“Heres an good article explaining about duplicate articles and content, and how search engines perceive it.
Duplicate Articles:
A 'duplicate article' is an article that is submitted to the same publisher twice. No publisher wants to receive duplicate articles. Publishers want authors to submit articles that are fresh...
Duplicate Content:
Duplicate content refers to an article being published on multiple pages on the internet. Usually the term 'duplicate content' is associated with how search engines perceive an article that is published on many sites.
There is some misunderstanding with how search engines regard duplicate content. Google does not punish a website or an author for having an article published on more than one site. With article marketing, the goal is to have your article republished on many sites, and the whole purpose of article directories is to provide free reprint articles to publishers.
Mythbusting: Article Submission Sites Do Not Want Duplicate Content”
Steve, very useful, been trying to promote our articles.