Ezine articles Questions

Sure he can do that but he needs to add the authors links in the article. He can not just copy the articles on his blog and post his own links.

Write your own articles. It is not that hard. If you build a business/blog using other peoples articles you are not going to get nearly the response that you would get if you are writing your own.

If you really want any long term success, you are going to want to put yourself in the leader position and do your own thing.

Im just sayin....

Jeff Mitchell

No.

At least, it's unlikely that there'd be any SEO benefit from doing this. Google says not, anyway. (But some people do think that's true only about 80%/85% of the time, and that there might still be some small benefits, overall). There are certainly no penalties for it, if you were thinking that.

Remember: it isn't duplicate content - it's syndicated content (that's what many of the world's leading news and sports websites live on, etc.) But even duplicate content isn't penalized anyway, as Google explains so openly and repeatedly on their WebMaster Central Blog.

No. That would actually be theft (it's still a "derivative work" under the law of copyright), as well as obviously breaching the article directory's TOS.

I hear you, I think, but I must say that doesn't particularly bother me, to be honest.

They're not "next to" them in any way that actually matters to me.

The way I look at it is that the only people who ever find the EZA copy of my articles are people searching inside Ezine Articles' database with their search function (in other words, publishers).

It's not as if my potential customers are able or likely to find those copies ... at least not until they've been syndicated from Ezine Articles (thankfully!), which is all they're there for anyway.

This is where those "Panda updates" effectively did us such a big favor, by making sure that those copies won't be found in Google's SERP's (as long as we always publish them ourselves and have them indexed on our own site before submitting them anywhere else). I don't mind them being found in EZA's SERP's by publishers looking for content, because those are all people who already know that there's a lot of crap there too, and they don't associate me with any of that. Customers don't search inside EZA.