Google does not index every article in AC

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Google does not and will not index every article in Associated Content and other writing sites. Michy had a discussion with a representative from Google in a closed door meeting, and she quoted the exact words of Google employee: "Google looks at site map for pages, but can't index every page because some bad sites create millions of pages. It would choke google if every one was indexed. Sites with lots of pages, Google looks for signals of quality for the pages, usually in the form of inbound links from trusted places." This thread was in the forum of AC. Later on, Lyn Lomasi mentioned a few ways to provide back links to our articles in Associated Content: 1)Start a blog 2)start your own website 3)start a squidoo lens 4)submit to bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon 5)post on twitter 6)answer Yahoo answers with links to your articles as the info source (only when appropriate of course) 7)keep writing quality content and hope others notice and link back 8)submit your AC RSS feed to feed directories In this case, I figure posting the same article in other writing sites do not harm the searchability of the article. It is likely that the article posted in Helium is indexed, while the same one in AC does not.