Matthew Keegan writes:

Good article! However, what it all boils down to is this: many of these Private Label buyers simply do not know how to write. No, I am not saying they can’t learn, but they are taking the shortcut route and having someone else do the hard work for them.

Frankenstein/private label articles will ultimately diminish the integrity of the internet. I am wondering just when the Big 3 search engines — Google, Yahoo!, and MSN — will step in and put a stop to this nonsense. How will they do that? By penalizing the sites and banning them from participating in their PPC programs. A big fat zero PR is another option.

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Patsi Krakoff writes:

This is a thorough and eye-opening review of what’s going on in Internet content issues. As a legitimate provider of article content for executive and leadership newsletters, I defend the right of busy professionals to buy quality content to complete their newsletter tasks. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with buying and using content for newsletters, as long as it is quality content with research data clearly cited. The problems occur with the sticky issues of republishing and re-distributing the same content by multiple persons. I advise my subscribers and clients that if they are going to try to submit articles to directories, to rewrite the articles they buy from me, add their own personal experiences, and change the title. Of course, that won’t work for EzineArticles.com, but probably would for many other directories.

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Lance Winslow writes:

All this content thievery seems really stupid to me. It is easy to create content which is meaningful or becoming an affiliate of EzineArticles with 165,000 articles online or simply write your own?

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