Hi Lisa!
Thanks for your answer.
My niche is competitive but not in the money making or website stuff.
The one thing that is still confusing me is how can more than one website owner put up the article that I submitted and not be penalyzed from google for duplicate content?
The other thing that is racking my brain---(-lol) is should the article always be directly related to my niche- or can it be somewhat related to it?
For example- If I have my site on birthdays for children can my article be about making life easier to take care of children while working? The article would be somewhat related to my website in the sense that they both talk about children but not directly related.
What do you think?