Do I still have rights for my blog article?

I've have done a lot of promoting with my articles separately from my blog onto article sites and article directories. If a site or directory claims publishing rights to the article after it was submited, can I still keep my article published on my blog without the site or directory's consent? (the articles were published on the blog before any of the article submissions).

 

You have to see the agreement that the directories presented to you when you submitted to them. Some directories allow you to publish non exclusive articles while some do not.

 

If I alter a few sentences or have an added parargraph on my blog, does that make the article not under exclusive publish rights?

 

You should rewrite the whole articles instead of just adding a few paragraphs and altering a few sentences.

 

My main issue is that i submitted an article to an rapid article submitter that sent my articles to 100's of sites. The article submitter did not specify any copyright rules about any of the sites or the names of the sites. I did change the articles to add links onto it and to make it readable as stand alone article(no ties to the blog's contents which the blog articles have). Do you think I will have a problem with sites accepting these articles and if there is, will the article just get banned from the sites or are there other penalties involved?

 

Your blog/sites will risk duplicated content penalty from SE if those articles are also listed in your blog/sites. And IMO submitting to 100 dirs won't really make significant effects compared to submitting just to Ezinearticles and AC.

 

Don't submit stuff from your site to article sites. Write all new content for them. That's a bad business practice and it will hurt you.

I used to submit to 100s of places. Now, I just submit to a few key places. You're trying to get others to use your articles. Getting links on article directories amounts to about nothing anyway.

Why waste your money submitting to places that won't see any action? Most of the article sites out there aren't promoted, aren't maintained and offer nothing of value. You minds well just print out your articles and throw them in the street.

 

Thanks MarketJunction for the advice, I'm rewriting things as we speak. It is wrong to not use fresh things in articles and in the site. the visitors want to see more than just the same article. Thanks again

 

Another common practice, short of rewriting the entire article, is to create a synopsis or very short summary of the entire article. You can submit the short (250-300 word) version of the article and link back to the original on your site with a "For additional information, see the complete article at ..."

That may or may not work for you based on your topic, objective and submission sites, but it is done rather frequently.

Rebecca

 

thanks you the advice Rebecca, kind of like when an article is submitted on digg but including an extra link back to the article on the short summary.

 

Exactly.