Anyone used this service before? - Organic Content Distribution
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I was pitched today by a "content syndication network" that claims to be able to syndicate across 200 "local news" sites along with syndicate the content to the editors and writers social sites, along with the publisher social sites for a flat fee. Just like a MarketWire.com service but NOT for press releases. For articles.
The company offering this is www.befirstinc.com.
Need to vett them out and make sure this is not a FTC nor Google Quality Guidelines violation for SEO purposes.
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Looks like they don't watch their own <a target="_blank">site </a>very well (see all the viagra, laser removal and everything else in the comment section). I believe a company "selling" content services, but don't monitor what is on there site could be a sign not to use them.
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They claimed MSN, Yahoo and that they also ghost write for the AP. So, I'll get some references and also some case studies. I agree, it should be for newsworthy content if I decide to use them. Thanks for your opinion.
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I don't know anything about this company but I don't think that I have to know about them.
I would use this service iff and only iff ALL FOUR of the following are working in concert....
-- I have a strong message to get out (a message that I want people to see... not have these be signposts to pass traffic to my website)
-- These news sites have kickass traffic - that does not come from search. They are worthless if these sites are ghost towns and if their traffic is mostly from search most of their pages will be filtered because you have 200 duplicate copies out there.
-- My page is going to be strongly promoted in prominent positions on these sites and not have a link to them on the ass of the site.
-- My page is going to be promoted on them for a long time and not appear today and be gone tomorrow just like stale news disappears from every other news site.
I personally can't imagine getting the four items above all working simultaneously in a way that would give me value. So I would not be a user of that service.
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