MHes - 5:09 pm on May 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

>One guy emailed me and asked to place his articles with backlinks to his site

So are the articles already on a site? Are they indexed?

Maybe this 'original article guy' has produced a site that has flash, music, 30,000 home page links etc. and has given up trying to get into Google.... hence the request for someone else to publish them. Or maybe he is cunningly trying to get 30,000 links to his site.

Andreww may well have done his homework and reckons its worth the effort. If the articles are already indexed all over the web I would personally not bother to add them to my site. The duplicate content issue would deter me. However, if I could easily out rank the original site and the articles were nowhere else, I would do it.

Business is Business. It could be a very clever move by Andreww.