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Does Anyone Actually Keep Your Links When They Republish Content?

by Jacob Martus
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Just wondering. I submit articles to Ezine and Buzzle with hopes of syndication. I usually get some good exposure this way but lately it seems like 8 out of 10 websites that syndicate my articles leave my links out. I'm not real worried about it, because it's pretty much out of my control.

Sure I could go after them and tell them to take it down and then if they refuse go to their host, but that's just distracting and pointless.

Just wondering if this is normal? I don't see what the big deal is! Just keep two links live! I guess it doesn't really matter as the sites that don't publish the links are always crappy spam sites anyway. Any legitimate site that republishes my articles always keep my links and they usually have some PR.

Just a bit annoying to see 8 websites running my article without the links. Hell, half of them even faked the time-stamp to make it look like I stole their work! Funny. No matter where you go in life, there are people who will take the easy way out. It's almost like, they are doing it out of spite. I mean, what is the real downfall in leaving two links on a page? Sucking away their precious PR that they don't even have? Hell, I'd appreciate a nofollow.

This is just a rant, and I'm sure it's been said 100 times before. Just wanted to get it off my chest.

Thanks!
#content #links #republish
  • Profile picture of the author AlphaWarrior
    FWIW, I add a sentence at the end of my articles saying that the article may be republished, but that the links must remain active. I am not worried about "nofollow". I just want active links.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
      Originally Posted by AlphaWarrior View Post

      FWIW, I add a sentence at the end of my articles saying that the article may be republished, but that the links must remain active. I am not worried about "nofollow". I just want active links.
      Yeah, I don't think that is going to stop them. They don't care, there's no kind of punishment for it, so besides spending a bunch of time trying to get them to follow the rules, I'd rather just keep writing more articles. Just annoying and almost confusing. It's not like leaving my links live would somehow hurt their feeder site or whatever they are using the site for.
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  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    I submitted an article to EZA on "parrot training" once and ended up getting around 80 backlinks from people publishing it which surprised me as it was not the best article.

    Getting into the most viewed category will get you lots of backlinks and the articles in most viewed category always get scraped a lot.

    On my autoblogs I keep the links intact but nofollow them so they dont effect the site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Wakunahum
      Some do and some don't.

      I wouldn't get too worried about it as there is not much that you can do if they don't. It's easier to just outrank them and even write another article in the time it would take to get one article without the resource box taken down.
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