Free Articles? Is this true?

[naitsirhc26]

I was just wondering if you can really get free articles from an ezine article company. I have published some of these articles on my website because I thought it was okay. What do you have to do to publish them. I just gave the people credit and I put a link to there website. Will I get in trouble? I don't believe I will. I would greatly apreciate help. I couldn't find I place to post this so I posted it here. Thanks.

[naitsirhc26]

If anybody could help that would be great

[Rosalind]

Yes, it is true, and you are doing it correctly by giving credit to the writers and linking back. This is really all they want from you.

People write articles and post them to article syndication websites in order to gain a lot of backlinks quickly.

But you're smart enough to look for a catch in this apparent free lunch, and there is one. The same article will probably be copied on multiple websites, but the search engines only want to index one instance of the same page. Therefore many of these articles will be subject to a duplicate content penalty, and won't give you any benefit in the search engines.

Another drawback is one of appearances. If your site looks to be nothing but a collection of other people's content, people will link to the source (ie, those other websites), rather than to your site. And your visitors will leave to check out those other sites as well.

[naitsirhc26]

Thank you, that was really helpful.

[slck]

So if I syndicate other site's articles on my site, for example to give the user the ability to find all related articles in one place, this will not be ok and my site will be irrelevant because of the duplicate content?