How to Feed a Site with Hundreds of Articles

what is the best way so get content fast

[youngkeen]

i am looking at building a sight alot of the content would be written myself but is there ways of getting more content from affiliates and such? say like content on pushbikes? how could a gather up a large amount of content this way
appreciate any help tom

[grandpa]

I use Google News Alerts to get some content. It's free and on topic.

[JPWriter]

News feeds are not original content, I personally don't see how news feeds can help a site SE wise. I can see how it may be useful to visitors, but when they click the news feed they are taken to another site. how does this help you? I would focus on original content.

[Matt Probert]

am looking at building a sight alot of the content would be written myself but is there ways of getting more content from affiliates and such? say like content on pushbikes? how could a gather up a large amount of content this way

It's illegal, it's immoral, it's called plagiarism <bg>

Seriously though, it's not new, and it's not rare. If a work is out of copyright, then it's not even illegal - try antiquarian bookshops for out-of-copyright reference works.

Or you could write your own.

Or you could hire people to write them.

Matt

[Beagle]

...but is there ways of getting more content from affiliates and such? say like content on pushbikes?

Not sure what you mean by getting content "from affiliates." If you mean you are an affiliate of, say, a company that sells push bikes, check the operating agreement you signed and you'll very likely find that the company has some content you're allowed to use on your site (but there are also very likely limits on what you can use, so read the agreement).

If you mean something else, afraid I can't help.

[mixer28]

You can get articles you can use on your site from article syndication websites or use press releases.

I suggest articles might be better as they are more content rich.

You can use as many as you wish as long as you keep author credits in tact.

There are lots of these sites but here are 4 that are pretty good

www.articlecity.com
www.article-emporium.com
www.articlesfactory.com
www.goarticles.com

Hope this helps

[alika]

Ask people to submit articles to you. Many websites do that as authors are constantly looking for sites who will publish their work. Just be selective as to what you publish (some are totally unrelated or some are pieces of crap). Also spell out the copyright issues - e.g. who owns what and what you will do with their articles.

[mmmwowmmm]

I just went to articlecity.com and found an article, copied a couple lines of text, googled it with quotations, and I got 77 hits - but only one hit was displaying, the one from articlecity.com

The other 76 you had to click "repeat the search with the omitted results included" in order to see them. I didn't test the other sites mentioned, but it's something to watch out for.

[DumpedbyG]

Ask people to submit articles to you

I was thinking of doing something like that on our site, but I would like some kind of interface that people have the ability to submit article and I can just edit and approve the articles.

Does anybody knows of tool/software where you can add such capability to a site?