A word of Caution for the Submit Free Fans

If you have been online for as long as I have and have been trying to get as many subscriptions as you can from some of your favorites and not-so-favorites sites, then you are probably experiencing a barrage of spam mails. Almost everyone on the web has realized that people do not want to pay for services on the web. So they have adapted to the needs of their clients and started to offer supposedly free content. All they may ask in return is for you to submit free subscription emails to send you the content. Unaware to many people, their email addresses have just started a long journey that may revolve among thousands if not millions of advertisers who will try to sell them virtually anything that can be sold by todays standards.

Submit free content is another catching phrase that is being used by many sites to lure people into thinking that they may get a free space to showcase their skills and expose them to the world of journalism. If you have been trying to get a cut for some time, it may be especially tempting to fall for this bait. The truth is, there is nothing like free on the web, in the practical sense of the word, if you ask me. What might appear to be free content will always come around. It may come in form of web masters having an email address from where to launch their advertising campaigns, they may sell your email address to malicious spammers and a host of other things. A submit free offer is therefore something to think about, not twice but thrice. After all, ask yourself, if the content is free, what is the need for my email address? Why am I expected to give out my email address for free content? You do not have to go far to get the gist of what I am trying to put across.

On the other hand, there are other submit free content sites that may offer you limited exposure and that may help to boost you in the vast competitive web. However, this may sometimes come at a price. Some websites will ask that you offer to provide content but not keep its copyright. Once you do that, you are not authorized to post the content to another website. It remains the sole property of the first site you sold it to. The point is, whenever it is that you come across a website that is labeled submit free, think thrice and this will save you a lot of heartaches later on.