I write a lot. I have probably close to, or over, 1500 articles and blog posts floating in cyber space. In fact, there may be 2000 or more. Some have my byline, others I've ghostwritten.
When you have that much content out there, you have to expect some of it will get hijacked, even though it's not ethical.
An article at Problogger, delves into this topic and gives 3 tips you can use to
Today's guest TIP post is courtesy of The Book Marketing Expert Newsletter:Content Protection with a Benefitby Susan GilbertEmbed Article has come up with a creative way to eliminate the negative side effects that arise from someone copying your content and pasting it onto their own blog. And with the recent launch of their WordPress Plugin, it's now even easier for WordPress users to integrate their free technology.
Let's start by painting a dirty picture that many authors of blogs have dealt with. You spend a great deal of time and energy researching, writing, editing, thinking, developing, rewriting, and finally publishing a quality post on your blog for your readers to enjoy. Turns out, they love it! They love it so much that a few of them copy your post or parts of it, and publish it on their own blog. That's very flattering; however, now your well-written post is out there multiple times, competing against itself in search traffic and earning you zero ad revenue on this 3rd party blog. Bummer, right? The link back they gave you is great, but if only there was another way you could allow the sharing of your content without dealing with these negative side effects.
Embed Article Technology is here to save you. It gives your readers an alternative solution to copying and pasting your content. After taking just a few minutes to integrate Embed Article, you'll notice something different that happens whenever you try to highlight and copy the content from one of your posts. The Embed Article Window springs open and offers a unique code snippet as a replacement to the text you just copied. This code snippet, when pasted into the HTML of another blog, will display the text they copied with a link back to your website, as well as an ad space that you can use to make some additional revenue. Best of all, Embed Article displays the copied text in such a way that it's invisible to search engines. Therefore, you no longer have to worry about your articles competing against themselves in search traffic just because someone decided to copy it and post it on their own blog.
Most bloggers don't take content from other blogs maliciously. They don't want to hurt your SEO or punish you for writing such a great article. They simply want to relay the well-written message to their own readers which is why most of them give you a link back. Embed Article makes it just as easy for them to take your content, but now makes it a more beneficial event for you than it was before. The link back will not only help your SEO, but also increase traffic to your website. The ad space can be used in a number of ways: display your ad network of choice to earn you revenue, or display a custom ad promoting your own blog to build awareness and drive more traffic. Embed Article will soon be releasing a new feature that lets you use this ad space to display and suggest other relevant articles from your blog via your RSS feed.
Hundreds of blogs are already using Embed Article WordPress Plugin, and even major publications like Kiplinger.com have integrated their technology. After all, it takes just minutes to integrate and is free to use, so why not? You can find more info at
http://www.embedarticle.com and download their WordPress Plugin here:
http://bit.ly/EmbedArticleWP.
Tip offered by Susan Gilbert, AME's Search Engine Marketing Expert and Web 2.0 company owner,
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