Re: A search-engine question....

> I don't know if Margaret's right or wrong; and neither does she or anyone
> else as far as what SEs may do in the future.
> Margaret, not looking to be confrontational with this comment, but there
> are discussions on many things on the internet. What I have found is that
> many of these discussions are based on faulty information. What I try to
> do is read various viewpoints and weigh them to see if they're logical.
> Why do youi feel this way? Article syndication is growing by leaps and
> bounds. What are the chances that CNN or Yahoo or other big sites are
> going to be penalized for publishing others' stuff?

I think article marketing and content-sharing is going to be around for a very long time; I have a couple of article directories and am just creating a third one for a different market. This is a "Strike while the iron's hot" moment! The only reason I am wary of this strategy at all is because IF I've got several sites, and am republishing content from a shared source, then others will be doing the same. My best "guess" is that the search engines will finally rebel at the proliferation of article directories. And I really hope that they will take at least 10 years before they do!! LOL

> The internet needs content and information and the capacity to gobble up
> any and all seems to be infinite.
> I think that's why most directories have categories. To put the articles
> in their correct place. The categories are the niches.
> Don't know about adsense, but I'd look at what the successful directories
> are doing.
> The one thing that no one has thought of is how much work this will be for
> someone to administer. In order to be worthwhile,MaaMaw, you may want to
> consider monetizing, somehow.
> Many of these places charge a fee of some kind or another. It's admirable
> to want to provide a free service, but I'm afraid that it may lose it's
> luster to you if you do this for free.

The reason I made the comment about adsense in the case of FIB is because in the past Lesley has found that the ads displayed on the forum were from the companies with which she had most problems. Keywords such as MLM, etc, were throwing up ads for MLM opportunities. If Lesley publishes articles by way of a warning to the unwary, I don't think she's going to want the adsense ads they produce :O

BTW, you're quite right about me not knowing what the Search Engines will or won't do. But there have been quite a few strategies developed by folks to take advantage of the income-earning potential of Adsense, etc, and when the Search Engine gurus decide they are too spammy, they've found ways to shut them out. This may never happen with article marketing and article directories.

Margaret