I recently sent an article to SearchEngineJournal.com for their Guest Poster Contest. I may be a bit bias, but I liked it and thought it was rather funny. Here is the post “14 Things You Didn’t Know About Real SEOs“. The cool thing about the SEJ Guest Poster Contest is that one of the factors that influences the selection of the winner is the amount of Social Buzz the post generates.

An interesting thing happened this morning relating to the Social Buzz around this article. Two different people submitted the article to Sphinn.com using two different URLs. This happened because SEJ changed the URL to a more SEO friendly one very shortly after publication. Both versions of the submission became very popular very quickly with each having 14 or more votes after the first 2 hours. If there had been only one version of the URL submitted the article would have went “Hot” within those first couple of hours.

One of the moderators at Sphinn corrected the issue by keeping the first submission and deleting the second. This meant that all of the votes and comments associated with the deleted version were lost. The loss could have an impact on the judging of the SEJ contest. Its unfortunate, but things like this happen.

I wanted to point this situation out as an example of how duplicate URLs to the same content can impact your marketing efforts in more ways than you might generally think about.

If you like the article BTW .. Give it a Sphinn, Stumble It, Mixx It or whatever. This is a contest and I can use all the help I can get. Here’s the post again in case you don’t want to scroll up … “14 Things You Didn’t Know About Real SEOs“

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