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Can I copy articles from EZine?

by jkiley
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I need articles on my site, can I copy those from ezine (of course with the link to ezine), or can I just put the link to the ezine's article?
#articles #copy #ezine
  • Profile picture of the author D3javu
    yeah you can copy the articles but just to be careful you should add the source on the bottom somewhere
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    • Profile picture of the author Max Ramocsai
      Yes, you can but you must include the author's resource box. When viewing the article just click where it says "publish this article" or something similar to that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnny
    There are from Terms of Service For Publishers Who Wish To Reprint Any Content From EzineArticles.com

    If you wish to publish/reprint any article from our site in your ezine, website, blog, forum, RSS feed or print publication, you must:

    1b) Agree to include the FULL Resource box or SIG line at the end of the article

    1e) Agree to include the article source credit below each article reprinted with the link active:
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  • Profile picture of the author Lightlysalted
    providing that you publish the article as stipulated in the ezine's TOS then it's fine to post the article in full on your blog. The best site for high quality articles is ezinearticles.com
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  • Profile picture of the author josefnew
    Read the T & C on ezinearticles properly or copyright troubles will be at you door very soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author charlesburke
    Jkiley,

    Yes, as everyone points out, you can freely use articles from directories. Naturally, you want to include the author's resource box below each article.

    A few months back, Armand Morin, a well known marketer even suggested in one of his videos that you could make an ebook almost within minutes using exclusively articles from directories as the source material.

    And more recently, Chris Rempel on his blog gave a plan for setting up an entire website in 7 days using largely such articles. You can find that here: Rant: A Simple Formula for Nearly-Instant Results That Doesn't Cost $60,000...

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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by charlesburke View Post

      Yes, as everyone points out, you can freely use articles from directories. Naturally, you want to include the author's resource box below each article.

      A few months back, Armand Morin, a well known marketer even suggested in one of his videos that you could make an ebook almost within minutes using exclusively articles from directories as the source material.

      Yanik Silver seems to specialize in this type of ebook...

      I bought two of his ebooks and both were formatted with his title page, table of contents and opening chapter... The opening chapter was roughly ten pages of his outline of what was about to come...

      The remaining 150-250 pages were articles reprinted from other authors...
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeGriffith
    Yes, you can copy Ezine articles provided you
    1. Keep the links live
    2. Publish the resource box with author signature
    If you choose, you can also provide a link to an Ezine article.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hail-To-The-Redskins
      As long as you do as MikeGriffith, Johnny and Max Ramocsai there will be no problems for you. It is a good way to get visitors to your site even though it will not be your link at the bottom of each article.

      You may want to contact some of the authors of the articles you're looking to publish, let them know what you're doing, and see if you can strike up a little deal with them, such as a link back from their site or some other benefit perhaps?

      Just a thought,

      Simon
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  • Profile picture of the author John Blaisdale
    Of course you can as long as you respect the original author. Keep the links intact and you will be just fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author megaresp
    Originally Posted by ahcheng72 View Post

    is there a benefits to include ezine's article?
    can advise?
    There is no SEO benefit (from Google) to be had by including content that already exists somewhere else on the Internet.

    The site's existing visitors may find the site more useful if 'new' content shows up on a regular basis. For example, let's say I run a site about stamp collecting. Over time, I assemble 1,000 articles about stamp collecting from various article repositories all over the web. Without my site, these articles remain hard to track down.

    My site has become an extremely useful resource for anybody interested in stamp collecting, assuming I've indexed it well and have a good search tool. It would be very difficult to find all these articles any other way.
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  • Profile picture of the author mike_ccw
    It better not to.Their guidelines are very strict and If you violate any of the terms of service and/or any author copyright when reprinting articles from our site, you will be held liable for all attorney fees and statutory damages awarded upon a copyright infringement lawsuit that may be brought against you. Please read Section 504(c)(2) copyright.gov. You agree that any legal proceedings against you will occur in Brown County in the State of Wisconsin, USA.
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  • Profile picture of the author am7l
    I see a lot of copied articles from ezine on the internet but i don't think you should build your site based on copied content.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Article syndication is the original purpose behind sites like EzineArticles.com. They were originally conceived as a source for articles you could freely use on your website, in your newsletter, etc. as long as you followed the rules.

      Then some bright person figured out that backlinks from certain article directories carried some weight in trying to rank sites. More articles meant more links.

      Damn the quality and full speed ahead...

      You can still find some reasonable quality articles on the directories, but you have to wade through a lot more digital sewage than you used to.
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  • Profile picture of the author PaulSolid
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    you can copy but make sure you edit the article round if you dont want to add the author bio, or copy and paste but include the author bio.

    cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author commonjoe
    Yes, you can always copy it but do give the credits at last or give the link from where you've copied it else twist it in such a way that even copyscape can't catch it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author vstar00
    copy the whole article with the resource box
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  • Profile picture of the author bryllescot
    Definitely! Yes you can do so, provided that you don't go beyond the terms and conditions on which ezine has set up.
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    • Profile picture of the author theimdude
      Amazing how +- 30 people answer the OP one of the other with the same answer
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by theimdude View Post

        Amazing how +- 30 people answer the OP one of the other with the same answer
        To be honest, I was kind of thinking exactly the opposite: the thread asks "Can I copy articles from EZA?", and given that the purpose and reason for the existence of EZA is for people to copy articles from it, because that's what an article directory is, it's quite surprising to me that there were so many different answers ranging from a straight "no" or two(!!) all the way to various degrees of "yes"!

        The thing that sometimes surprises me, in this regard, is that because some people refer to EZA as "Ezine", many people have come to assume that it actually is "an ezine" (and some have even come to assume, further and even more mistakenly, that an "ezine" and an "article directory" are the same thing) rather than appreciating that it's called "Ezine Articles" because it started as a content depository of articles for ezines (and is now, of course, also a depository of content for websites).
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        • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          To be honest, I was kind of thinking exactly the opposite: the thread asks "Can I copy articles from EZA?", and given that the purpose and reason for the existence of EZA is for people to copy articles from it, because that's what an article directory is, it's quite surprising to me that there were so many different answers ranging from a straight "no" or two(!!) all the way to various degrees of "yes"!

          The thing that sometimes surprises me, in this regard, is that because some people refer to EZA as "Ezine", many people have come to assume that it actually is "an ezine" (and some have even come to assume, further and even more mistakenly, that an "ezine" and an "article directory" are the same thing) rather than appreciating that it's called "Ezine Articles" because it started as a content depository of articles for ezines (and is now, of course, also a depository of content for websites).
          You go girl ... made me laugh out loud.

          Going to grab a cup of English Joe!

          John
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  • Profile picture of the author Randy Daugherty
    Better to rewrite the ezine articles you choose to put on your personal site...to be more safe...
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    • Profile picture of the author theimdude
      Originally Posted by Randy Daugherty View Post

      Better to rewrite the ezine articles you choose to put on your personal site...to be more safe...
      Sure why not - or even beter copy the exact article but leave the resource box out and add your own
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Alexa, Tina, thanks for telling it like it is.

        I really don't know how all this doody ended up floating in the pool, but some of it is patently ridiculous.

        I just finished posting a rebuttal to a person who asserted that it was better to submit articles manually, because search engines would only accept manual submissions.

        Once the article is in the database, even the directory owner couldn't tell you how it was submitted. Most automated submitters are form-fillers with a few bells and whistles, anyway.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
          I really don't know how all this doody ended up floating in the pool, but some of it is patently ridiculous.
          Someone either needs to turn the filter on or flush it - not sure which.

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        • Profile picture of the author BloggerHigh
          Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

          I just finished posting a rebuttal to a person who asserted that it was better to submit articles manually, because search engines would only accept manual submissions.
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          Don't be too harsh on newbies. How are they to know what goes on behind the scenes? Frankly, people using chrome, the Google toolbars etc, who knows how much info they are accumulating?
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          • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
            Originally Posted by BloggerHigh View Post

            Don't be too harsh on newbies. How are they to know what goes on behind the scenes? Frankly, people using chrome, the Google toolbars etc, who knows how much info they are accumulating?
            It has nothing to do with being harsh on newbies. In fact, John didn't say that it was a newbie, did he?

            It doesn't matter whether you are a newbie or an experienced marketer - don't post something as fact if you don't know what the heck you're talking about.

            If someone is simply stating what they've heard then they should say that.

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            • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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              Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises View Post

              don't post something as fact if you don't know what the heck you're talking about.
              ^^^ This.

              Nobody forces anyone to post in threads "asking for advice".

              Knowing that something is true (for the purpose of advising others accordingly) is very, very different indeed from having seen 30 other people say it here and/or in other forums. This is precisely how the "urban myths of internet marketing" become myths.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Randy Daugherty View Post

      Better to rewrite the ezine articles you choose to put on your personal site...to be more safe...
      Safe from what?! :confused:

      They're there for you to copy. That's what an article directory is. The one thing you're NOT allowed to do is to change them. :rolleyes:

      Originally Posted by logoonlinepros View Post

      you need to get permission of both parties who write article and submit on ezine.
      I just can't believe how much nonsense there is, in even a simple thread like this. Sadly, people who don't know what an article directory is and why it exists are posting their beliefs, apparently without a care in the world, apparently with no awareness that they don't know what they're talking about and are unsurprisingly, therefore, misinforming others.

      I give in.
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      • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Safe from what?! :confused:

        They're there for you to copy. That's what an article directory is. The one thing you're NOT allowed to do is to change them. :rolleyes:



        I just can't believe how much nonsense there is, in even a simple thread like this. Sadly, people who don't know what an article directory is and why it exists are posting their beliefs, apparently without a care in the world, apparently with no awareness that they don't know what they're talking about and are unsurprisingly, therefore, misinforming others.

        I give in.
        LOL!

        Stay strong, Alexa.

        Though this gives rise to the question of "how the hell do people form these beliefs to begin with?".

        I mean, if you read the policies of say EZA... unless you struggle to understand English, I wouldn't say there's any room for misinterpreting them - they're pretty clear.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by DireStraits View Post

          LOL!

          Stay strong, Alexa.
          Sorry, I was just having a little exasperated whinge, there.

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          • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
            Originally Posted by peepee View Post

            you can copy but make sure you edit the article round if you dont want to add the author bio, or copy and paste but include the author bio.
            Originally Posted by Randy Daugherty View Post

            Better to rewrite the ezine articles you choose to put on your personal site...to be more safe...
            Originally Posted by logoonlinepros View Post

            you need to get permission of both parties who write article and submit on ezine.
            For more info read privacy policy of enzine article.
            But its not easy to content or article from sites.
            Wow, people. Try to refrain from answering a thread if you have no freaking clue what you are talking about, please.

            To the OP, yes, of course you may republish articles from EZA or other directories. That is their purpose. However, follow the rules and leave the resource box/author bio intact with LIVE links as the directores tell you. You do NOT have to link back to EZA or any other directory, that I'm aware of (be sure to read the TOS before using, just in case).

            If you want to make the page more unique without having to do a ton of extra work, there is absolutely nothing wrong with adding an introductory paragraph of your own or a paragraph after the article giving your opinion on it. Or both. The you get a page that might actually benefit your site with SEO while still giving your readers useful content.

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        • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
          Originally Posted by DireStraits View Post

          LOL!

          Stay strong, Alexa.

          Though this gives rise to the question of "how the hell do people form these beliefs to begin with?".

          I mean, if you read the policies of say EZA... unless you struggle to understand English, I wouldn't say there's any room for misinterpreting them - they're pretty clear.
          That's the problem. They don't... so they don't know yet they still want to "contribute" by providing Warriors with misinformation.

          Johnny even posted a link back to EZA's TOS which describes what you can do and several people posted after that post with misinformation.
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          • Profile picture of the author Kay King
            Amazing the number of posts lately give answers without any knowledge of the subject at all.

            For crying out loud - at least read the terms and conditions yourself before interpreting them!!!

            As for "no SEO benefits" - which do you think google will like more....

            1. a 100 page site with only unique articles you have written

            2. a 500 page site with 100 pages of unique content and 400 closely related and information syndicated articles?

            Think about it - SEO isn't just about doing little tricks to get search engine attention - it's about building sites that attract attention and content is how you do that.

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  • Profile picture of the author tacoverhoef
    Seems Alexa knows what she is talking about. All the others out there seem to be in some sort of contradiction. But what do I know about articles? Good to read that somebody does know.
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    You are NOT allowed to 'edit' the article... BlueFart
    You are NOT allowed to leave off or change to bio box in any way... BlueFart
    You want to make an article about the same subject? Research it your self.

    People who give such answers are the reason this forum shows up in the BBB and other complaint sites saying 'The members there teach unethical marketing'. Giving answers, WRONG answers like that impinge Allen's reputation! Someday he will sicken of it and start banning people that get his forum, that he has worked hard on, into complaint sites. There are plenty of BlueFart forums if that is the kind of marketing you practice. No reason to spout crap here and hinder other people's reputations. It is getting so that being a member here is detrimental to ones own reputation! Let alone Allen's.

    Rant over.

    (Thanks Alexa & TMG)
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  • Profile picture of the author randypatok
    Yes you can copy but give the author the link juice they deserve to get when you syndicate there articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author danifae
    Some time ago I made a quick search to find out if some of my articles published on EzineArticles have been used by others.
    I found some of them, no one with a resorce box, one even with a different author name at the beginning of it. I tried to contact the webmasters but obviously I had no answer and, obviously, no comments were allowed on those sites. I was so upset I stopped writing articles and I did not submit anything to EzineArticles for a long time....
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