Simple.  Post on your own blog first.  Then wait a few days.  Then, ideally write a similar, but different article and link back to original.  Alternatively, and not as ideal, for part 2 copy your article and link back to original w/ a link near top that says: "originally posted at..." and link to original article on your blog.

No, it does not hurt your SEO. The "duplicate content penalty" is a myth, and I prove it every day in our SEO work. There are some things you want to do in order though- 1. always write your original content on your website first. 2. Wait until your post on your website is indexed by google, 3. then take your post and post it to your AR blog in the post's entirety. 4. Then in your post that you post to ActiveRain, you add a link to your content on your original post on your website. 

What google's algorithm will do is to choose which website it decides is the most authoritative for the content that you wrote and that site will have a higher ranking on the SERPS. 

It really does not matter which website shows up higher than the other. Who cares! It is still you and your contact info. Your blog on AR may just show up first because google sees AR as a much higher authority website than your own website. There is nothing wrong with this. 

What you will waste your time on is if you start "spinning" your post and put it on AR. That means you change a few sentences around, etc. That is a total waste of time because now Google's rank brain ( AI) is much smarter and can decipher that it is really the same post. Then you did that work for nothing because your AR blog post will still rank higher than your post on your website. 

We post dupicate content all the time in the order I stated here, and both the AR blog and our website will show up on page one with the same content. And the same content will also rank on page one for our blog on Realtytimes. So that is evidence that you won't be punished for duplicate content. 

This is just a very short version of SEO best practices, hope this helps, Katerina

Google allows 2 titles for one post.... I copy and paste to 6 different sites...... and I get Google juice..... usually, ActiveRain and MY website....

Debbie Gartner has good knowledge on this topic.

Debbie Gartner has given a great answer.

Now perhaps Anita Clark and Katerina Nestor & Katerina Gasset will opine... they are also experts on this topic.

What Debbie Gartner said.  I like to write an intro to the original article then create a link to the original article by it's title.  That will take the visitor to the site of the original post... Killing two birds with one stone, so to speak.  

Not really. Google knows how to ignore content when similar authority content already exisits. Changing a few words is looked at by google as " Near duplicate content" so doing that doesn't fool anyone or help anything.

Several ways.  I like to rewrite topics with very similar yet differently worded articles.  

You can also post on your site and post to ActiveRain with a backlink stating "content originally written for ______.com"

Post an attribution on one of the sites for the initial blog. Change the blog content around somewhat to make it look fresh.

Tammy Emineth just did a post on this maybe 2 weeks ago. She advises on SEO & answers your questions.

I will have to reseach and get back to you

Not true as long as you post it on your site first, then here with the line at the bottom of the page, "Originally posted @____________" (the direct link back to the same article on your website).

Think about it, we re-blog here all the time - if that 'rule' was true, we wouldn't be encouraged to re-blog!  

Have at it Erika Albert - just be sure to post that tag line when you later post it here!

Write different articles and you will never be penalized.

I post on my WP site first ... wait for Google to index the post ... then on AR with a note where it was first published. 

Thanks for your question. I'm parked and reading. I will bookmarm this as well.

I change it around to make it look new. 

I only post to AR!

As Bob Crane says, Debbie Gartner is quite the expert on this topic.

I love Nestor & Katerina Gasset's very detailed answer.  I did not know, and had heard the myth that duplicate content hurt not helped.  I wondered that with re-blogging here on AR too actually, but figured AR knew enough that it was an acceptable practice. Great question and answers. -Kasey

Debbie Gartner has a good answer in one school of thought.  There is another school of thought that says "If Google cared about duplicate content, the major portals wouldn't have a huge hit against them."

I don't worry about duplicate content.  I do post my listing blogs to my site first and wait a couple of days before hitting up my other sites, but that's because I want Google to see mine first and hopefully give me some good juice.  On my last time doing this, I owned 8 of the top 10 results (#2-9) for my listing's address.  Sadly, I've been hamstrung of late and can no longer keep my listings off of competitor sites, which really pisses me off!

Write for your visitors and customers

Bob Crane nailed this one!

Nope, that's old school, just wait 48 hours between posts and you are Google-good!

I'd say Debbie Gartner has the best answer.

I change the title and some of the wording so that the spiders don't see duplicate content.

Good question! I can't suggest anything other that the great answers below. Best to change the wording I think.

I defer to the SEO experts.

Change the blog content.

Some great answers and instructions here.  Bookmarked!

Cheers!

Debbie has it right, post on your personal site first.  I also add *originally posted at _______.

I heard the same, have to see what the others have to say.

I know the answer to this but refuse to do it because it's so time consuming. I need to get on the ball!

Others have answered.

I would trust Debbie Gartner for this one.

do it the right way and get more juice

Add/delete content. Change the appearance, font size, colors, punctuation, etc.

I'm not sure that it does.

Erika Albert - I am not much after SEO - and I do see an excellent answer from Debbie Gartner.

Great question.  I'm coming back to read more replies.  Looks like you have some good advice from experienced bloggers. 

Just don't post it on back to back days, wait a couple of days.

Your picture should offset any negatives...