Why You Should Use Your Username as an Article Tag
by By using my username as tag for my articles helped traced sites that published my works without my permission and the people plagriarizing my articles across the Internet.
Image by NYCMarines via Flickr
For the past two months – April and May 2011 – I started using my username pruelpo as one of the tags for my articles I wrote. I considered it as a surveillance code to spot people using my articles and those sites that published them without my approval. When I googled my username, I found the three websites that published my article Osama Bin Laden: The Greatest Actor. They’re santacruzlaguna.com, wikio.co.uk and keepamericaatwork.com.
SantaCruzlaguna.com is a site powered by wordpress. The contents of the site is plugin by dagondesign.com. Wiki.Co.Uk is an information portal with a news search engine that searches press sites and blogs. It facilitates access to news not created by its editors. It is a technical contractor of the Internet under Community Directive 2000/31/EC of June 8, 2000 under electronic commerce. It is based in Luxembourg. The website is hosted by Altitude Telecom.
KeepAmericaatWork.com also known as KAAW was founded on November 5, 2007 – a site that gives the people a voice at the table. It is an independent media watching for corruption between business, government and people.
Reading my article on those sites, one thing that came up into my mind was a comment on one of my articles said, “Always think the positive side.” Considering that comment, I did not feel any negative reactions against those sites instead, I made my decision to use them too – by connecting my blog site to their sites which is another way of sharing my articles with those sites legally without spamming.
My unsername also help bring traffics and views to my articles through the search engines.
To refresh my previous articles visit the following links:
No-one Can Beat Osama Bin Laden as a Writer
About the author – I am a father of 3 for 24+years, OFW for 16 years +, A Blogger, Sometimes a Poet, A Writer, Self-motivated. I am friendly animal but can kick you off when it is needed. LOL. I have no specific areas where my writing will focus on. I write any subject under the merciless sun. I am a writer/contributor of Triond, Wikinut, Bukisa and Allvoices. Also I am a DXN Member/Distributor. I welcome people around the world who are positively thinking to start business with DXN.
Hit Triond, Write and Get Paid
My Other articles are available at The Filipino Diaspora and at My Article Photo Blog.
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Post Commentdame016
On June 4, 2011 at 10:18 am
I’ve noticed this move in our blog, TFD. Try ko nga din gamitin yung name ko as tag sa Triond articles. In fairness ha, ang daming kumuha ng articles mu. Ayan na sinearch ko na yung username ko sa google. hehe.
Ima Vee
On June 4, 2011 at 10:24 am
hmmm… that sounds useful Sir Paul. One way to spread our pen names in the web…
pruelpo
On June 4, 2011 at 11:00 am
@dame016 – you will be surprised to read your articles under your username provided by search engines. They go somewhere else aside from the sites that originally published them. Thank you dude for your time.
pruelpo
On June 4, 2011 at 11:02 am
@Ima – Right friend. It has many purpose. You can try it too. See you again.
fl0rencia
On June 4, 2011 at 11:22 am
aha. this is one nice and useful tip. thanks for sharing.
pruelpo
On June 4, 2011 at 11:28 am
@florencia – welcome. If you think this will work for you also then you can try too. Thank you for your time. See you around again friend.
Leonardo da Vinci E.
On June 4, 2011 at 11:30 am
Excellant advise! Permit me to thank you and congradulate you for good thinking.
pruelpo
On June 4, 2011 at 11:39 am
@leonardo da Vinci E. – Welcome. Happy to see you here. And thank you for your kind words, your time and commenting. I appreciate. See you again.
megamatt09
On June 4, 2011 at 12:05 pm
The actually does make a lot of sense. A good control and a good tip. Will try and to this from now on. Thanks for bringing this up.
pruelpo
On June 4, 2011 at 1:09 pm
You are always welcome dude megamatt. As usual thank you too for the kind words, for your time and commenting. I appreciate them. If you feel that it will work for you too just go ahead.
Rosettaartist1
On June 4, 2011 at 2:04 pm
True.
No Share
On June 4, 2011 at 6:08 pm
paul I use my penname as a tag, but the problem with my name is its common.In French, cheri is “my love” so I’m having problem with this unless I change it..lol
lapasan
On June 4, 2011 at 6:17 pm
A very good idea you give to me. From now on, I will also write my user name as one of my tags in my articles.
Likha
On June 4, 2011 at 9:31 pm
So that’s why we were advised in TFD to include our user name. Great advice. Will follow this.
pruelpo
On June 5, 2011 at 3:34 am
Thanks Rosett for stopping by.
pruelpo
On June 5, 2011 at 3:43 am
@macherie – keep it as is “Macherie” and then google it – see if the search engine provides you all what you have updated. I googled macherie and the search engine has led me to “Now I Know What is Phishing” I found your pen name in that article as one of the commentors.
pruelpo
On June 5, 2011 at 3:55 am
@dude Lapasan – it is my pleasure. Username or pen name of the author is a short code accepted by the search engine crawlers. Just try it then. Anyone who happens to search that pen name of yours will be redirected to all of what you have updated. When I googled Lapasan I found you in one of my articles and the rest are name of places, church and etc.
pruelpo
On June 5, 2011 at 4:03 am
@Likha – I googled Likha and it is very searchable word. There is nothing wrong to use our pen names or usernames as one of the tags for our articles. It also helps promote both articles and the author.
papaleng
On June 5, 2011 at 8:34 am
dude, I thank you a lot, for this very helpful info. I do check papaleng once in awhile. My daughter used to joke me. ” Dad, you own google na pala”..
Nali
On June 5, 2011 at 8:35 am
Oooh good advice! Didn’t know this actually, going to do this from now on, thnx!
pruelpo
On June 5, 2011 at 9:25 am
Dude Papaleng – it was proven by your daughter that you already owned Google – hehehe. Just go ahead. It is effective.
pruelpo
On June 5, 2011 at 9:27 am
@Nali – welcome dude. Thank you for stopping by and commenting. I appreciate. You can actually prove it by googling your pen name. See you again.
AshleyApathy
On June 5, 2011 at 10:07 am
I’m going to start doing that
cacaritalucu
On June 5, 2011 at 11:08 am
oh,,,now i know and i should try that. thank friend.
bobie
On June 5, 2011 at 11:17 pm
subukan ko nga ito..ever since di ko nalagay name ko sa tag eh..
pruelpo
On June 6, 2011 at 3:59 am
@Ashley – yes dude you can. there is nothing wrong with it as it is legally accepted by the search engines crawlers. See you around again and thank you.
pruelpo
On June 6, 2011 at 4:03 am
@Cacaritalucu – you are always welcome friend. You can try it too.
pruelpo
On June 6, 2011 at 4:06 am
@Bobie – now you can start Igan hehehe. Simple method but will provide you many benefits.
SharifaMcFarlane
On June 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I will try this. Thank you.
pruelpo
On June 8, 2011 at 6:39 am
Sure dude Sharifa. There is nothing to lose. Thank you for your time.
Steve Weitzner
On June 8, 2011 at 7:23 am
Great tips, TY for sharing this information.
pruelpo
On June 8, 2011 at 8:28 am
Welcome Steve. Happy to see you here. And thank you too for dropping by and commenting. See you around again.
Alyssa M.
On June 8, 2011 at 9:03 am
wow that’s alarming. now i will make use of your tips. gonna try this one on my next articles!!
pruelpo
On June 8, 2011 at 10:17 am
yes you can apply it too. thanks.
Apostle of Flamboyancy
On June 11, 2011 at 1:20 am
Helpful information thanks for sharing..
please check my article
http://authspot.com/poetry/eternal-confessions/
and leave your valuable comments
pruelpo
On June 11, 2011 at 5:26 am
Thanks for stopping by dude Apostle and commenting. Yes. I will check it out the link as soon as possible.
tenraj
On August 17, 2011 at 10:51 pm
great information… thanks.
pruelpo
On August 18, 2011 at 4:15 am
@Tenraj welcome friend – you also try using your username as one of your tags. It works!
Safa
On February 6, 2012 at 11:01 am
Good thinking. very clever. enjoyed reading this!