There is so much talk nowadays about Google duplicate content penalties that sometimes people forget just why they add content to pages.

This is especially poignant when people write articles as a way of generating traffic to other pages or websites.

Some people become over protective of their articles and only want them to appear on their own websites, forgetting that this may mean they only get read by a handful of people, and those people are probably existing visitors too.

Rather than being too protective and only having a very small audience why not post your articles to as many places as possible and save your own site for the truly unique quality articles?

Forget about all this talk about duplicate content can be damaging, so what if your article is read on someone else’s?

Providing it is a quality article and still links back to where you want it to, your better of having your article on 100 different websites being read 500 times rather than just being on your website and read 5 times!