Can free article sites damage my reputation
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Hi i have been submitting a lot of fresh articles on free article sites and they have been picked up which is good but my problem is, i am finding loads of these sites who have picked up my article using some sort of article rewrite programme and my articles look like they have now been written by a two year old.
I want to know if this is going to spoil my reputation and i would like to know why people use these programmes when they do not even make sense.
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Can free article sites damage my reputation
In my opinion they are mainly a waste of time.
I want to know if this is going to spoil my reputation
If they have you sounding like an idiot on the web.. .then yes.
i would like to know why people use these programmes when they do not even make sense.
They think that they convert your article into their money.
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Cheers for that, i will have a read of it now. I cannot understand why people use these re writing article software where they do such a bad job
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Hey Diane,
Google will rarely penalize a site for it's inbound links. Otherwise it would be too easy for black hat SEO's to get their competitors penalized out of the SERPs. So it is unlikely that the free article sites will damage your SEO reputation.
But it may damage your reputation with Humans, the reputation that counts. Your articles should help to establish your position as an expert in your line of business, sounding like a 2 year old probably doesn't help.
Best thing is to get in contact with reputable blogs or sites in your niche and see if they will run your articles. Or else put the articles on your own site and promote them there to build your traffic up.
Outspoken Media has a good article on promoting your own content, should you be interested:
http://outspokenmedia.com/online-marketing/how-to-promote-good-content/
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