Hi everyone
I write articles for directories in the hopes of getting backlinks, then the web sites using those articles quote them without including my web links and company / personal details ... thumbsdown
I complain to the relevant directories - who tell me to contact the webmasters of the offending sites and to tell them to include the links, etc or take down the articles ... thumbsdown
It's a time consuming business checking firstly that the links etc are in place, then contacting the sites that have failed to honour the conditions. Are there any quick and easy fixes please?
Ideally, I'd like to persuade the directories to act but failing that would much appreciate being told about any short cuts "authors" can take to achieve the same ends.
Yours hopefully, Linda
That's an interesting one Linda. I'm guessing you want some kind of automated tool, like a back link checker, but also has the contact details for the directory/partner site, so it auto emails them, and sends you a report. I wouldn't have thought (he says optimistically) that it would be that complicated to script, if such a beast doesn't exist. Maybe ask a designer coder if they can give you a quote, or put a request on something like freelancer.co.uk
Thanks Steve. Will try freelancer.co.uk and if anyone then comes up with a low cost, good tool will strongly and repeatedly suggest to the goarticles and ezinearticles management teams that they invest in it! OK I'm a cheapskate ... on the other hand, the ezine directories' offer to us author punters is that we'll get oodles of SEO value from published articles, so you might argue the directories are mis-selling if they don't take "reasonable steps" to prevent scraping. Linda CareersPartnershipUK
“OK I'm a cheapskate ... on the other hand, the ezine directories' offer to us author punters is that we'll get oodles of SEO value from published articles, so you might argue the directories are mis-selling if they don't take "reasonable steps" to prevent scraping.” Scraping is a curse we are all afflicted with, most of them are automated bots, and it's just to populate adsense pages. The latest google updates are supposed to get rid of a lot of this rubbish, plus (I'm sure SEO bods will correct me) as the originator of the published article, you will get any google juice, anything else will be duplicates. Is it worth implementing the google author tag (linking back to your google+ page) which will tell Google you are the bonefide owner (plus add your mug shot in the search results). |
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