So I am told the whole point of posting on ezine is in hopes someone will use your article on their website and you will get the traffic from it. So it is fine to use these articles on your site? My question is, can I use the article, change the link to my own affiliate product or scrap it totally and provide a link back to their ezine page for credit? See I want to start a auto blog of sorts but where I put the content in it manually and make some adsense money or some affiliate money with their articles. I am just wondering if pointing to their ezine page is credit enough such as saying : Original article source: "www.theirezineprofilelinkhere.com"
If articles are available for re posting or syndication, it will tell you so in their TOS, along with any stipulations for doing so. If it doesn't say you can, then you can't. I would read it for myself, and not take the word of "what you heard", that is the only way to be safe and sure that you are doing the right thing. Just on GP taking an article, and putting it on your blog could be considered copyright infringing, however, some articles are available through creative commons that allow you do so, some even allow editing, alterations, and updates. If they don't express that this is OK, then you are stealing. I have a blog that is published under creative commons, and has contributers who also understand that their contributions may be reposted, so it is possible. Each service is different, you need read the TOS. From an SEO standpoint, reposting other peoples articles won't do you any good From an ethical stand point, using other peoples work to make money is no way to run a business, write your own articles if you want to be in business, or chose another business where you can actually do the work.
The whole reason someone writes articles for a site like ezinearticles is for the link. In other words, the "trade" is they give you content... and you give them a link. So you're breaking the rules if you take their content and strip out their link. You can confirm this by looking carefully at the terms of use on the page with the article you want to copy. BTW, I have noticed that some people (very foolishly) write articles but don't include links in their bio... Obviously, you could republish these and not have any outbound links.