Read Bruce Hearder’s article titled “The Do’s and Don’t of Using Other People Articles on Your Site”.


Bruce Hearder’s article is reprinted here.

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The Do’s and Don’t of Using Other People Articles on Your Site

Just about every website owner on the Internet is currently looking for fresh relevant content for their website and one of the best sources of new content, apart from writing it yourself, is to use articles written by other authors.

There are plenty of free article directories on the web. These article directories have their articles already grouped together into logical categories and the better ones actually have an advanced search feature that lets you look only for articles that have a particular keyword in the title or in the author’s name or anywhere within the body of the article.

The main article directories that I use are:

www.EzineArticles.com
www.GoArticles.com
www.ArticleCity.com
www.99Articles.com
www.ContentDesk.com

Once you have found a list of articles, its well worthwhile reading the articles before you ‘slap’ them up on your site. This way you can check that the article is worth placing on your site and you can also check the formatting of the article.

On some of the article directories, they have embedded hard returns (carriage returns) into the article at about 60-70 characters from the left hand margin. This does not show up on the web page, but once you copy the article from the website and place it into your site, the formatting becomes ‘all wrong’.

So you will need to go through the article and remove all these ‘unwanted’ hard returns.

The ethics of using other peoples on your website is that:

You can change the formatting of the article (i.e. insert paragraph breaks, add bolding to headings etc), but you cannot change the words written in the article.

You cannot :
-Alter any of the written words at all.
-Remove or redirect links (unless expressly authorized by the author)
-Change the title
-Remove, edit or change in any way the ‘resource box’ at the bottom of the article.

Remember the author has given you full permission to display their work on your site to add value to your site. All they ask in return, is that you do not claim credit for the article and leave all their details intact (i.e. links, author’s names etc)

Its common sense.. do the right thing by the author and they will keep contributing valuable content for your site.
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Bruce Hearder owns and run http://www.WebSiteSecrets101.com
Learn the tricks professional web masters use on their sites.

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