explorador - 5:29 pm on May 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

This post relates with writing, copyright and adsense. Hope is the right place.

Build it... and they will come (to make copies of it?)

Ok I have some websites with original content and adsense working kinda good. I took the time to read, research and prepare a new website. It took me time and a lot of effort to combine what I have learned by myself and reading here from great posts.

The plan was:
1. Work hard and publish the site with original & unique content.
2. Get growing traffic
3. See the traffic turning into Adsense clicks and feel like my effort was worth doing it.

Instead this is what happens:
1. I worked hard & published the site
2. I got the traffic growing in less time that my other websites. I'm about to put Adsense on the site.
3. I get many emails telling me how great the website is and how unique, valuable and complete the content is... and they want a piece of it.

I didn't work this hard so people just ask me and then copy my work. I know some will use it without permission, others ask me for permission, thats fine. I'm dealing with this asking them to only use 1 or 2 paragraphs maximum and only one picture with a visible link to my site.

I aimed for the traffic and the Adsense clicks, but instead I get many mails asking for permission. I'm getting tired of answering this emails, my ideas are:

1. Make a template email with the guidelines to use my work properly
2. Always ask a link to the site without the "nofollow" attribute
3. Perhaps creating a widget so they can put on their websites to show pictures and text from my site (via Javascript so it won't hurt as dup content)

Any of you aimed for the traffic and clicks but instead got into a nightmare of emails?

I know I got to take it easy or people will just copy the content without me wining something from this. I see people just don't pay for this neither, so selling content is not an option for me (I also don't want to do it so).