| How to go about sourcing content for your sites. | | | | * Article City - |
| Well the most obvious but also the most time | | | | * Isnare - |
| consuming way to do this is to write the content | | | | If you're really serious about providing a "content rich" |
| yourself, although it's not nearly as hard as it sounds. | | | | website and don't want to do the writing yourself then |
| Do you realise that if you read 3 entire books on one | | | | there are 2 main ways that you can buy articles |
| subject you've pretty much set yourself up as an | | | | suitable for the niche(s) you've chosen. The first and |
| expert? By doing this chances are that you will know | | | | generally less expensive way (at least on a per article |
| more than 99% of the population, of course there will | | | | basis) is to join a Private Label Rights article |
| be some people out there who are extremely well | | | | membership site. There are quite a few of these and |
| educated on your subject (or niche) who have spent | | | | there is a great deal of variation amongst them. The |
| years studying it, you can't hope to compete with them | | | | general principle is that you pay a monthly membership |
| but don't let those few stop you getting started. | | | | fee, usually in the vicinity of $20-$50 a month and you'll |
| If you don't have the time or patience for that then | | | | get supplied with perhaps 50-200 articles a month. You |
| there's always the internet to turn to for research. | | | | are entitled to do anything you like with these articles, |
| Spend several hours carefully and selectively reading | | | | from using them exactly as is to rewriting as much or |
| up on your chosen niche, keeping bookmarks and | | | | as little as you want. Also these membership sites |
| taking notes and you'll be surprised at how much you'll | | | | usually restrict the number of members that can be a |
| know by the end of it. Remember that it is OK to use | | | | part of it at any one time. These membership |
| bits and pieces of other people's work as long as you | | | | restrictions can be quite low, less than a hundred to |
| don't copy large tracts of their work verbatim. You | | | | several hundred, so you need to be careful about |
| can always use a tool such as to check if your written | | | | exactly what you're paying for. Usually the price is a |
| work has likely infringed someone elses copywrite, if it | | | | trade-off between more-exclusive/more-expensive |
| has then just go back and make changes and keep | | | | and less-exclusive/less-expensive. Remember the |
| checking until your work is sufficiently unique. | | | | more memberships available from the site the more |
| A way that many people source their content is | | | | people are out there trying to compete with you with |
| through the free article directories. The terms of | | | | the same content. Of course you can rework the |
| service vary for each of the article directories so you | | | | content either manually or with the aid of software |
| need to check them before using them to ensure you | | | | andd thus try and keep your content unique that way. |
| comply. Basically you are allowed to reuse the content | | | | The final way that you can source content for your |
| on your own sites provided that you do not alter the | | | | site is to pay someone to write exclusively for you. |
| articles and leave all the links intact, including the | | | | This way you have more control and can guarantee |
| resource box for the author. This is a good and | | | | that your content is unique. A common price you can |
| perfectly legitimate way to build good quality content, | | | | expect to pay is around $5 per 500-1000 word article, |
| however you would do well to mix up the free articles | | | | however if you want quite a few articles you may be |
| with some content sourced from other places to help | | | | able to negotiate a lower rate with a writer. Some |
| your site be unique and different to other sites. After all | | | | good sites for finding a writer are: |
| with the number of internet marketers around these | | | | * - |
| days who knows how many people populate their | | | | * rent a coder - |
| sites with mostly free articles. Although nobody knows | | | | * eLance - |
| for sure how the Google duplicate content filter works | | | | Be careful to check out the credentials of each writer |
| you are well advised to not rely solely on the article | | | | that gives you a quote. Also be aware that and rent a |
| directories as this will also provide a richer experience | | | | coder give you the option of escrow payments giving |
| for your site visitors. Some of the better article | | | | you a greater level of safety in terms of not paying |
| directories are: | | | | when the writer does not deliver what you wanted. |
| * GoArticles - | | | | In the next article I will discuss the importance of adding |
| * Ezine Articles - | | | | dynamic content to your websites. |