Making The Most Of Original Content

When you create a great piece of content like a blog post, it might seem like a great idea to repost the content on other high authority websites to gain more referral traffic and sales. For example, posting your new blog post on different article directories, WordPress sites, or on Medium and link back to the original post. Posting the same article might seem like a good idea, but is it really?

Can I Rank with Duplicate Content? Will the results be positive and benefit the original post with a boost in rankings because of the backlinks?

Or will the results be negative and damage my SEO efforts because of copied or duplicate content?

Am I wasting my time and effort by doing this?

While it’s good to share your new blog post on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with a unique summary of your original article and images, it’s not a good idea to share the same post on any other website. In posting your material to a WordPress blog, or a guest post on another authoritative site like Medium or Blogger because of Google’s duplicate content penalty.

Google and Pandas Google’s Panda update effectively stopped duplicate content from ranking. Many sites were penalized, loss valuable traffic and visitors, and have had trouble recovering. It’s best to create that fantastic blog post and add it to your website, or you can add it to another high authority site like Tumblr, but to be safe, don’t post the exact same article in more than one location.

Rewrite It and Make It Exciting The best way to get those valuable backlinks, traffic, and sales is to rewrite your article for each platform you intend to post it on. Even with social media posts, give your post an exciting summary that makes people want to click and read it.

Google is the search engine to focus on for SEO, and it’s essential to look at search from a perspective of your targeted audience. They don’t want to read the same article over and over again, what they do want is quality original content they can use. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/edkqu0/shouldipostmycontentonmultiple_websites/.