Yahoo! has recently launched Creative Commons Search in Beta.
This Yahoo! search service finds content across the web that has
a creative commons license. While almost anything you find on
the Internet has a full copyright, the creative commons license
allows an author to share their content with others, under
certain conditions. This type of license is very beneficial to
the article marketer.
The creative commons license is gaining wide acceptance across
the Internet. Yahoo and Google have now both incorporated
creative commons search into their engines. The main creative
commons search engine is located at
http://www.creativecommons.org. A creative commons search has
even been adopted into the Firefox browser.
Expanding your visibility
Every smart article writer concentrates on wide exposure. You
want your articles to be on as many web sites as possible. By
putting a Creative Commons License on your articles, you are
allowing other web sites, e-zines, online publications and print
publication to publish your article, therefore expanding your
visibility.
Now, with a powerhouse like Yahoo! coming in with their new
Creative Commons Search, you can have hundreds of your articles
to be placed in a select search on Yahoo!.
To get your articles into Yahoo's Creative Commons Search, you
must follow 3 simple steps.
1. Select the license that suits your preferences at
http://www.creativecommons.org/license/. 2. You will then be prompted to choose whether or not you want
to allow commercial use of your work and whether or not you will
allow modifications of your work. After you have set your
preferences, hit Select License.
3. You will now be taken to the page that will let you cut and
copy a piece of text to paste into your webpage. This text will
indicate 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 article
marketing, there are some preferences that would be more
beneficial for you. It is best not to allow any modification of
your articles because this could dilute their value. You want to
brand yourself as a trusted resource in your area of expertise.
If someone is allowed to modify your content, this could lead to
negative branding for you and your web site. With than in mind,
do make sure that you put a lot of thought into the type of
creative commons license you choose. Creative commons licenses
are non-revocable.
Once you put up the license on your web pages, it shouldn't take
more than a couple of weeks for Yahoo! Creative Commons Search
to find your pages as long as you have some well-placed
back-links.
This strategy can create hundreds of very targeted links
pointing to your site through the creative commons search
engines. These are indexed pages in the Yahoo and Google
specialized engines. The last time I checked at
http://search.yahoo/cc, boingboing.net had over 39,000 of their
pages indexed in the creative commons. ProBlogger.net had over
500. You can do the same simply by applying the Creative Commons
License to your site and letting Yahoo discover you.
The Creative Commons license allows you to declare a certain
amount of rights to your article, while still encouraging its
duplication across the Internet and ensuring that you are
credited as the author.
However, while the creative commons licenses hold much value,
there are still relatively few people who are taking advantage
of it to gain more visibility for their articles and their
website. Therefore, now is the perfect time to move into this
lucrative market. With Yahoo Creative Commons Search leading the
way, you know there is sure to be significant growth to come.
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