It's a small world wide web
When you first connect to the Internet, and peer into your screen, it can feel a bit like you against the world. You're outside peering in and the rest of the world is on the other side from you.
But then you get comfortable with it, and start interacting. You get sucked in, and once you've joined a few forums, you get used to seeing your name on the screen, with your previous comments.
If like me and thousands of others, you end up down the line writing content for websites, you get used to reading your own work back.
After ten years of creating web copy, I thought I was used to that. Three months after starting to write for Helium, and building my portfolio of work, I thought I was used to seeing my fisog and blurb, and my name on articles.
I joined twitter and it seemed perfectly natural to see my tweets in with the others. But something different has started happening in the last week or two that's taken it to a whole new level.
Now, I've sold a few articles to publishers who then used that work without my name. Ghostwriting Internet content is faily common, and it was pretty close to what I'd been doing for nearly a decade, except now I was getting paid for it, instead of someone else.
Recently, though, I've sold articles to be used with my byline, and a bio, and got a regular contract to provide articles for them. Nothing unusual there, except I set up a news search in feedreader with my name as part of my research for an article on social marketing, and all of a sudden, the RSS reader is coming up with news articles with my name as the author, on sites that are not mine.
Then I found a couple of blogs linking back to my articles. The first two were obvious RSS rips, with the headline, opening few sentences, and my name. No problem, they're directing traffic to my articles, I'm making money, so are they.
I was invited to write on a fellow Helium writer's blog, Freelancingandmore.com and added a post there. "How to make your Editor's Life Easier."
And then this gem popped up, on a blog. A suggestion readers
But then you get comfortable with it, and start interacting. You get sucked in, and once you've joined a few forums, you get used to seeing your name on the screen, with your previous comments.
If like me and thousands of others, you end up down the line writing content for websites, you get used to reading your own work back.
After ten years of creating web copy, I thought I was used to that. Three months after starting to write for Helium, and building my portfolio of work, I thought I was used to seeing my fisog and blurb, and my name on articles.
I joined twitter and it seemed perfectly natural to see my tweets in with the others. But something different has started happening in the last week or two that's taken it to a whole new level.
Now, I've sold a few articles to publishers who then used that work without my name. Ghostwriting Internet content is faily common, and it was pretty close to what I'd been doing for nearly a decade, except now I was getting paid for it, instead of someone else.
Recently, though, I've sold articles to be used with my byline, and a bio, and got a regular contract to provide articles for them. Nothing unusual there, except I set up a news search in feedreader with my name as part of my research for an article on social marketing, and all of a sudden, the RSS reader is coming up with news articles with my name as the author, on sites that are not mine.
Then I found a couple of blogs linking back to my articles. The first two were obvious RSS rips, with the headline, opening few sentences, and my name. No problem, they're directing traffic to my articles, I'm making money, so are they.
I was invited to write on a fellow Helium writer's blog, Freelancingandmore.com and added a post there. "How to make your Editor's Life Easier."
And then this gem popped up, on a blog. A suggestion readers
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