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achiever
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:44 pm
Post subject: Content is KING - What are you using to add content daily?
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I am trying to figure out the best way for adding fresh content to my website daily.
What methods are you using for adding fresh content daily?
Just let me know what methods I can use to add more content to my site, my site is starving for fresh content.
Don't be modest, give me all the methods you are using out there even if it's a very costy option.
Do you think those methods are affordable and doable for newbies?
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Hello Alex,
Beside I write the contents by myself, I use articles from article directories and articles from infogoround.com.
Sincerely,
Heris
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:52 am
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A programmer friend of mine takes many of his incoming support requests, and turns the answers in to posts for his blog.
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Some people are even crafty enough to get others to create most of the content for them. Can you think of a way?
Just a thought,
Charlie.
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:13 pm
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| Charlie wrote: | | Some people are even crafty enough to get others to create most of the content for them. Can you think of a way? |
Hmm. I'll have to read back through my 1,000+ posts on this board and see if I can find the answer to that one Charlie.
But I can tell you this now, if I find the culprit behind this scheme, I'm going to make him handle snakes while he walks down the beach in front of scantily clad Australians!
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Some people might claim that if you have two friends you can start a forum. 
You might find it easier just to set yourself a goal of writing one article a day.
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On another forum in a discussion similar to this one, I posted what turned out to be rhetorical questions/comments since no one responded. Here's a repeat.
I have 15+ years experience in a particular industry - let's say it's the widgets industry. I have a site about widgets and I've written a number of articles for the site based on my own knowledge and experience.
I don't have enough time to address all the article topics on my list, so I hired some writers to produce articles for me. During the process, I learned a bit about some of the writers. There was the college student churning out articles for extra cash, the single mom who would write on almost any topic in the evenings after her children were in bed, etc.
They delivered keyword rich articles that were for the most part factually correct. However, the depth and usefulness of the articles were suspect at times. That's probably based on their lack of knowledge of the subject areas. It's like an advanced placement high school English class given a writing assignment pop quiz. They can produce some interesting reading, but do you really want to base important decisions on the information presented?
This made me wonder what will happen to search engine results when there are a few hundred or a few thousand people like me hiring out multiple articles per day on widgets, solar energy, gardening, etc. Then add in all the auto generated articles produced solely for search engine placement and/or AdSense pages.
Are we creating a situation where we will collectively render search engine results frustratingly useless? For some searches, I'm already skipping past the first 2-4 pages of results to find the really useful information. The first few pages aren't necessarily good information, just pages generated by people with knowledge of how to get good search engine positioning.
And what happens if, for example, Google loads up on these article pages in their search results, and then someone comes along and figures out how to keep them out of the search results? Will the new search engine quickly become the resource of choice for searchers causing Google to become a has been?
It's something to consider. At a minimum, it's important not to put all one's eggs in one basket.
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| Bobby wrote: | | They delivered keyword rich articles that were for the most part factually correct. However, the depth and usefulness of the articles were suspect at times. |
If you've chosen a topic in which already have wide knowledge, one option is to quickly rewrite the articles where necessary, to correct errors, add a bit a personality, add personal anecdotes, etc.
I find it's usually much easier and quicker to improve someone else's article than to do all the thinking, research and writing myself.
| Quote: | | This made me wonder what will happen to search engine results when there are a few hundred or a few thousand people like me hiring out multiple articles per day on widgets, solar energy, gardening, etc. Then add in all the auto generated articles produced solely for search engine placement and/or AdSense pages. |
To that scary list, you can add stolen content - all the publishers who are simply stealing material and publishing as their own.
| Quote: | | Are we creating a situation where we will collectively render search engine results frustratingly useless? |
It's a strong possibility. Whatever happens, it's inevitable that it's going to get more and more difficult to win the search engine wars. I think it's one of the reasons why Google seems to be placing more and more emphasis on old, well established, large sites with thousands of links to them.
You may be able to protect your future search engine success by concentrating your efforts on building that kind of site. The vast majority of scammers, spammers, thieves, junk builders and mediocre site builders won't have the energy or persistence to compete with you.
Better still, try to protect your future by getting traffic in a variety of ways, not just from free search engines.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:43 am
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I use the rss feed from my own blog to add fresh content on a number of other sites. I'm doing this using the free tools at http://feeddigest.com
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:18 pm
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | | You may be able to protect your future search engine success by concentrating your efforts on building that kind of site. (a large authority site) |
It does make sense that being an expert will be increasingly important, and the only way to be an expert is to focus on one thing.
Dedicating all your time to one site in the hopes of search engine success is kind of a risky all the eggs in one basket strategy though. You know, it takes years to create a large old site, and who knows what the engines will favor by then.
One way around this might be to reverse some usual assumptions.
Instead of thinking of our mailing list as being a complement to our site, we could think of the site as being the servant to the list.
In other words, the number one goal of the site is to build the list.
This sounds obvious, but when you think of it, we currently spend zillions of hours agonizing over SEO, and then we slap our sign up form on to a page in 10 minutes and move on. Or we don't even have a list.
Allan could probably take his entire site off the Net altogether, and still make a decent living off his list. That's a nice position to be in.
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| Phil Tanny wrote: | | Allan could probably take his entire site off the Net altogether, and still make a decent living off his list. That's a nice position to be in. |
I have more than one list.
I have separate lists for AssociatePrograms.com, PayPerClickSearchEngines.com, LifetimeCommissions.com, KeywordWorkshop.com, and other niche sites.
You're dead right. I should be doing much more to build those lists.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:22 pm
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It might be an interesting case study for you to start one of your new projects from scratch and build it entirely around the list.
It seems a lot of folks are getting clobbered in the SERPs these days and might be receptive to tutorials that are pitched as, "Liberate Yourself From The Search Engines!"
It seems we all agree that winning the SERPs wars will get harder and harder for most folks, so perhaps you could lead us in to a list based future.
Email is no piece of cake these days either, for a variety of reasons. But building a list still has one compelling advantage over building a site.
I've fought a losing psychological battle with SEO for almost a decade now, I think mostly because I find search engine based business plans just too flaky. The maybe this, maybe that, here today, gone tomorrow quality of the process undermines my motivation.
As example, I'll happily pore over Perl books 18 hours a day for months, an arguably more complicated and frustrating task than SEO, because I know I'm getting somewhere, and know that what I learn today I can still use tomorrow. And I do this even though I know intellectually that Perl is probably a lot less profitable than running in the SEO rat race.
Anyway, list building provides a linear kind of feedback to those who need it. Last month I had 1,000 subscribers, this month I have 1500, next month I'll shoot for 2,000. It's a very simple, easy to understand, feedback loop.
You can put an exact number on your progress, and the number is generally more stable and reliable than the daily ups and downs of the SERPs.
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Thanks for the tips, it seems that you should opt for different options and don't just rely on only one.
As long as you keep it real and add actual content that will benefit your vistors.
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I can write my own articles. But I don't cause I can't find the time YET.
I'm currently relying on getting ezine articles and posting them on my site, replete with the resource box, of course. |
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