Someone keeps copying my content

On the contrary, Jodie: if it's "very clearly the same article with certain words changed", then a standard DMCA notice sent to the host has about a 99% chance of resolving the situation (and the additional merit of taking up no more than half a minute of your time in doing so ).

Just the standard, time-honoured article marketing techniques. They've become standard and time-honoured because they work. Always publish your article on your own site first and wait until it's been indexed there before submitting it anywhere else. In the long run, you win.

Regarding some of the misguided advice above, there's comparatively little point in submitting work to an article directory that hasn't initially been indexed on your own site. Whatever model of article marketing you use, this is absolutely fundamental to the process. Otherwise, in the long run, you lose.

In this long thread a large number of professional, successful, experienced article marketers explain at length and in detail all their shared reasons for always doing it this way.

If anyone seriously imagines that it makes any kind of sense to keep the best articles for themselves and "write lower quality ones for article directories", as suggested above , I respectfully refer them to posts #2 and #6 of this thread, for a little enlightenment about what article marketing is and how article directories work.

That's what it's there for. That's what an "article directory" IS: that's why it exists!

Not quite so much, to anyone who actually understands what an article directory is: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

You too, Danny?! I thought you knew better than this?! The fact that "Google slapped them" makes it more beneficial to submit there, not less beneficial. Now article marketers can submit there with no risk of losing their customer traffic that way.

That's why all the professional article marketers here have, for so many months, in so many threads, been singing the praises of the various "Panda updates" which have made life so very much easier for us.

Of course it's not a great way to build backlinks. It's a completely cr@p and useless way to build backlinks and has been for years. But that's not what EZA is there for anyway - so it's not much of a criticism of it, is it?! Nobody's using article directories for their own backlinks - they're a stepping stone to targeted traffic and far better backlinks.

You, too, will be helped by reading this little thread. No rudeness intended, but at the moment you're seriously missing the point of what an article directory is.

Do so many people who post here offering other people advice about article marketing really not know what an article directory is?!

Of course it's 'legal' to take articles from Ezine Articles - that's why they were created in the first place :rolleyes:. Article directories (such as Ezine Articles), are article depositories where writers place their articles in the hope that they will be syndicated by niche focused webmasters.

What is not legal, however, is taking said articles, stripping of their author resource boxes, and then publishing them.

Nooo... actually, that's the second (or in many article marketer's experience, third place) where you post your articles. The first place should always be on your own blog/website.

Indeed. Annoyingly, I've run out of "thanks" for the day, apparently ... and even more annoyingly I can't find my nice "pizza smiley" which I was going to drop into a reply. (Have got a good pancake-tossing one, but that'll have to wait until next Shrove Tuesday, I suppose) ...

To Orlando, Florida? ... nah, you'd probably only want some extra topping like Catfish or Trophy Bass that we're fresh out of, over here. We can rustle up anchovy and pineapple in a pinch ... (this conversation's making me hungry, now).

Eew, there's always a catch.

Anne will correct me if I misunderstood, but I think along the lines of (i) own site, (ii) syndication network (people/sites/ezines "already lined up"), (iii) article directory or two.

As described here?

(Just getting the subject back to something culinary, you see ... ).