Can anyone tell me if there is a fine balance about building IBL's  with articles and the problem with duplicate content all over the web?

Is there any point to posting an article I wrote on my own site and then post elsewhere?  Wouldn't this in effect lower the value of that link?

Thanks

Michael

To start with duplicate content is more of a filter than a penalty. So don’t get to worried on that end. The only point YOU would need to worry about it is if you intend to use the same piece on your site. I tend to use a certain type of piece for the site and another for export/distribution/syndication.

If you intend to use it on your site as well, make sure you have it on the site and indexed BEFORE you export it elsewhere. You want full credit as the originator for the retrieval filter.

As far as the VALUE of a back link, it will depend on the site/page that the article resides on. I have an instance of an article that is a PR3 on one site and the same piece is a PR1 on another. So the relative value depends on the BL in question.

Value is dependant on the BL to the page and the parent domain of the page in question. Duplicate content is FILTERED out during retrieval – it can still have a value to you as a BL.The value is not based upon the uniqueness of the content

Is that what U R after?

That definitely clarifies things for me.  Thanks for the tip.