Article Marketing: Fox in the henhouse competitor or Chicken Little?

I was recently asked by an author to remove a free content
article from a client web site where we posted (with
many different authors) to increase current
relevance in a site that fit the article.

This article was submitted to the archives free web content to lists
I had found online. A search turned up tens of
other uses around the web. I started to believe that this
author simply does not like the site that used the article
sought removal to avoid competition. We took it up to
avoid a losing battle to something that did not want
fight.

The site we used to be competing with this person, but the
customer's site has more to lose than the author, because readers
can click through the site by the author resource box
connection and to obtain the customer at the customer place. Having your
article on competitors sites is an incredible marketing coup!

You should be happy every time it happens as far as they follow
use restrictions and provide live links from the resource
box at the end of your articles. The client wisely saw topical
content for your web site more valuable to the concern
external links to the author / competitor.

It's good for your immeasurable link popularity, and
given that connection is from a relevant site and in subject,
rather than from a directory of links unnecessary. Your articles
serve from 500 to 1200 words of advertising for your business
if it appears on competing sites, it is as if you were
able to sneak out the back door and steal customers from
competing site through your article. Prefer to appear in a
random list of links, or have 1000 words to convince people to
buy your products or services?

This puzzled me only as a content distributor. All
those authors who have requested removal would gain a valuable
one-way inbound link to their web sites and news
relevant content to increase their link popularity and
their visibility.

Why would they want those items, that reputation,
that the credibility and high quality links removed? When
there is no copyright issue, you gain much more from
use of your article that is lost by having an article on
sites that do not like.

I lost articles to the world that I'm not proud,
simply because I've become a better writer since I distributed
originally. Several things are deprecated and recommend
that are no longer valid or, in some cases, not entirely useless
by today's standards ranking of search engines - but it is
because the algorithms of search engines have changed and the best
practices have changed.

That's why now updated my copyright article to show clearly
the date associated with the item. But I never
request removal of my old articles from sites that have
published articles. They will be even more relevant and valuable
me of any encumbrances, off-topic reciprocal links
directory, because they are an important link within the text that
gain link popularity and sometimes lead to new customers and
further visibility.

Removing items from your sites would be foolish compeitor
in most cases and reduces the visibility and your link
popularity. Both the fox in the henhouse competitor instead
Chicken Little in the fear of falling heavens article marketing.

st 10, 2005...