Reposting content.
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I have some good articles I wrote for article directories a couple of years ago. I took them down 6 months ago. I am hoping to repost them somewhere better if the content isn't listed on google and passes Copyscape. Would this be safe?
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I agree. 100%.
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Toby a neat trick some of us old school SEO dudes use is:
Place "example of sentence from article" into Google and if it is being cached anywhere then you have your answer NOT to post it.
Web therapist,
Chenzo
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Hi Toby,
I can't see any problem with that then.
In terms of the external links, just make sure they are not keyword heavy. It is much more beneficial if the link is not going to fall into the trap of over optimised.
Here are some examples for you:
- Brand name/Brand-keyword hybrid
- Partial and broad match
- Non-descriptive
- URLs
- Other (completely different from the targeted keyword)
-Andy
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Thanks Andy. The articles were mostly on ezinearticles, some on Articlesbase. It has never been spun and passed copyscape to begin with, I thought it might be worth doing to make sure no-one had scraped part of the article and reposted it somewhere. When you say 'external links from the article itself' what exactly are you referring to?
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If the content isn't indexed by Google, in theory there is no harm in reposting this, but just be careful to follow best practices with any external links from the article itself. Do you know if the site it was originally posted on was penalised? Was the article indexed originally?
One question... you mention Copyscape - has the article been spun at any point or a combination of information brought together from other sources? It might be worthwhile 'freshening' the article to ensure it is fully up to date.
-Andy
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