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G'day cipher.

Work out what you're trying to accomplish with your article.

Choose one use for your article and use it in this way. That's the way to get the most value out of it. Trying to get multiple mileage out of your article will cause a loss in value. You'll have that much duplicate content of your article that the SEs won't want to know about it.

Your options seem to be:
1)  Put it on your site.
2)  Distribute it through a press release distribution service, if it's a press release.
3)  Distribute it through an article distribution service, if it's an article.
4)  Submit it to an appropriate website for reproduction. If it was a webmaster article you could submit it to SiteReference.
5)  Send it to an appropriate print media such as an on topic magazine.

I think you'll be waiting a while for a reply from the newspapers regarding your request for help. They're into news, not help.

Regards,
Laurie.

matte wrote:

put a copyright notice on it - and ask that if people would like to use its contents to contact you first.

This is good advice, and I go one step further by giving people permission to use an article (without needing to contact me first) providing they keep the article, links and authors bio attached.

If the article is valuable and well written , most people will do the right thing and appreciate that you are giving them permission without any hassle of waiting to hear back after they've made contact.

There is no point getting too caught up in tying to protect an article, just keep writing good ones and people will seek you out as an expert in your field. Focus on that aspect. But, also take Matt's other advice by doing...

matte wrote:

a search on a string of text and see if it is out there and if so ask people to at least linkback to you if they have not done so already.

Making people be accountable is an important aspect and doing it in a nice way like this will gain you added respect.

All the best Cipher, and I supect there will be quite a few other people out there who would like to have asked this question.

Elizabeth

Okay, after seeing all the replies I think I should post it at my site and add the authors biography and link requests along with it...
I'll also put requests with news papers...

anything else that I should do...?
I'll be uploading the site in a few minutes and i'll be posting link here too. I would love  to have suggestions.

In the USA you have copyright as soon as you write it,

Same in Australia - any works are automatically protected - words art, film....

I will be the first to say that your article is very... nice to know? One thing i would look at though is your punctuation and layout, you dont want to reverberate the same point over and over again or get run to the ground by grammar critics.

Atwhatcost is full of article writing tips

Anywho, what i was going to say was that despite the feeling of self security that comes with a copyright - it is useless. Once your article hits the net it is essentially up for grabs by anyone who spots it... like a forum, anyone can copy the images and text.... morality, decency and what is legal really is irrelevant to someone who wants it. The best thing to do is make it good enough for people to respect it, most wont, some will... those few people that do should give you enough satisfaction and hopefully some link love at the same time, if you get caught up in who can and cant touch it you will just end up wasting valuable time worrying when it could be used to strengthen your creative side or get ruthlessy drunk with a loved one.

In a perfect world copyrighting is a good way to mark your territory, in the real world... i could copy your entire site with text - articles - links, paint it pink and make it my own by changing a few key sentences... i wouldnt do that but never be fooled into thinking people cant.

Peace and happiness doesnt come to people who worry about who is picking flowers out of their garden.

Last edited by Ryan_steyn (2007-10-01 07:02:07)

lol im glad you enjoyed it, the facts of life are often humorous wouldn't you say if its not copyrighting you are after but rather the knowledge that its yours it is best to publish it on your site first, the time stamp on the net wont lie, like books and what not once it is written and published it is yours forever unless someone can prove without doubt that they wrote it first, if someone copies it as their own on their site they will suffer the duplicate content penalty (penalty is the wrong word but im at a loss for the right one right now ) ... not you, as you put it online first. So really, no stress.

Article publishing in my knowledge is about either a: getting some useful info out to the world b: getting people to publish your article on their sites and linking it back to you so you can reap the benefits of incoming links c: both a and b.

you may find many articles that are quite pointless and poor in quality and usefulness... these are b: done in a hurry and for the pure purpose of link building, thats pretty much articles as i understand them. Some people are a few articles away from being spammers in my opinion.

All the tips above (previous posts by matte and laurie) are pretty much all the advice you will need if you want get into it to reap the benefits.

Hope that helped

Last edited by Ryan_steyn (2007-10-01 07:35:51)

cipher wrote:

Thank you Ryan,
I am waiting for your comments though...
http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/ … t-comment/

ryan steyn wrote:

I will be the first to say that your article is very... nice to know? tummenupp One thing i would look at though is your punctuation and layout, you dont want to reverberate the same point over and over again or get run to the ground by grammar critics.

Its positive, i reckon your article is a "feel good" article which is rare to say the least, not trying to sell anything or get anything back from it...its simply a revelation or dare i say - a realisation of the obvious.

Refreshing in my opinion.

elizabethrichardson wrote:

Just to clarify something for myself regarding copyright...

I am under the impression that the words that we post on a forum belong to the forum owner, or the forum owner has the right to use them as his own - is that correct?

Depends on what the forum rules and ToS are that you agreed to.....if, like my article site, it says that the copyright passing straight to me then that's what happens and people who don't like it don't write for me!

So is it like... we should read the whole program policies before joing the sites...
   it is strange people do read that at first...
You both own article sites, what do you do with those articles... except just increasing your PR's...
I was going to join your's today Elizabeth...    but clear me with the funda first..
he he...! lolz...
am joining it anyways...