There ARE companies like Pluck.com that allow blogs to opt IN and that is the only way for redistribution to work legally and ethically.

Good luck in your company, we hope you make ethical and legal choices in order to grow your company rather than the shady, horrid tactics of this company mentioned above.

It is about providing a win/win situation for authors who wish to share their content in exchange for notoriety and backlinks to their websites, as well as providing a better experience for consumers who enjoy a variety of content mediums on a website.

Many of my blogs provide a means for other bloggers to post their articles to my sites with backlinks in their signature to their own sites. It is a win/win for me (because I get content relevant to my choice of topics, while I get to spend time with my kids) and the author (who gets two powerful links to their site of choice).

I admit, I intentionally place ads that are more likely to get clicked than the links to their sites. Call me a capitalist, I don’t care. I’m not a writer, blogger, website developer for my health. I do it as a business.

However, the main reason they share their content and the reason I write articles and books to give away, is to get free advertising for my own businesses.

No text content is provided through this or any other legal service, that hasn’t been agreed to be shared by signing up for Google’s Feed Burner RSS (Really Simple Syndication) service, or article directories that authors want to be shared.

If Word Press Direct is thorough, as I would like my service to be, it would provide automatic image content, intentionally shared on sites like Flicker, PhotoBucket and other sharing sites as well as video from sharing sites like You Tube, Metacafe and others, to provide a more complete educational and pleasurable experience to one of it’s users sites. It should also provide easy access to relevant products from a variety of sources to keep the visitor from having to search further for what they want.

Unfortunately, with all of the amazing talent and gifts God has given us, there simply is not enough time in the day for anyone of us to be everything we are capable of, by ourselves.
Why not teem up with like minded individuals to produce a better product or experience for others?

I know most of the posters here have concerns about thieves and those who demand something for nothing in return. However, I believe it is safe to assume that those lazy SOBs will never succeed (something to do with karma, maybe). However, there is a difference between laziness and finding or creating tools and partnerships to be more efficient.

If you are struggling to get traffic to your website and content, it may be a good idea to share your talent on more websites. If you want your talented writing to be ultimately protected, why not convert the content to PDF format and sell it on Amazon.com, Clickbank or install a membership script on your website.

From what I have seen from about 20 minutes of research on this company, is that WP Direct provides a service that benefits article, video and image syndicators, as well as webmasters and advertisers, by helping to provide a quality end result website that attracts and pleases visitors.

It is not just Google who ranks multi-content authority sites high. Utilizing all of these mediums enables me to get my personally authored content in front of millions of people and ranking page 1 for hundreds of search terms, on multiple search engines.

Instead of tar and feathering other businesses that you are not a part of, it may just benefit you to take a closer look at the service they provide (apparently to 10,000 needy people) and see if it is actually a needed service that may benefit millions. Maybe you, instead of me will build the best mouse trap in this niche.

Are you up to it?
Brian

Many bloggers and content creators use Creative commons licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses because they WANT their content to be freely distributed to as wide an audience as possible. After all, why are you creating content? to be read right?
And if you got a few 1000 extra subscribers because of all that exposure wouldn’t you be pretty happy?

Another take on the issue anyway.
Andrew

As a blogger I only syndicate excerpts of my posts that people can do what they like with. Hopefully they also link back to my site.

Did you know that Yahoo! has a free feature called Yahoo Pipes! That you can put any rss feed information into and put the resulting code on any web page?

RSS is made for this sort of thing.

And how did Google get brought into this? roflmao
There are plenty of ways to make money with a website besides Adsense. Most of the WPDirect sites are running affiliate ads rather than Adsense.

As far as wpdirect goes, they aren’t out to steal your content. The content it ads to your site comes from places that make content syndication easy because that is what it is designed for. Blog rss feeds are for syndicating content, Youtube videos can be embedded in any webpage, etc.

Spammers or Sploggers are going to steal content till the end of time and it’s just something you have to deal with. You don’t have to like it, but you can’t stop it.

I have personally used WPDirect but I did not use it to steal content. The features that gather content and auto publish to your blog have to be enabled. The reason I would use it is to get a quick install and optimization of a blog without having to manually gather, install and setup all the plugins you need to SEO optimize your blog(which can take hours even when you know what your doing).

Unfortunately, for me, I liked it.

You see… the idea was they offered me a chance to load up a blog with content immediately. Obviously, I’m not greedy or lazy so I also wrote some of my own content.

But, it was convenient to have an instant-and-ready blog.

Everytime I post unoriginal content (maybe yours)… I ALWAYS include a link back to your site (thus increasing your ranking in Google) and allowing the reader a chance to check out your site (thus creating a testimonial and FREE advertising for you).

I really don’t see what’s wrong with that. If it was stealing… I wouldn’t allow the reader to know who originally created the content and how to contact them. This system isn’t like that. I credit the originator.

If you use this “tool” intelligently and not like everyone here is jumping to the conclusion and THINKS people are doing… it will really help your business.

Heck, it helped mine tremendously!

- Ron

P.S. — I dunno. I probably shouldn’t have opened my big fat mouth because I’m the only one on this blog who uses WordPressDirect.

I completely understand if you don’t agree with me. After all, I’m walking into a tiger den with everyone bashing the product.

Just do me a favor… don’t judge the tool based on what scam-artists and content theives would use it for.

Obviously, the developers should have made this a little more reserved and not open to the public. However, remember this tool is only available to those who are willing to spend over $100 per month to utilize. It’s not available to freebies and bottom-feeders.

Sure, the basic product is free, but this particular feature called “auto-content” is only available to high-paying members.

The system is advertised to help your business grow… and it does if used ethically and honestly.

Just my two cents.