Question about Article Directories

[googlesuccess]

I'd like to start my own article directory, but before that I'd like to get one question answered which has been haunting me for many days.

Normally people will submit the same article to many article directories on the net. I myself had my articles published in over 30 directories at a time. So my questions are

1. Do article directories get penalized for duplicate content?

2. Most good article directories do not seem to be penalized. How the owners of article directories avoid being penalized?

[vistadivine.com]

Well its a debetal question many people will say it will get penalized and many would say no but I think it won't.

Akash

[Dotster]

1. of course they do
2. I think they don't do anything in this way

[webfinity]

Duplicate content is interesting. If one is the original and the others is a copy (legit or not) how does the SE know what top penalize.

[googlesuccess]

Yes, I have submitted duplicate articles to directories having PR of 4+, and I believe they get plenty of duplicate articles every day. But I have not seen their rank dropping down to zero.

[GrahamJames]

Originally Posted by webfinity

Duplicate content is interesting. If one is the original and the others is a copy (legit or not) how does the SE know what top penalize.

I have often wondered about this same thing.

[A.N.Onym]

You don't get penalized for duplicate content. There only is duplicate content filtering.

You get penalized for linking to sites using unethical practices or for practicing them, too.

To avoid being flagged as duplicate (even with republished articles), you may want to get more links from trusted websites and use as much unique content as possible (meta tags, other page blocks - news, related articles, recent articles, etc). This won't help with block analysis, of course, but it's a good start.

Here's a piece on Microsoft duplicate content filtering - it can be applied to other search engines as well.

First of all, you should consider the editorial quality of your articles.
Secondly, you may want to pick a topic of your directory, otherwise, you'll be just another article directory out there.

[googlesuccess]

Thanks Onym for the information and the article !

[oseymour]

I always try to change my articles even if it is a slight change every time I submit.

[TheBrain]

I believe that, apart of articles, search engines determine duplicate content based on another elements along with them.

If you create a directory and put an exact copy under different domain names, that is duplicated.

If you have different directories, in layout, resources and/or featured offered, plus the same articles, then is not duplicated content at all.

[solidghost]

How about those news sites?
They have duplicate content too.