Thread: Content articles with a twist

If we know anything about SEO its that both content and linking strategies are important. Many forums promote reciprocal linking and many of us receive daily requests for reciprocal links, but since the Jagger update the future of reciprocal links is being questioned.

Many SEOs are now promoting content articles as a better way to obtain links. IMO it is a fair trade as the articles are a quick way to add relevant content to one's web site. I recently had an experience with an article on my web site from another author with several internal links on the page. The only external links where those of the author who notified me that she did not approve so I removed the article.

This gave me an idea to release content articles under a creative commons license allowing others to change the content, modify or add to the content with the stipulation that the original author is given credit with a link or two back to their site. For example, I just wrote articles on luxury real estate and the condo craze in the Miami area. The first part of the articles are general but the second part are specific to the area. By allowing others to localize the article in exchange for links everyone benefits.

I am still thinking out ramifications of this approach and would appreciate other opinions.

Very interesting.

So that would be a kind of article database or exchange in which you could p/u an article, link to the author, modify the content (for personal use) to the point it is original per the SE perspective and use it for your site or blog...am I following you correctly?

LJRE

Originally Posted by La Jolla Real Estate

Very interesting.

So that would be a kind of article database or exchange in which you could p/u an article, link to the author, modify the content (for personal use) to the point it is original per the SE perspective and use it for your site or blog...am I following you correctly?

LJRE

That could happen, but my thought was more in the line of putting good content on a good site. The content would under a creative commons license allowing modification, but distribution would be limited to obtaining a license from the originator. Most if not all content articles do not allow modification which I find ridiculous. Most SEOs who have had experience using duplicate articles believe that from a SE perspective a duplicate article is NOT duplicate content provided it is not in the same Class C IP.

Here is a sample of a content page for Luxury Homes.