Thoughts on Marketing…

Have you ever been tempted to buy software that turns one article into many, so they can be distributed on article sites across the web without becoming duplicate content?

Be careful! If you do it, read every article before you submit it, and make necessary changes. Otherwise you could end up looking foolish.

You probably know that I write article for EzineArticles.com. I also have Google Alerts set so that I (sometimes) get notice when someone posts one of them. What I wish is that if someone takes an article and runs it through that software they would remove my name.

This rant is because of one of those posts I saw this morning. It was an old article entitled “In the business world, do nice guys finish last?”

When I followed the Google alert this morning to see who had posted it, I was once again shocked by finding an article that for the most part made no sense.

For instance, this sentence:

I read a great report about malpractice suits that said doctors who are nice don’t get sued.

Turned into this:

I read a report on abuse suits, said that doctors who are not nice to be mentioned.

And this sentence:

That’s where you get the word of mouth advertising that money can’t buy.

Turned into:

It is here that the word of mouth that the money buy.I ‘m sure you can get very nice, but now worry later “must be set.”

Huh??

When you take articles from a site like EzineArticles, you promise to use the article as it was written, and to include the author’s resource box. But more and more often now I’m finding articles that have been altered with the resource box left in place. As you can guess, it bothers me a lot to have my name attached to gibberish, but as far as I can see, there’s not much any of us can do about it.

Anyway… be careful. Don’t ask some software to do your work for you, even if it does mean that you can be posted on 100 article sites in the time it takes to post to just one. Filling your blog or your website with bad writing just to add content makes no sense whatsoever. And sending those articles out under your own name in order build SEO with  links back to your site isn’t smart either.

More content is good – but only if it’s good content.