If I write an article that contains a link back to my site, should I post in only one place or can I post it several times?

[dad7more]

If I write an article that contains a link back to my site, should I post in only one place or can I post it several times?

[dad7more]

To clarify, can I write 4-5 articles and post them in hundreds of places each with a link back or is the duplicate content going to cancel out any benefit?

Should each article only be posted once or is there a sweet number of postings that are acceptable like 5-6?

[Cornel_Ilea]

Buna (Hi) Cirpian,

You should  definitely post it only and only once.

Uniqueness became very important nowadays.

But to make it easier for you I can suggest something else: you can write 10 different 'bullet points' for a topic (consistent paragraphs for each bullet point), a few different introductions and closings.

When you have this randomly chose one introduction, one closing and only 5 bullet points.

This should get you a few unique articles on a specific topic.

Cornel

[MoosaHemani]

It have nothing to do with links but as a whole if you are going to create one piece of content and add that on several places what is going to happen as a whole? You are creating multiple new spots that contain same content.

Google crawls the web and when found 1 piece of content on several different locations the worth of content go down and link didn’t really help you… in some cases link harm your overall reputation.

It is always a best practice to add 1 article on one place only in order to maintain the value of the content. As far as the article directories in specific are concern I would personally recommend you not to spend too much time on this as it contain a very little link value and instead focus on Guest blogging that contain huge return on investment.

[dad7more]

Mersi Cornel,

Very good suggestions. Will definitely give it a try.

[dad7more]

Makes a lot of sense. Thank you.