It depends on what he considers "worth doing".

If he wants them because he wants to have material there for his visitors to read, there's nothing to stop him from posting them all on his site this afternoon, exactly as they are. That's "worth doing", perhaps?

But he probably won't get any SEO benefits to speak of, because now that he's so unwisely given away all the initial indexation-rights to an article directory (they must love him!) it will only be syndicated content when he re-publishes it, just as it would be for anyone else. There's no problem over doing that, of course, and no penalty for it, but also no real SEO benefits to speak of. Probably he should do it, rather than not do it, though? In the long run, he might benefit from it, anyway?

You can say that again!

By whom?

I suspect you mean "by Google", really, don't you? Why does everyone care so much what Google thinks?! Your client's primary purpose in having content on his website is surely not to attract traffic from Google?! At least, I hope not, because if it is, it's probably kind of "academic" what he does, really. :rolleyes:

If he's going to re-write them enough to make them "unique", wouldn't he be much better off just writing new ones, chalking the past down to "experience", and making a fresh start?

He can take all those articles and post them to his site without making any changes at all. EZA does not require content to be exclusive to them. In the future, it will be best if your client posts the articles on his site first before submitting them anywhere else.

Outmoded thinking maybe? :confused:

This is 2013 people, not 2003.

For starters, has your client reviewed their EZA panel to see how much traffic the articles are generating?

If nothing, then maybe it is worth deleting the EZA article and putting on the website.

If a lot, then maybe it is worth writing a related article for the website.

In other words, get data and facts so you have something to work from, besides guessing and speculation, before suggesting a course of action.

.

Of course not. Many articles, in some way, are rewrites if you look at this from a certain perspective. But I still wouldn't use ezine articles as basis for rewrites.

To be honest, your post is *somewhat* perplexing because you make it sound like there is a problem where in reality there is none.

Your client needs content, correct? So..where's the problem? I mean the answer is right there...if he needs content get a writer and let them create content for his site. UNLESS you think getting content today is something extremely difficult to do???

I dont understand one thing, why would you think about those 80 articles which were written before and by-mistakely used it first for ezine..

There is no harm in writing new articles now!

I had a little suggestion: he can convert those articles into some video , audio, pdf etc.. , in that way he can able to somehow convert them for better purpose!

Don't limit your thinking to just articles.

Why not hold a podcast and "discuss" the topic/theme/reasoning behind each article that was written, then transcribe it, and post it up on your own site as unique content. The same could be done with video.