Doing a little pinging last night before hitting the sack, and checking on how Panda has affected some of my articles on EZA. Very interesting discoveries. In several instances, the "borrowed" article versions got top ranking over EZA...same article, name and resource box in tact. In other instances, the EZA version came up with a message: " We're sorry, the URL you have requested is not valid or has been moved." I had to put the title of the article in quotes in order to find it.  In one instance, a borrower took the title, there was no article, but a bunch of pictures of products (rugs), and nestled in the middle of them, was a picture of me. I clicked the image thinking I would be taken to the article, but no link. You've gotta have a sense of humor folks. That was funny.

Early on, before Panda,  I re-published a few of my EZA articles on my own site. I left them alone because I want my site visitors to get that information. No noindex. If I did a noindex, they wouldn't show up at all. So, when I searched those articles, they came up under my site, top of first page, but nothing under EZA until about the third page, if they showed up at all. Some were not there.

Is this what they mean by punishing directories? On the other hand, SA articles popped up fast in top positions. I think SA pings because I tried pinging and message read "Hey whoa cowboy, you've already pinged."

That's my research results for the day  folks. Happy Father's Day everybody!

NOTE: Don't re-publish any of your articles from a directory to your own site. Even though you are the author, Google will see it as duplicate content. I did it before Panda ruling, thinking I was being smart. I won't do it any more unless I do a noindex as was suggested by dataplextech. Going forward, I will publish the article on my site OR in the directory. Not both.