I have a news website where I publish my own articles. Very often I receive e-mails from people who would like to use my articles on their website. Would you allow them to publish your articles?

They will include my website link and logo but I might lose visitors to my website. People who find my article on a different website will not want to read it again on my website. People might think that the other service is much better as it not only gets articles from other services but is more up to date. Usually this is competing services.

What do you think?
Another thing is the SEO. Will I benefit from it?

I would suggest a RSS news feed for your articles. The websites can then link to your news feed, which would link to your website.

I think it is ok for your articles to be duplicated as long as the original writer is acknowledged and there is a link to your site. You may even get new visitors from that link. Also, more backlinks = better SEO. ;)

I'd let them post a few (not too many!) of your articles. you're site would get more publicity and more backlinks...which helps search engine ranking and all that. I'd do an rss feed too.

I think it would be beneficial to allow them to use the articles.
(With your website link/logo attached to it)

Then, you can also release exclusives on your website.
So there are still certain articles people can only find there
:)

Ask them to include the following

Reproduced with permission from <YOUR URL>