What is your opinion on using other peoples articles on your website?

14 years ago

It's perfectly legal as long as you include the resource box. It's also a fine way to get some content, but you probably want to have at least some completely original and unique content.

Some folks recommend putting a comment of your own at the beginning of the non-original content, designed to get your reader NOT to leave your site by clicking the links in the resource box. So for example, you might say something like:

"Here's an interesting article I found about [topic] while browsing the web today. When you're done reading, be sure to come back here and click on this link to get your [free something or other]"

That way you get the benefit of the on topic content and hopefully you reduce the chance that the reader will leave your site via the resource box links.

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TimG

14 years ago

It is legal and many people actively use Ezinearticles.com articles to build their sites which is beneficial to the authors that submit articles to EZA as long as the resource box is included.

However, what many people fail to realize or know is that EZA does have restrictions in place for publishers of their content as outlined in their terms of service for publishers:

"Agree to limit the number of articles reprinted to no greater than taking 25 articles from our site per calendar year per unique domain that you own. In addition, for domain owners of many domains, you may not reprint more than 250 articles per year (10 sites x 25 articles reprinted per domain)."

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TimG

"Agree to limit the number of articles reprinted to no greater than taking 25 articles from our site per calendar year per unique domain that you own. In addition, for domain owners of many domains, you may not reprint more than 250 articles per year (10 sites x 25 articles reprinted per domain)."

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Tim

Fortunately EZA is not the only source of articles.

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TimG 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

Fortunately EZA is not the only source of articles.

Agreed - just wanted to point that out because it usually gets overlooked.

Ideally, its probably not a bad thing to have articles from a few different sources as part of your website content in order to enhance the site visitor's experience.

I'd recommend against building sites using only articles from directories but when you incorporate them into your existing content I think it offers a more natural look to both the web visitor and search engines.

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Lawrh

14 years ago

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No, but using other people's content on a website is a bad way to get content if you want your readers clicking on your links rather than the articles' authors' links. I wouldn't get content that way myself, but I'm very happy to provide it for others (after publishing it myself first, of course).[/QUOTE]

Article wrapping (your own content before and after the article) gives the reader opportunity to click your links. It also lets you add keywords and use them as anchortext links.

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MichaelJames

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

Article wrapping (your own content before and after the article) gives the reader opportunity to click your links. It also lets you add keywords and use them as anchortext links.

Yeah I saw Keyword Elite 2.0 lets you take articles and inject your own adsense in between the article. Im sure theres other tools that do this too.

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mistyone

14 years ago

Today, I have been tracking down articles that I have submitted to Ezine, Article Base etc and I have found them published on other webmasters sites, but what I didn't know and I am not sure if this is normal or not but the ArticlesBase resource box doesn't have a live click-able (not sure if that is a word or not

) link in it.

Is this how it should be as I have actually sent a couple of webmasters an email asking that they restore the links?

I also went to Articles Base to one of my articles to check it out and the links aren't live there either. The anchor text is there and in the view source it looks like this:
The <a >Smart For Life Cookie Diet</a> is one of the most celebrated diet solutions in the US. This <a >smart cookie diet</a> aims to help an individual get rid of the excess.....

I don't understand this. I thought we wrote articles to gain the link back to our sites. Your thoughts?

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TimG

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mistyone

Today, I have been tracking down articles that I have submitted to Ezine, Article Base etc and I have found them published on other webmasters sites, but what I didn't know and I am not sure if this is normal or not but the ArticlesBase resource box doesn't have a live click-able (not sure if that is a word or not

) link in it.

Is this how it should be as I have actually sent a couple of webmasters an email asking that they restore the links?

I also went to Articles Base to one of my articles to check it out and the links aren't live there either. The anchor text is there and in the view source it looks like this:
The <a >Smart For Life Cookie Diet</a> is one of the most celebrated diet solutions in the US. This <a >smart cookie diet</a> aims to help an individual get rid of the excess.....

I don't understand this. I thought we wrote articles to gain the link back to our sites. Your thoughts?

From your example it looks like either the html code was originally not added in or it was stripped away. the link should look something like this:

The <a href="http://www. lwebsitelinkhere.com">Smart For Life Cookie Diet</a>

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Tim

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TimG

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

No, but using other people's content on a website is a bad way to get content if you want your readers clicking on your links rather than the articles' authors' links. I wouldn't get content that way myself, but I'm very happy to provide it for others (after publishing it myself first, of course).

Depends on how you use it. As straight content for your website it would probably be a bad idea but if it is immersed within your own original content then you have the opportunity of directing your readers attention to your desired location/target.

Examples:

You add an introduction and/or summary
You have the EZA article below the fold with your own content above the fold
You utilize some banner ads above the EZA article along with your own commentary

Those are some quick examples that come to mind.

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Tim

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TimG

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Not for me, it doesn't: I don't want other people's commercially motivated links on my blogs/sites. Call me selfish, but the only clickable ways that I give people to leave the site are ways that can earn money for me, not for someone else.

... but clearly still not as much chance as I have of doing that if I don't have anyone else's links there at all.

Yes ma'am, those are excellent points and valid on all accounts but you are clearly an accomplished writer and online marketer where many people are not, especially when they first start out.

As a stepping stone using EZA content is not a bad thing. Once a marketer has started becoming more IM savvy they can then wean themselves off depending on content provided by others and work on developing their own content.

One other note, in some cases if you need a site up and running quickly then then using EZA content is again a viable option to initially get the site online. Once online you can then begin the transformation of remvoing the EZA content in order to add your own. Consider this the larval stage much like a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly -

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Tim

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mikemcmillan

14 years ago

Yeah, Tim--I'll bet that less than 10% of the people who use EZAs on their sites are aware of those restrictions.

Actually Michael, a lot of article authors actually shop for high profile blogs in their niche and pitch their articles (either published ones or new unpublished ones) to the bloggers. Getting a single article on a high profile blog in your niche can bring in massive clicks overnight.

A lot of those articles you see with massive traffic didn't get that traffic just by sitting there waiting for it to come by. For one thing, you can back-link your articles just like you would your sites. People also use Web2.0 sites to promote articles. It's like anything else, you can't just sit and hope people read your article--ya gotta go find them, put something in their face with a link to your article and pull them in.

Successful article marketing isn't a passive, set-it-and-forget-it game. If you watn traffic you've got to go find a highway trafficked by hungry buyers and detour them to your article.

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paulie888

14 years ago

It's perfectly fine, as long as you give credit to the author and do not try to pass it off as your own material.

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Andrew11

14 years ago

I am okay with it but when people post completely irrelevant articles and comments with their backlink I really don't have any tolerance for it you know. It's blatant spam

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