About how they can make the best use of REW blogs, and whether they can simply take an existing article and change the first paragraph to "fool" Google.

I will not go into my full response, but here are a few excerpts from my answer.

First of all, you should never try to “fool” Google, they reward quality uniqueness and effort.

Next: No it is not appropriate to copy paste (Duplicate) content across multiple blogs especially if it is not your own. This is index spamming. Also, because every place you post is going to have different readership, you need to be writing uniquely to appeal to that readership.

One thing you will find about REW is that we have almost a zero spam policy, so it is very important that you are Blogging at REW for the right reasons (Namely to build your online reputation and communicate with potential customers) – Rankings and back links will come if you write quality content, but if you are only posting FOR rankings and back links, the quality of your posts suffers and you will likely get your account suspended.

Don't know if any potential REW Blog users will read this, but hopefully it is good advice (Heck maybe even for a few current users )

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