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Why is this important to Article Writers?
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By Hans Hasselfors
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Yahoo! has recently launched Creative Commons Search in Beta.This Yahoo! search service finds content across the web that hasa creative commons license. While almost anything you find onthe internet has a full copyright, the creative commons licenseallows an author to share their content with others, undercertain conditions. This type of license is very beneficial tothe article marketer.
The creative commons license is gaining wide acceptance acrossthe internet. Yahoo and Google have now both incorporatedcreative commons search into their engines. The main creativecommons search engine is located athttp://www.creativecommons.org. A creative commons search haseven been adopted into the Firefox browser.
Expanding your visibility
Every smart article writer concentrates on wide exposure. Youwant your articles to be on as many web sites as possible. Byputting a Creative Commons License on your articles, you areallowing other web sites, e-zines, online publications and printpublication to publish your article, therefore expanding yourvisibility.
Now, with a powerhouse like Yahoo! coming in with their newCreative Commons Search, you can have hundreds of your articlesto be placed in a select search on Yahoo!.
To get your articles into Yahoo's Creative Commons Search, youmust follow 3 simple steps.
1. Select the license that suits your preferences athttp://www.creativecommons.org/license/ .
2. You will then be prompted to choose whether or not you wantto allow commercial use of your work and whether or not you willallow modifications of your work. After you have set yourpreferences, hit Select License.
3. You will now be taken to the page that will let you cut andcopy a piece of text to paste into your webpage. This text willindicate that your articles have a creative commons license.
You should choose the license that meets your preferences.However, if you are going to be using the license for articlemarketing, there are some preferences that would be morebeneficial for you. It is best not to allow any modification ofyour articles because this could dilute their value. You want tobrand yourself as a trusted resource in your area of expertise.If someone is allowed to modify your content, this could lead tonegative branding for you and your web site. With than in mind,do make sure that you put a lot of thought into the type ofcreative commons license you choose. Creative commons licensesare non-revocable.
Once you put up the license on your web pages, it shouldn't takemore than a couple of weeks for Yahoo! Creative Commons Searchto find your pages as long as you have some well-placedback-links.
This strategy can create hundreds of very targeted linkspointing to your site through the creative commons searchengines. These are indexed pages in the Yahoo and Googlespecialized engines. The last time I checked athttp://search.yahoo/cc , boingboing.net had over 39,000 of theirpages indexed in the creative commons. ProBlogger.net had over500. You can do the same simply by applying the Creative CommonsLicense to your site and letting Yahoo discover you.
The Creative Commons license allows you to declare a certainamount of rights to your article, while still encouraging itsduplication across the internet and ensuring that you arecredited as the author.
However, while the creative commons licenses hold much value,there are still relatively few people who are taking advantageof it to gain more visibility for their articles and theirwebsite. Therefore, now is the perfect time to move into thislucrative market. With Yahoo Creative Commons Search leading theway, you know there is sure to be significant growth to come.
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