Free web site content?

[naitsirhc26]

What do you think ab;out free web content sites? Are they reliable? I was just wondering.

[chad1027]

I've used these and found them helpful

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I have two articles relating to filmmaking and I rank pretty well with 'em!

Reliable? Depends on how many sites syndicated the same article...

[edited by: trillianjedi at 8:48 pm (utc) on April 27, 2006]
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[monkeythumpa]

I have used the sites mentioned above. On one of my sites, most of the traffic is going to my original articles, but there is one article that somehow Google tapped me as the original that blows the rest away. And all this rising gas prices is just making more people use the serch term it ranks for.

So here is the bottom line. I use duplicate content to keep my site sticky. It fills in the holes in my subject matter that I don't have articles for. Every once and a while, if you are quick and lucky, Google will pick you up as the authoritative site for that piece of content. YOU WILL GET NO TRAFFIC IF YOUR SITE IS A MAJORITY OF DUPLICATE CONTENT. So pepper in the articles that are good (85% of them are garbage) and keep writing articles. They actually make good research for when you want to write an original article.

Now lets talk about turning the tables. Once your article has been up for a year and is well ranked in the search engines, submit it to these sites with 2 or 3 links (make sure one link goes back to the actual article) at the bottom pointing back to parts of your site. You should get picked up by a half dozen small sites in your subject matter.

Make sure it has been ranked for a year AND your site is good at SEO. Otherwise someone else could get ranked higher. Which I do to some of the articles I get.