http://www.killfive.com Five Killer Skills for Freelance Writing Success Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:12:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.killfive.com/exclusive-versus-widely-published-content/ http://www.killfive.com/exclusive-versus-widely-published-content/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:00:54 +0000 Killer http://www.killfive.com/?p=13 embaPub="pub-7892081358828087 ";Exclusive versus Duplicate Content It can be frustrating for writers trying to produce new and fresh content for websites regularly. Since this is how many writers make their living, it is an important issue. It is hard to image that any author has one superb, search-engine-friendly article in her every day. Whether you decide to keep your content published only on one site or publish duplicates depends on your goals, your time frame for achievement, and your own abilities. Do I Have To? One could argue the web is so vast that one good article published on ten websites is unlikely to be viewed twice by a person in the same day. The companies buying content would disagree, however. When original content is in demand, the website displaying that content gets all the traffic. The webhost that paid for the content wants all that traffic. This is why exclusive rights and unique rights are more valuable than usage rights and elicit a higher sale price. Know Your Rights So what does that mean, “usage rights”, “unique rights” and “exclusive rights”? These are three types of licensing for online content. Usage rights allow the purchaser to publish content wherever she sees [...]]]> http://www.killfive.com/exclusive-versus-widely-published-content/feed/ 0