Simply posting an article on your web page will not help it come up in the search engine result pages, especially if it’s a duplicate content. Search engines usually don’t approve content which appears on several web pages and locations. Such duplicate web content is also one possible reason why [...]

How many of you think following URLs are all the same?

http://www.example.com (TYPE 1)
http://example.com/(TYPE 2)
http://www.example.com/index.html (TYPE 3)

These URLs may point to the same webpage and show same content but technically they all are different. Search engine crawlers consider them as all different URLs which means they all will compete with each other for their positions in SERP. [...]