I believe that content is the top most requirements for success in Internet Marketing. In my previous thread at: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thr...ith-internet-marketing.2699464/#post-18831965 I told why I believe so. But can any one write unique content and lots of content one’s own self? Yes everyone can write unique contents and create own product one’s own self. PLEASE DON’T read UNIQUE as EXPERT. Everyone may not write expert content but can write unique content one’s own self. There are two questions arise in our mind when we try to write own content first time. [1] Is my English good enough to write? [2] What will I write about? You are unique so your English is also unique. You are not going to write a piece of literary work. You are going to communicate with your readers. So the quality of your English doesn’t matter most. And you can use the free software Ginger to check and rectify your spelling and grammatical mistakes automatically. So your English skill is not an issue rather your English will make your article 100% unique. What will you write about? It was a big question to me also in the beginning. As I am from India and in India paying with Paypal is a big issue I could not always buy articles. It was a challenge to me. I was desperate to write my own contents, though I was aware of the facts that my English was poor and I had no article topic ideas. I suddenly solved it myself. Let me share with you the story. I bought an online service of creating Product Review Scripts automatically for creating a YouTube video. I intentionally don’t want to name that service because I am not going to advocate that in this article. When I tried that first time I was a little bit embarrassed. As I didn’t have all the info ready to put in that automation tool. To use that tool I bought the WSO for which I was trying to create a Product Review Video. I was not at all interested in that product yet I was trying to promote that as an affiliate as that was then a hot cake. I read the sales letter of that product seriously, read the user guide of the product with each and every minute detail and started applying all the techniques it taught, not because I got interested in that, only because I was serious to promote that. When I was trying that WSO to test I took notes also. When I finished testing that WSO and taking notes, I suddenly discovered that I got lot many points to discuss in more details. I learned how to get unique content topic ideas. I believe you can get your own unique content topic ideas if you do the same. And it will ultimately pay you a big.
I think that whether the content is unique or not, is not going to matter to the reader, if they see no value in reading the content. The focus should be on providing value to the reader. Value will vary depending on what the aim of the content is (is the aim to entertain or inform or teach etc.). Think of it this way, if your site visitors doesn't read your content (or stops after the first few lines), will it matter to the reader whether the content they ignored was unique or not. That's why I still see value in using syndicated content, because it's a way of providing readers with valuable content, without having to create that content yourself. Search Engines may look for uniqueness of content, but readers look for value. In the end, each site owner and blogger has to decide who they're creating content for.
I think that balancivity nailed it. While you may get traffic from search engine algorithms based solely upon uniqueness, what is going to convert your visitors into buyers/clickers/etc. and keep them coming back will be by providing something that they find valuable. Let me give you a personal example. I have had the same personal email address since 1995. Can you imagine how many email newsletters and alerts I have signed up for in those 19 years? I get hundreds and hundreds of emails every day to that one inbox. I delete 95% of the newsletters that arrive without opening them. A few, however, I open immediately and read in their entirety. One of them I may save for weeks or months, in fact. It is solely because I get great value from that small number of newsletters. I also have great loyalty to those newsletters because of the value that I have received from them and try to help them out with clicks or purchases or donations when the opportunity arises. I actually dislike using the term "content" in discussions about acquiring customers (online or offline.) It makes it sound like one piece of content is interchangeable with another piece of content and that is simply not the case if you are trying to market to humans. Instead, I prefer to discuss what value I can provide to a prospect to cause us to have a business relationship. The value may be in the form of written, spoken, video or other forms of communication or it could be something tangible (e.g., a free sample.) Thinking in those terms make much more sense to me instead of worrying about the uniqueness of content, quite frankly.
Completely agree with jrbiz. If the uniqueness of content was the only factor worthy of consideration, then article spinners would be all the rage to this day! Fact of the matter is, it's pointless having unique content if you don't provide real value to your readers. Real valued content will be shared socially, will be linked to & shared. This will provide real benefit in terms of your search engine rankings & getting your site real, quality traffic. Az
Content is the corner stone of all good websites but there's far more needed than that to be a success. Btw OP you're setting yourself up for a whole lot of legal trouble by having the world Google in your domain. That's someone elses brand and you don't have permission to use it I'm 110% sure.