Syndication Writers

Very rarely. But this proves little, because there aren't any circumstances under which I'd link to a sales page (or to a squeeze-page, now, since doing all my split-testing in several niches last year).

While I was split-testing squeeze pages against landing pages with an opt-in, I did occasionally get some articles syndicated with links to squeeze pages. It just depends how much they want the article, doesn't it?

My guess is that a few will.

But when people complain that others are stealing their content, i.e. re-publishing it without the resource-box, it's often because the resource-box links are to squeeze-pages or sales pages, in my opinion.

Most of your syndication should be through people with whom you're in correspondence, though, so you can ask them. These considerations are only really relevant to people syndicating your work directly from article directories, and clearly one wouldn't want to depend entirely on that.

I do think the benefits of any kind of article marketing are greatly reduced by linking directly to any sort of sales page, as this gives you no chance to build a list, nor to pre-sell effectively (other than in the article itself, which isn't enough, and doesn't fit well with syndication anyway). For me, there would be something a bit sad, really, about producing syndication-worthy articles, and getting so close to such a good and successful business-model, only to waste most of it by linking to a sales-page.

And don't forget to remain in control of all your links on other people's sites, by linking to something from which you can control the redirecting (e.g. use something like a .info domain-name, or some self-hosted hosted solution, so that you won't waste syndication if the product you're promoting isn't still available in a year's time!).