To be honest I am a poor witter so I have a witter for my website. Baskcily I furnish he with a topic and research on the topic and she writes a 500 word article. The price is good but I want a blog to build traffic fir my website. Of course this means a lot more content for posting on my blog. I do not get ernought articles for my website to put them as post on my blog even once a day. It is my understanding I need to post something at least once a day in order to have an effective blog with creditability.. In my effort to solve this problem since my witter charges by the word, how many words is an average post? If I give someone credit and a link to their site can I post other peoples articles and still have creditability? Are there any other solutions to the problem??
First off...it is not the quantity of content, it is the quality. Frequent posting can mean once a day, or once a week, but whatever it is, it needs to be consistent. You should have as many words as it takes to make and complete your point..5000 words of crap will do you o good when it comes to keeping readers coming back. No! You cannot post other peoples articles in full without their permission...you can refer to them and use them as a reference...and yes you should give credit. I use RSS feeds as supplemental information on my side bars, but copying an article will do you no good...will not help your credibility, and you run a great risk of your pages being sandbagged into supplemental results by Google. The only solution to your problem is to take it seriously, and write about something that you enjoy..that way it won't seem like work, and your expertise will come across in all areas of the blog, and attract readers. JMO
A part of me is starting to believe that word count matters. Blog #1 - Short articles but frequently posted throughout the day. Blog #2 - One article a day, but the article is three times as long as my posts on Blog #1. Blog #2 is consistently getting on the first page of Google. Blog #1 hardly ever gets ranked that high. (By the way, I'm doing the same amount and type of marketing for both.)
I think word count matters somewhat. If you write only a paragraph or two, how can Google believe they should send a visitor to you? How much information can you really provide with so little content? If you are just pointing something out with a short note, why should Google not just send them to the place you are pointing out?
I can clearly see why you needed to hire a writer for your blog. Your spelling needs to be checked before you submit your articles. You can check more popular blogs to get a good idea of what works best with blogs. There's also "free" articles that you can copy and/or get insight to create your own articles with.
In the land of Utopia, this is what would happen to content stealers. But in reality, how would Google know that Person B is stealing from Person A unless maybe Person A submits the blog as an article to a credible article site with a backlink to his site, confirming it was indeed him who originally wrote it?