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Are you legally sllowed to do this?

by Internet Trillionaire
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I'm not sure if this is the correct place on the forum to ask this question, but I'll ask it here and see what happens.

I know you allowed to copy and paste articles from article directories like ezine articles and post it to you niche blog, as long as you don't edit the article and you include the author's bio box.

Are you allowed to link to your products or an affiliate offer below that article, or have an email subscription form in a side bar next to the article?
#legally #sllowed
  • Profile picture of the author Last Donut
    Copyright law is a tough one, you're generally aloud to copy and use articles but for educational purposes and not for profit unless stated otherwise.

    You'll have to check with the TOS of the site and the copyright laws for whatever country you're in on a small scale it doesn't bother people much, but if you're making serious coin from content created by other authors and giving them a fair share for being apart of the sales funnel you could get in some trouble possibly.

    Just make your own content, or go on fiverr and pay someone to do articles for you, save the hastle.

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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    Are you allowed to link to your products or an affiliate offer below that article, or have an email subscription form in a side bar next to the article?
    Of course. As long as you use the article according to the TOS, what else you do on your site is up to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert999
    Originally Posted by Internet Trillionaire View Post

    I'm not sure if this is the correct place on the forum to ask this question, but I'll ask it here and see what happens.

    I know you allowed to copy and paste articles from article directories like ezine articles and post it to you niche blog, as long as you don't edit the article and you include the author's bio box.

    Are you allowed to link to your products or an affiliate offer below that article, or have an email subscription form in a side bar next to the article?
    I think you can do that. But adding copied content will not generate any traffic to your website from search engines. Then why to waste time in this. Go ahead and create your own content.
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  • Profile picture of the author MsHeart
    Of course you can put your offers, links, signups, and what else on the same page and website. There would be no point in running a site and using Ezine articles if you couldn't use the site to earn some kind of revenue or do something useful with your site.
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    How about some FREE unique handwritten articles for your website, blog, SEO, guest posts, etc?

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    • Profile picture of the author wtatlas
      As others have said you are free to have your own content sharing the page with an article from ezine articles.

      Rather than just copying and pasting the articles, however, why not add value to your site by adding your own introduction to them? For example, say why you have reproduced a particular article, what do you agree with/disagree with. In short, add additional content of your own that adds to the value of the original article.

      Doing this will also make it easier and more natural to add a few paragraphs after the article where you can sum up and perhaps fit in a link to a product, either your own or one for which you are an affiliate.
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