Reprint articles hijacked by text link ads – Great for authors!
We all know that online publishers earn revenue from our free reprint articles. They place pay-per-click ads on the web page that contains the article, and the advertiser pays them whenever someone clicks on the ad. Most use programs like Google AdSense which automatically identify the subject of the article and deliver an ad related to that subject.
But did you know that publishers can do a similar thing within the article itself? They can turn any word within your article into an ad! They use programs like TextLinkAds to turn select target keywords into hyperlinks to the advertisers website. When a reader clicks on a link, the advertisers website opens within the same window. In other words, the page is hijacked and your article disappears!
Gasp! As authors, we spend a lot of time planning and writing content designed to hold the readers attention. Surely we should condemn anything which hijacks our audience?
The answer to that question is most definitely, NO!
As a heavy Internet user, Im personally not a fan of text link ads. However, as an author of free reprint...