Relation of The Article Marketing and Duplicate Content Argument

Relation of The Article Marketing and Duplicate Content Argument
i’ve written several articles on article marketing and duplicate content and blogged about the effects of mass article submission.I’ve partaken in several heated discussions at the Warrior Forum on the matter as well. I’ve even written an article marketing ebook about it.
I’ve done so much testing on the matter than my head spins just thinking about it. My ultimate determination is that mass article submission is no longer effective. I’ll still submit an article to article marketer every once in a while and test it against a similar article submitted to only the top few article directories. About 75% of the time, the articles that are not “mass submitted” drive more traffic than those that are mass submitted.
But, I just came across one of Andy’s articles on duplicate article content, which pretty much goes against what I’ve determined, and it’s one of the better arguments I’ve seen so far.
Referring to the #1 best selling book in the world, the bible, as an example, Andy explains why mass article submission shouldn’t be looked at as a negative thing, but more of a positive thing.
It is a very interesting article and Andy makes some very good points. In a perfect world, I think he would be 100% correct. My argument though, is the fact that the SE’s know what type of syndication tools we marketers have in our arsenal. They know that any joe schmoe can pay a few bucks and have their article, whether it’s quality or rubbish, distributed all over the web. My point is, although the bible is all over the place, in most cases it’s in these places by choice and not because someone paid a small fee to distribute it to everyone and their brother.
I believe that when services such as Article Marketer and Isnare first hit the market, mass article submission was extremely effect. Now that the SE’s know what’s going on, it isn’t nearly as effective, as they have tweaked their algorithms to prevent pretty much anyone from getting loads of visitors to their articles that may very well be trash.
Jack Humphrey also wrote a piece on his opinion of the duplicate article content matter, speaking of how Matt Cutts addresses the matter.
I’ve read many of Matt’s posts on the matter and I’ve seen a video or two from Vanessa Fox (formerly in charge of Google Webmaster Tools)
Google doesn’t give out any type of penalty for duplicate content. What they do is if they see the exact same page on the same website, they index one copy. If you don’t specify which one you prefer by restricting the one you don’t, their algorithm will choose.
So, mass article submission really isn’t “duplicate content” but that doesn’t mean it’s effective!!
This is just my opinion of course, but I believe that mass submission is looked at as a light form of spam. Most of your articles will get indexed but the links you obtain will be of low value and they will not rank as well as they would if they were to be submitted to only the top few article directories.

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