Article Syndication has its uses within SEO practice but as with all practices you need to be selective in order for it to work , considering search engines work by pulling the most relative and most trusted content (from the page with the highest PR generally speaking ) whilst syndication will give you a rise in brand recognition possibly and result in a few relative backlinks what will be the effect of syndicating every article you write ?
The articles will hit the search engine results , but not in reference to YOUR website , as YOURS wont be the most relative and trusted site
So if you are thinking of syndicating articles do NOT syndicate everything you write , be selective , keep the bulk of your content on your own site where it will in the longterm do the most good.
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