I'm looking for ideas on how to add content to my site. I'm mainly looking at article type content at the moment. I have some people writing articles for me, but at a rate of U$5-U$15 per article I will go bankrupt before I make even a slight dent in the content requirements. I'm not much of a creative writer so I'm pretty much out of the question. I know that there are article spinners and rewriters out there so I could take the 5000 article DB, run it through a script and have something slightly different. So even if by some miracle it fools google, these articles are going to be of zero value to my real visitors. I really need some ideas on how to get myself out of this jam. Thanks
I write my own articles all the time, so maybe I'm a little biased. But perhaps you could take SOME articles from ezinearticles.com or perhaps some RSS feeds, just to give your visitors quality content?
I've seen most of the article spinners, etc. out there and for my money, they're crap. The articles suck and do not make any sense most of the time. Article spinners and such are meant to please search bots, not humans. If you want humans to keep coming back to your site, keep on posting the original content. You might even try taking a few creative writing courses to help you with your own writing. TxDon
10 good unique articles is a good start. Make sure those 10 count (assuming you have 100 dollars to spare). Have them on the basic issues around your site and if you can find important/popular subjects in your niche that nobody else has covered well, go for those first. A good ten page site is linkable, so once you have that, start promoting it (well). After that you can just start reinvesting your income into more quality articles, until you've got a decent visitor number... then the percentage of money that goes back into the site can go down, so you add about one good article a week or something. You won't go bankrupt over that.
I use instant article wizard to research article topics and then rewrite them. It takes some time to rewrite them but at least it's rather unique and much cheaper.
I agree with the article spinners sucking. Yes search engines might get fooled but no human will keep comming back. My problem is that yes maybe I can sneak a few articles in there but if someone actually goes and reads that particular one, well I've lost him/her
One of the things you might try doing is using the free articles but be very selective. Remember that most of them require you to leave the links in tact so you want to be sure the site that is being referenced is something you really want your visitors to see. The fact that you have the article on your site is an endorsement of sorts. What I usually do after I have picked out the quality articles and quality sites, I write a summary or a review of the article at the top of the page. This allows the page to be considered unique content, thereby avoiding the duplicate content issue. Plus you have actually provided a service to your users. They have your honest opionion on the issue and are able to read more on the subject. The last thing I do is make sure the link opens in a new window. This allows the user to stay on your site.
Article writing is not a gift. It is a SKILL that you can learn. Go find free reports on how to make your articles interesting, how to write and so on.
I know people have a bad view of article spinning, but I have spun a few in my days for people, and they always are as readable as the original. Perhaps that is why I make good money spinning.... The only thing I do not like about article spinning is the fact the article all sound alike to a degree. Article spinning software isn't nice though - tried it once... only once. As for article, there are many free ones out there if you do not care about original content. There are also places like Constant Content where you can purchase articles for fairly cheap. Regards and good luck, Rosey
I already looked at the constant content guys but they charge in the region of U$30-50 for things people here charge U$5-U$10 for .... and the quality is not that much diffrent.
Even if we don't care about the content being original, search engines do. There are two options: Although I would personally never use an article spinner for content, since you need a whole lot of articles written, use it and rewrite the articles to sound more original. Rewriting shouldn't really take too long, atleast you are spared the time you would have spent on research. Alternatively, there are several free PLR sites where you get articles or e-books free. Find an e-book related to your niche, turn it into articles, rewrite a bit, and you are on your way. This should certainly be better than spinning. Sometimes, when we are in a situation, we do need to take charge and do stuff that we may not otherwise attempt. So, get going... All the best with your articles.
The suggestion of going to ezinearticles.com is fine but that would mean you would ahve to include a lot of lniks potentially taking people out of your site. i assume that this is not what you want to do. If price is an issue. You could try going to someone with a bigger batch requirement. I.E. if you are currently offering a writer 15 jobs you'll get a certain price, offer the same writer 500 and you will get a much lower quote. Have you already tried this?
Problem here is that I can afford a U$100 project every so often, unfortunatelly a 500 article project will cost anywhere U$2,500 and U$7500. That whole range is way out of my cost region right now.
Because unless they're PLR articles, "rewriting" free articles (such as from article directories) and then claiming authorship of the resulting work is actually illegal. All you can legally do is write about the same idea in a 100% unique way (meaning if you used their facts and figures and stats, you'd still have to cite them as the source for that, even if you reworded it).
That's also a problem that I have thought about. I don't want to get the site all busy and then find out that I have 50 people claiming copyright infringments for content.