I recently read that some very sage bloggers are opening up blogger accounts because of the Google indexing opportunity. 

I currently write my blog on a self-hosted Wordpress site.  Is there anything that would prevent me from copying a blog post that I just wrote in Wordpress to Blogger or Tumblr or any other blog platform?

Social Media Examiner asks for 2 weeks before an author reprints elsewhere. SMA is a pretty good example to follow. The 2 weeks means that Google knows it is your article and when someone reprints it, they should be lower in the search results that the first place posted.

@amyhallbiz – do you mean to just copy and paste the entire post into G+ or does posting a link back to the original blog post work?

@deereinhardt  Links back are excellent! Google immediately goes and crawls those links. But original material on Google+ is also excellent. As Google gives it’s own assets more attention in the search engine.  I posted an original article on my G+ page about MailChimp and my incoming MailChimp leads rose considerably.

Hey Dee, some SEO expert suggests that duplicate content is not a big issue when it is off site (I mean sites other than your main blog) but it’s a biggy when you have duplicates in your own site.

So when you write a post wait for a few days for it to get indexed in google. Type: site:yourdomain.com to see if the post is on google.

Then you can post the same article elsewhere.

You get a backlink but now thin contents are losing it’s backlink power after the past google update. So you better look for social bookmarking sites like google+, facebook, twitter to distribute your link. And then people will come to your site to read the article.