Why Zimbio.com is not Safe for Bloggers ?

This seems to be an inappropriate topic but its true. I will tell you some facts which will justify my comment that Zimbio is not good, or rather its unsafe for professional bloggers.
Before we proceed just know something about Zimbio.com .

What is Zimbio.com ?

Zimbio.com attracts bloggers using the Livingly Media link at the bottom of their website. That link takes them to "http://www.livingly.com/for-bloggers/", where they tell bloggers that if they post their content on Zimbio then they will get a wider audience, more views, and free publicity. (New Bloggers can easily get into this trap)
However Zimbio have a lot of content of their own but now most of the content posted there is from different blogs or websites. I came to know about that when content of one of my websites is copied by some other website and then they posted it on Zimbio.com . It was a major setback for me as those links were diverting a lot of traffic that should have been to my blog. Those links easily get ranked on Zimbio as zimbio is a high-ranking website and search engines give preference to content available on it.

Some facts you should know about Zimbio

If you post your content on Zimbio, then it become Creative Common (CC). Professional bloggers know what Creative Commons Licence means. It means that now your content is not yours, any body can use it.
If you put your content on Zimbio, then search engines will crawl it first and then on your website. (Due to the better ranking of Zimbio). Thus they might consider your content as duplicate content (while it not). Search engines don't know that have created an account on Zimbio and yourself posting it there. Serious bloggers know the effect of duplicate content on SERP.
In short term you might get better traffic from Zimbio but in long term you will loose your ranking in search engines.

What Google says about Zimbio.com :

There is nothing better than google. Here is the link to diagnostic report of Google about Zimbio. Please read it.

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=zimbio.com/&hl=en
As this report says that malicious software were noticed on Zimbio. I will never suggest you to use zimbio.
If you want to protect your blog from getting copied must read my post : Find Websites Copying your content.

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