Article Distribution - Duplicate content or not?

[DmitryP]

Many SEO's disagree on this subject so I wanted to see what everyone thinks.

Producing an article and then distributing to multiple article directories. In the eyes of Google is this considered spam(duplicate content) or it is not? As I understand unique content is good SEO. However, I also understand that visibility of the content on multiple sites is very important.

What do youthink?

[Audiohype]

Steer clear of duplicate content.

If the article is a high quality one then in my opinion it doesn't belong in an article directory - it belongs on a blog or site with a solid readership who can then respond and promote it.

If you're creating lower quality articles for the sole purpose of article directory submission then I would still say one submit the one, there aren't many benefits from duplicating this content.