individual articles are found; they’re typically found through search. Search engine results are always something you should consider if you’re publishing your work online. If you can rank well (especially on the first page), you’re bound to get a lot of traffic, which means a lot of eyes are seeing your article and, hopefully, a lot of users are clicking on your ads.
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