Should you publish clients' articles under their own accounts or yours?

hello everyone,

Here is a question which I've been pondering for a while. is it better to create a seperate account on articles sites, for example for each of your clients, or just use one account, yours, and publish them under your own name with the appropriate links?

For example, I have developed a good standing ezinearticles account. I have also been publishing articles on it under different accounts. But I wonder if they would not get more traction under my own account, even with a different pen name?

What are your thoughts on this? On the one hand, by publishing under the client's name, they are gaining the authority related to their topics. On the other hand, by using my account, they're benefitting from my status. I'd love to see your thoughts on this.

 

Articles for clients should be published under their own accounts.

Articles for yourself, should be published under your own account.

Why risk your own account that has reached a certain status and is in good standing because a client did something like change the content on the site that a link in the article linked to? The link text may read something neutral and relative to the article, but the actual content on the page is porn, a torrent site, or filled with nasty computer bugs and malicious code. It linked to a clean site when you wrote and published the article, but a month later, links to garbage you don't want your account associated with. You wouldn't know anything was changed unless you check links religiously or someone reported it.

What if the article contained links to a program your client was an affiliate of and the program no longer exists or was changed to something else. Now you have published content with broken links or links that lead to irrelevant content. Clients aren't always going to remember how many links they have out there, where they are, or even bother to contact you to make changes especially if they no longer promote the program or aren't even aware there is a problem.



When you publish your own work under your own account, you have control of the links. If an affiliate program you are promoting no longer exists or changes their linking structure, you can edit those links. You would get the notice of changes with the program and can change the links as needed.

You always have full control over your own account. Create an account for each client and let them do as they please with that account. They can have as many individual writers writing for them as they want. They can keep their own account for as long as they want. Your account has no effect on their account and vice versa. It's beneficial and smart for both parties to keep the accounts separate. All you are responsible for is writing the article and maybe publishing it to their account. That's it.

 

yes, that is a good point. it's how I operate and have always operated.

 

I always offer the clients the option to use my account, or publish it on theirs. There are advantages to both.

Michael

 

I use theirs.

What happens when and if you part ways? Are you going to leave their stuff on your account? They paid for it to be there.

Then there's the perception of the thing. If I have a bunch of posts pertaining to all of the different industries my clients work in, how can I portray myself/the client as an expert in any of them. It might help sell you as a writer but it won't do your clients any favors. And, what happens when you have more than one client in the same industry?

 

These are all good points. I agree, the thing to do is use separate accounts for each client. Though there are advantages to doing it the other way, the negatives far outweigh. thank you all for chiming in.

 

Owner is he who owns the account. Being professional and honest to client ultimately make your clients' owner of the content that you create for them. Now you publish it under your own name, its a different story. For my clients, I set up accounts under their business names and hold them owner of everything that goes through those accounts.

 

Depends how your asking that question. You could do one of several things:

-if posting content to your blog from others, make sure each page is tagged with ?rel=publisher for you, ?rel=author for each individual author. All they have to do is add your blog to list of 'Contributed to' blogs in their G+ profile, and a clear separation between publisher and original author is made.

-if posting your content onto other blogs, do just the opposite. At the very least, make sure your G+ link is appended with ?rel=author at the end.