So, if you’ve been reading my blog and keeping up with my postings, you would probably know I’ve been blogging for about 2 years, but only in the last few months have a finally learned what the hell I’m supposed to be doing thanks to my five or six odd Gurus in making money online. Blogging is a long path, but rougher and longer for some and smoother and shorter for others. First you have to learn how to use the various blogging platforms such as Wordpress or Blogger and then you have to learn about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and then you have to learn all about keywords.
As I’d already mentioned, I have had to learn about the value of backlinks to my sites and how to get valuable backlinks and what they mean. A back link is kind of like a vote for the value of your site in Google. It helps Google evaluate your site when they rate your site with the Google Page Ranking system. My previous article mentioned how one of my new sites – at only two and a half months old had gained a page rank of two. Hey, I was over the moon about it and felt like I finally knew what I was doing. An update to this is that I have found two other subpages in my new site that have obtained a Page Rank of One and I was equally ecstatic about this too. I guess I must have learned something from my Gurus of Blogging. I’ve done all I’ve done by writing by myself all my articles, submitting articles to a few directories manually (how time consuming this is!) deep linking within my site for the convenience of my readers and also to validate my site for Google.
Yes, I’ve been submitting re-written articles to three directories by hand. I once tried a free automated program and hated it. It got me registered at all these unknown directories and then I received thousands of emails from the admin of these sites for confirmation. All of these sites began with the letter “A” and a lot of them looking like Adsense sites. I never used this program again. So, I’ve been re-writing my articles by hand and submitting them to Ezine, GoArticles and a new site I found called ArticlesBase. I like Ezine because Google loves it. I’m waiting for Google to show me some GoArticle love. However, I love most of all ArticlesBase because they allow up to three text anchor links in your actual article and I thought that was rather generous of them. So I’m waiting to see the results of this.
Okay, so I’ve submitted my re-written articles to the directories manually, but there’s something that makes me awfully angry. I found this site that had copied one of my articles word for word from my site without my permission. Now it’s fine and dandy if someone uses my articles that I have submitted to the article directories but when someone just steals an article from my site - that kinda pisses me off. I’m going to be writing to them soon, and letting them know they can have my articles from Ezine, etc., but if they are going to just copy my article, they are going to have to give me an anchor text link back to my site on my chosen keywords.
How did I find this article thief? Well, I discovered this site called CopyScape.com. All you have to do is put in the page with the http address and then it searches for copies of your pages on the World Wide Web. I’ve placed the CopyScape “DO NOT COPY” banner on the top right hand side of my other site now because I’m miffed. I know it probably won’t stop other thieves, but at least with this program you have placed a warning on your site and you can check who’s stealing your stuff. We all know how long it takes to write articles for our blog postings. I'm going to write that email now and I'll let you all know what happens.
That’s all she wrote, I’ve got so much more to write…. Veraz
P.S. Just a footnote, I've added the CopyScape DO NOT COPY banner to this blog so you can all see what I mean. Maybe you'd like to add that to your blog or site.
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