How To Obtain Free Article Content

Obtaining Free Article Content

Some web designers and blog masters try to use content or reports from free article directories to entice visitors to their blog or website in order to create revenue. This happens mostly to those who have recently started working with affiliate links for several companies but are low on funds. They grab these articles to build small niche sites and blogs, then seek visitors for their site in hopes of creating a little money.

This can sometimes seem to be the easiest option for the new people who are operating on a tight budget, but it is not the way to effectively create your website content or build a revenue. There are several reasons why this is detrimental to your site income building efforts.

The 1st problem is Search Engines

Search engines have change recently. In the good old days you could use any article, slap on an introduction paragraph and a closing paragraph and you had unique content. Not any more. The search engines get smarter as we publishers try to get around them.

Then we tried to use article spinners that would change the adjectives, adverbs some nouns and pronouns in order to make unique content. The problem with those softwares were they made the article unreadable! No duplicate content because no one would ever write that way!

Search engines give no glory to duplicate content. In fact if your site is all duplicate (other peoples) content, the search engines will blacklist your site never showing it in the results pages.

Decent rankings in the search engines are absolutely necessary to get free visitors to your website or blog so they will be able to click your affiliate links, adsense ads or pay per lead advertisements. You can't make money without traffic. Pursuing the search engines good graces of your site, in order to eventually be ranking high enough in result pages to get free customers, should be your highest priority.

Writing articles that are unique and interesting will get you kudos' from the SE's. They reward good content. They want to give the user a good experience while using their service. The better your content, the more often they will show your site in the results. New content ranks well also. If you have out of date articles on your site, the SE's will know it's old and not reward you either.

The 2nd problem is getting visitors clicking on something

Well written articles show the reader that you are an expert in your field. If they have seen the same article somewhere else, you have just lost their trust in you. People want to learn from others they feel are knowledgeable in the subject.

If you are using poorly written articles from the freebie directory, they will not be in "your language". Meaning that if you have written a few of your own articles on the site and have some others by someone else, the articles will not "sound" like you wrote them.

If your articles were written by others, you can be exposed as a publisher who doesn't really know the subject they are talking about. Therefore they will not trust your product endorsements. This will greatly reduce the quantity of site visitors that would be willing and eager to click through on you ads.

The 3rd problem is the Author's Bylines

Articles that are written by others and placed in the directories are free to use on your site as long as you leave the author's resource box or bylines intact. Great for the writer when you put his link on your site, not so good for you when the visitor you worked so hard to get simply clicks of your site with the author's link.

Yes, you must leave the byline in, it is against copyright laws to "use" someone else's content without giving them the credit. They can copy and paste the article into the search box of Google and it will come up if it's on your site. Busted.

Considering all these problems, it just isn't worth using the free article directories for all of your content. Can you use a few pre written articles on your site? Yes, if the area of their expertise is something beyond yours (and your readers will know it), by all means use an experts article in addition to yours for a more enhanced experience for your regular readers.

Sometimes I will use an experts article written about a technical issue to compliment my recommendation in one of my blogs.

Article directories are a good place for ideas about something to write about, just be sure not to plagiarize it. It is and will always be better to create your own content. If you need content in an area your not familiar with and cannot afford to have articles written for you, it's time to do your own research. Read some magazines on the subject, check out any special reports, look through college essays online. Read any white papers you can find in the Magazine's business section. Harder but worth the effort.

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