Article Pages: Sharing own articles hurt your AS pages?

[uhwebs]

I've seen people that offer their articles for free to other sites for a link.

Is this a good or bad idea? Would it hurt my AS pages if I let others use them on their sites, provided they link back?

Or could I let them take the articles provided they keep my AS codes in there... or is that against the TOS?

[ann]

Then again they could simply write a few lines about it with a text link to where they are on your site...best of both worlds.

Ann

[Eltiti]

could I let them take the articles provided they keep my AS codes in there

Now that is something I wouldn't do, as I think it is against the AS TOS (I thought you can only put AS on pages you control).

[uhwebs]

Yeah I just realized that is bad, E...
was just thinking out loud :)

[jdvjdv]

Where does it say you can only put adsense on pages you control?

[birdstuff]

"Or could I let them take the articles provided they keep my AS codes in there... or is that against the TOS?"

Would you really want your AdSense code on a page (or site) over which have zero editorial control? I wouldn't.

[uhwebs]

Nope :)

But that brings up a point-- can someone view your source, and then steal your code, put it up on a spammy site and get you banned?