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4. Free Reprint Articles

 

The Internet provides a wealth of free reprint articles. There are websites dedicated to providing free content for e-zine and website publishers.  Authors, mostly website owners themselves, write articles relating to their products or service and submits these to these free article-websites.  Webmasters simply pick which articles appeal to him and publishes it on his site.  The only requirement all these authors want is an attribution at the bottom of the article or what is commonly called a resource box.  Since the authors make the articles available for free, thay require that you do not change their resource box and the site links are active. Some authors require that you notify them where you will be publishing their article.

 

Here are some sites that provide free articles to webmasters:

 

www.articlecity.com

www.ezinearticles.com

www.isnare.com

www.findarticles.com

www.articlesfactory.com

 

Search the Net for yourself as there are probably hundreds of these sites. You will find, however that some articles are all over the Web. This is so because savvy webmasters submit their articles to all known article distributors. 

 

Note that you are not allowed to change the articles or the text box in any way.

 

5.  Use Private Label  Articles

 

In contrast to the free articles directory, private label articles are not free. You have to pay for them. PLRs as they are commonly called, are licenses that gives you the right to publish an article, edit if you wish, and even put your name as the author. Because you have brought the rights to the articles, you are not obligated to put another website's link.

 

Some PLR suppliers operate on a membership basis. Meaning, you pay a monthly fee and in return get a stream of articles on the areas that you choose. A typical PLR provider will provide you with around 250 articles a month, on 10 different topics for a monthly fee. The fee can be as low as $10 to over three hundred dollars. Most PLR sites show that they have limited memberships: meaning they can only accomodate a limited number of members so that the articles have a semblance of exclusivity.

 

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This saves you the time and trouble of writing original content and at the same time, save your site from being punished by the search engines for running duplicate content. (More on duplicate content below)  To know more about this article converter, click here.


 







Search Engines frown on duplicate content

 

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about duplicate content and that serach engines, notably, Google penalizes sites with duplicate content.

 

So what does duplicate content really mean?  To make sure I get it right, I will quote directly from Google:


"Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Most of the time when we see this, it's unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that generate both regular and stripped-down mobile-targeted pages, store items shown (and -- worse yet -- linked) via multiple distinct URLs, and so on. In some cases, content is duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or garner more traffic via popular or long-tail queries."


And why does Google frown on duplicate content?

 

"Our users typically want to see a diverse cross-section of unique content when they do searches. In contrast, they're understandably annoyed when they see substantially the same content within a set of search results."

 

What does Google do about it?


"During our crawling and when serving search results, we try hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has articles in "regular" and "printer" versions and neither set is blocked in robots.txt or via a noindex meta tag, we'll choose one version to list. In the rare cases in which we perceive that duplicate content may be shown with intent to manipulate our rankings and deceive our users, we'll also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved. However, we prefer to focus on filtering rather than ranking adjustments ... so in the vast majority of cases, the worst thing that'll befall webmasters is to see the "less desired" version of a page shown in our index."



To get the full skinny on what a webmaster should do to avoid being penalized for duplicate content, click here 

 

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