I’m wondering if anyone knows of a good source of quality content, preferably free but I would look at paid content. Looking for news articles, lifestyle, shopping, etc. I’ve done a Google search but do not really find anything that interests me. Any recommendations?
The best I can think of right now is content from article directories. It's not exactly "free" but I'm sure you will find a way to mix it / spin it somehow and make it unique. ezinearticles.com and the other good quality article directories have a lot of categories to choose content from.
Why not write it on your own, from your own perspective? That way, you know its content, quality and originality.
Depending on what you want you can use article sites such as ezine articles.com. Using this content though you must leave the links intact, but the content is good and it is free. Hope his helps Graeme
I would have to agree with the other guys here, ezine is a good place to go for high quality articles as they are all reviewed before they are allowed to go live on the site. It basically lets the article writers earn loads of links to their sites while you can use there content as you wish! However I would check the links on all the articles you post though because some of them can be really dodgy and ruin your search engine ranking positions if they are black hat sites!
Why don't you hire someone to write for you? The articles on ezinearticles are written by authors anyway, and I daresay if you look around you will get people who will write a 500 worder for $5 if its a bulk job.
Still the best resource is you, why don't create a unique content about your niche it is much more effective and competent.
Article directories will always be good, providing that you are willing to retain the backlink. However, two services that I have used that are paid but very affordable are Need An Article and The Content Authority. Both are around 5$ an article, and they are good quality as well.
there is no free quality content. If you really want quality content you should pay for it. However for article writing the fees are not expensive. You could get a very valuable article for $5 or so...
I'm sorry to say but there is no such thing as a quality content that is copied to another site and still remain quality for the new site.