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Hey Liked8

1) Usually if your article with your name gets published first, it will get indexed first, and therefore the SE will treat that as the original

2) there are but IMO that's stuff is crap. Most respectable sites will pick up on it and not publish your articles (and probably ban you)

remember that it's not necessarily how many links you get, but the quality of those links

my advice would be to write a few very good quality articles yourself and submit them to relevant and important sites within your industry

if one of those places decides to publish your content that link will be worth a lot more (in both traffic and link value) then a link from a no name, unrelated article directory

1) SE's will give the weight to the first instance of the article it finds

2) SE's can also detect the mashed up articles

SE's don't punish for duplicate content, they just don't show the page in the SERPs for a keyword that is relevant to all the duplicated pages

First of all, any relevant content is good content.

Sorry, gotta disagree here. I've read the beginnings of some really crappy articles that might well have been relevant content. I'll never know. If it is poorly written (or it is just blabbing away with no particular new or helpful point) it won't get you many new visitors. If it indicated what the entire site is like, the best you get from that is the opportunity to see how quickly visitors leave. I don't think Guiness' Book of Records keeps "Quickest Visit to a Web Site" as a catagory, so even that isn't something worthwhile in any sense of the word.