Some one told me that he would like to 'buy' some of my articles that are on EA. Now, I can see a delete button next to every article at EA. So I was wondering, if I can delete those articles from EA, and sell it to him? Any idea if this could be done?
As far as I understand, you cannot sell the articles that way. But he may be interested in buying links from that article (from resource box or article body). The articles may belong to his niche and they may work nicely in grabbing traffic to the website. But deleting them and then selling them will not work as they've already been published. You can confirm what exactly he is looking for. Cheers!
Hw wants to use the articles in his website/blog. Neither of us are sure what kind of overall effect his would have. I read the TOS of EA, but it seems that they have not mentioned anything conclusive on this issue. Delete button surely means that we can delete our article, and that we have full control over it. Once the article gets deleted, the article url should be deindexed by the search spiders.. I guess
If he wants to use the articles on site, it's better if you re-write your articles and sell them if he is liking the content and pitch so much. But selling same articles will not be a good idea even if you delete them from directory.
Even if you delete your articles from Ezine, how can you be sure that they have never been copied or uploaded/saved in other files? What matters is whether your prospective buyer is willing to buy even as he knows that the said articles have been submitted to Ezine. Just crossed my mind, what could be Ezine's reason not to specify which articles that we have submitted have they published or not? In my case, for instance, I have submitted 9 approved articles; in its standard report, Ezine merely states 14 or so publications of the articles but they never say which specific articles have been published and for how many times already. The only other info that they give is the number of times all and every one of the articles have been viewed in the internet.
You own the copyright to your articles, so you should have no problem selling them if you remove them from ezinearticles. Just keep in mind that you've already granted their users a license to publish them - removing them from ezinearticles doesn't mean those publishing them with their credit have to remove them. In other words, selling doesn't necessarily give the paying customer exclusive rights. However, their intention in wanting to buy them might just be to keep further people from publishing it (think about Web template sites selling "unique" rights on templates that were already sold nonexclusively, in those cases "unique" just means it won't be sold or published again after that purchase).
they are your articles that is why your name is at the bottom! you can do anything you want with them!
Yeah its your content and you have all the right in the world to do whatever you want to do with them. Cheers
Why sell those articles?Create some on the same subject and offer those to the buyer.That way you can keep your article on ezine but satisfy the buyer too
I think selling the same articles to other it will not a good thing because its already been published.But if somebody likes your article content then you can re-write the same article in a different way or some thing creative and there after you can sell the article.I don't know exactly so, for more information read the term of service of EzineArticles.
Even if you delete these articles, Google has already indexed them. You know how swiftly Google indexes EA pages. The only way is to re-write those articles. Make sure the re-writes are original and unique and sell them to the buyer. I think this is the only solution to this question. Rahail
You can actually delete your articles from Ezines and sell them, however, I don't think that any site that will reuse those articles will have good rankings with SEs.
I may be missing something here but the request strikes me as odd. By submitting your articles to Ezinearticles, you've effectively given permission for anyone to reprint your article on their site provided they adhere to the stipulations laid down by EA in their publisher guidelines. This pretty much amounts to ensuring that all bio links remain intact. Why then would your 'customer' want to buy the articles from you when: a) they can reprint them for free from EA, b) they don't even need your permission to do so - they already have it by virtue of the article being on EA in the first place. Removing the articles from EA is futile if they have already been picked up by other webmasters and reprinted on other websites. You'd be selling non-unique articles that might no longer appear on EA, but may appear elsewhere. My advice would be to only submit articles to EA and other directories that you want to see reproduced multiple times around the web. Once it's on there, forget about it. You've effectively given it to the world for free.
That is what we always hear but it is not true Example Search phrase Creative Ways to Decorate For the Holidays in Google and see the site that is #5 (tasha366) in the results - it is a very small blog and the article is an Ezine Article reprint. I am not saying that this is a highly competitive search phrase or anything else about it. My only point is that this blog has a duplicate article and it appears on the first page of results. ALSO JM is correct - you actually own the copyright for the articles you submit to EA and so you can legally do anything you want with them.
IMHO, don't sell articles published in EA. There is this one possibility: Your articles (keywords) may have ranked very high in Google or Yahoo or MSN. Now, suppose I wish to use that high-ranking (possibly on the 1st SERP for highly competitive keyword) and get all the targeted traffic to my website, then I can just buy your EA article -- only if it is still UNIQUE, (I can find out if it has been copied/published elsewhere) change the resource box details with my links, and re-submit to EA in my name. Within a short period, that article will again rank high in SERPs. If I am in a hurry and want that article to bring in existing traffic to my own product, or if I have found an affiliate product that matches the content of your high-ranking article already producing targeted traffic, then I would gladly give away $50 to $100 just for that one EA article! Of course, I can calculate from the existing traffic, when I can break even and then profit! The EA article is producing results, and the author can be easily approached! It is possible that the author will not have any idea of how much the article's true worth is! In this case, I may even get the article for as low as $5 to $10 (This is all hypothetical, but highly possible! And also, your's truly isn't a sort of person who would stoop that low! LOL) This is just a possibility, and I want you EA Expert Authors to also be expert marketers! For a small cost, I will get the top-ranking article and all the traffic that's being produced by it. I may even use that article and build a mini-site around it! Then, I can also use Adwords (PPC) to bring in additional targeted traffic... ------ So, is your article ranking highly? How much is the buyer offering you? ------ If your article is ranking highly, then why don't you analyse it further and monetize it yourself? If someone is interested in your article, then do a deep analysis of what would be the reason for the offer... there could be a bigger catch in it other than the high quality! Check it before parting away with a possible "gold mine", or a possible uncut "Kohinoor"!