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by monere
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Hello warriors

Do you happen to know how I can get some content for my websites without using articles from article directories and without paying a single dime for it?

I have several sites in various niches and since I am at the beginning with this IM thing and I am just starting out building my "empire of niche blogs" I wouldn't want to go to article directories and post those articles with author bio and stuff. I have nothing against providing backlinks to those who give me articles to post on my websites, but I always disliked the author bios (I don't know why). If anything, I will provide the backlink in content, as it's normal (well, as it appears normal to me lol)

I am looking for a few articles a month (2-3 to 10, definitely not more) for each site, on the topics of my websites (docking stations, hydroponic gardening, surround sound, and distance learning) that are high quality, but I don't know where to look for.

I tried adding my sites to FreeTrafficSystem but in one month I only received 2 articles (that's total, not for each site) and they were both low quality (unreadable) so I had to remove them. My websites are PR 0 only, but they're not low quality either (ie. filled with Adsense ads and spun, crappy content that makes no sense).

Anyway, if any of you knows of such network that offer lots of quality and relevant content for publishing on their clients' sites, please share! I really have no idea where to look for these networks.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    How about writing the articles yourself? From your post, you appear to be a competent writer, which will put you miles ahead of many of writers for hire who use English as a second language.

    There is an enormous satisfaction in looking at your website and knowing it really is all your own work ...
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    • Profile picture of the author christopher s
      If you're willing to link out of the article back to the original writer's website, you can probably find lots of people to write unique articles for you.

      I'd find some sites related to your niches and shoot them an email.

      HTH,

      -Chris
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      • Profile picture of the author monere
        Originally Posted by christopher s View Post

        If you're willing to link out of the article back to the original writer's website, you can probably find lots of people to write unique articles for you.

        I'd find some sites related to your niches and shoot them an email.

        HTH,

        -Chris
        Theoretically you are right, but practically not

        I am one single guy doing everything on my websites (setting up Wordpress, installing the plugins, adding the content, tweaking and designing the site). I have no team to help me, not even money to outsource things. Currently those 4 websites I have don't even bring $100/month together, and I do need to take them to the top of Google to make me some decent money before I can scale things up.

        But to get them there, I must keep them updated with fresh content (which is why I opened this thread), then do the backlinking, social media, press releases (which I have no clue how to do them and must learn how they work by the way). And on top of these things I also must update myself and my sites with the always-changing Google algorithm updates, read and test the various and latest news in our industry, take care of my life, and what not?

        How can I do all these things alone?

        No, I really need to take the content and backlinking parts of the business out of the way, that's for sure.
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        • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
          Originally Posted by monere View Post

          Theoretically you are right, but practically not

          I am one single guy doing everything on my websites (setting up Wordpress, installing the plugins, adding the content, tweaking and designing the site). I have no team to help me, not even money to outsource things. Currently those 4 websites I have don't even bring $100/month together, and I do need to take them to the top of Google to make me some decent money before I can scale things up.

          But to get them there, I must keep them updated with fresh content (which is why I opened this thread), then do the backlinking, social media, press releases (which I have no clue how to do them and must learn how they work by the way). And on top of these things I also must update myself and my sites with the always-changing Google algorithm updates, read and test the various and latest news in our industry, take care of my life, and what not?

          How can I do all these things alone?

          No, I really need to take the content and backlinking parts of the business out of the way, that's for sure.
          All you need to do is set up a work schedule and stick to it.

          I run a number of money-making blogs (plus my personal IM blog), completely on my own, right down to creating them, writing every word on them and promoting them. Of course it's time consuming, anyone attempting to break into internet marketing thinking it won't involve a lot of long, hard work is delusional. Especially at the beginning.
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          • Profile picture of the author monere
            Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

            All you need to do is set up a work schedule and stick to it.

            I run a number of money-making blogs (plus my personal IM blog), completely on my own, right down to creating them, writing every word on them and promoting them. Of course it's time consuming, anyone attempting to break into internet marketing thinking it won't involve a lot of long, hard work is delusional. Especially at the beginning.
            Really??

            Something is not right here. I thought that top internet marketers outsource everything to get to those 6-7 figures a month. If you're doing everything on your own and considering that you can't make a 6 figure a month with only one niche blog, then you probably won't make a killing in IM

            I don't know what to think anymore
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            • Profile picture of the author sparrow
              Originally Posted by monere View Post

              Really??

              Something is not right here. I thought that top internet marketers outsource everything to get to those 6-7 figures a month. If you're doing everything on your own and considering that you can't make a 6 figure a month with only one niche blog, then you probably won't make a killing in IM

              I don't know what to think anymore
              I am going to give you my 2cents about this.

              I find what you are trying to do is what most newbies are trying to do and fail.

              First start with one blog/website. Add some content, get it found
              keep a very close eye on seeing if visitors are coming and continue to do this till you have a steady flow of visitors.

              Once you see visitors coming you can bet you are ranked in the search engine, your stats will show how they are finding you etc...

              Then work on the next blog/website and so forth. But work on getting one site successful at a time. Don't spread your resources thin, instead focus.

              I wonder if you even have one website giving you a flow of of visitors.

              I too think you bit off more than you can chew, I have worked with a lot of people and once I get them to settle down and do the fundamentals they started seeing results.

              Not a get rich quick method but it is slow and easy and works.

              As for your content if you did some quick looks around especially in the public domain area I think you will find all you want.

              Do yourself a favor and find yourself some evergreen material from an old book store using public domain stuff.

              But all of this requires you to take some time to do it right.

              Just my 2cents, my observation is you are trying to do too much in different directions all at once.

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              • Profile picture of the author monere
                Originally Posted by sparrow View Post

                I am going to give you my 2cents about this.

                I find what you are trying to do is what most newbies are trying to do and fail.

                First start with one blog/website. Add some content, get it found
                keep a very close eye on seeing if visitors are coming and continue to do this till you have a steady flow of visitors.

                Once you see visitors coming you can bet you are ranked in the search engine, your stats will show how they are finding you etc...

                Then work on the next blog/website and so forth. But work on getting one site successful at a time. Don't spread your resources thin, instead focus.

                I wonder if you even have one website giving you a flow of of visitors.

                I too think you bit off more than you can chew, I have worked with a lot of people and once I get them to settle down and do the fundamentals they started seeing results.

                Not a get rich quick method but it is slow and easy and works.

                As for your content if you did some quick looks around especially in the public domain area I think you will find all you want.

                Do yourself a favor and find yourself some evergreen material from an old book store using public domain stuff.

                But all of this requires you to take some time to do it right.

                Just my 2cents, my observation is you are trying to do too much in different directions all at once.

                Ed
                What do you mean "public domain"? What is that?
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                • Profile picture of the author mounds
                  Don't forget about the barter system.

                  *Disclaimer: This is a possible future scenario. I don't currently need another site*

                  If I offered you some free content, would you set up my website for me? You despise writing, I despise setting up sites.

                  That's an actionable plan right there: Offer to set up sites and other services for freelance writers, in exchange for free content. I'll be looking for a web designer who needs content, when the time comes.

                  -Tim
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                  • Profile picture of the author monere
                    Originally Posted by mounds View Post

                    Don't forget about the barter system.

                    *Disclaimer: This is a possible future scenario. I don't currently need another site*

                    If I offered you some free content, would you set up my website for me? You despise writing, I despise setting up sites.

                    That's an actionable plan right there: Offer to set up sites and other services for freelance writers, in exchange for free content. I'll be looking for a web designer who needs content, when the time comes.

                    -Tim
                    I won't. As a matter of fact, that kind of system I am just looking for. Anyway, I think I found something

                    Thanks
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                    • Profile picture of the author infomaniacs
                      Hi

                      have you had a look at Login Form - My Blog Guest I have had a few decent articles written for me from here, and have also written for other people.

                      check it out, you can specify exactly what you want.

                      cheers
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                      • Profile picture of the author monere
                        Originally Posted by infomaniacs View Post

                        Hi

                        have you had a look at Login Form - My Blog Guest I have had a few decent articles written for me from here, and have also written for other people.

                        check it out, you can specify exactly what you want.

                        cheers
                        Angela
                        I have. I even signed up for MyBlogGuest and BloggerLinkUp, as per Nicole's suggestions.

                        I even created a campaign in BLU and now I am waiting for the results to check them out. I will take a closer look at MBG as well, just a bit later as right now I need to do something else.

                        Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

      How about writing the articles yourself? From your post, you appear to be a competent writer, which will put you miles ahead of many of writers for hire who use English as a second language.

      There is an enormous satisfaction in looking at your website and knowing it really is all your own work ...
      Surprisingly as it may seem, I hate writing. I remember I enjoyed writing as an adolescent (that's 15 years ago) but with time, things I enjoyed doing I hate nowadays (including writing).

      Besides, I have no clue about all the topics I am about to create blogs on. I do have about 10-15 quality articles (PLR) that come with each blog I purchase, but that's about all. And I do need to keep the sites updated with fresh content, otherwise .... well, otherwise big G comes and take me by ears
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  • Profile picture of the author RHert
    Search blogs. Many of the writers of those blogs will happily give you an article for a backlink to their site.
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by RHert View Post

      Search blogs. Many of the writers of those blogs will happily give you an article for a backlink to their site.
      That would be a good idea and I though of it as well. It's just that it is time consuming, especially when you have more than 1 website/business to take care of (like in my case at the moment)

      I can't squeeze this little activity in too, through the other daily tasks (and I do have a lot of them to handle each day)

      But anyway, thanks for the tip
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    I write my own content for ALL of my websites, takes a lot of time, but it is worth it in the end.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Surprisingly as it may seem, I hate writing. I remember I enjoyed writing as an adolescent (that's 15 years ago) but with time, things I enjoyed doing I hate nowadays (including writing).

      Besides, I have no clue about all the topics I am about to create blogs on.
      That's a bad mindset. Any work you do online or offline may have some areas that you don't "enjoy" doing but where work must be done to succeed.

      You can write articles yourself or you can hire writers on freelance sites or from here to write them for you for a fee.

      You can use articles from directories and post the bio as required. It's irrelevant whether you "like" bios or not. You can ask people if they want to write in exchange for a link but I don't think that's going to work for brand new, unranked niche sites. That's nothing but writing for free as there is no benefit to the contributor.

      You are building sites without knowing anything about the topics of the sites so clearly your plan is to slap up a bunch of sites and make money. In my experience, that's not a good plan.

      There is TIME and MONEY. Everything you do online requires spending money to save time or spending time to save money. There is no other formula that works.

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      • Profile picture of the author monere
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        That's a bad mindset. Any work you do online or offline may have some areas that you don't "enjoy" doing but where work must be done to succeed.

        You can write articles yourself or you can hire writers on freelance sites or from here to write them for you for a fee.

        You can use articles from directories and post the bio as required. It's irrelevant whether you "like" bios or not. You can ask people if they want to write in exchange for a link but I don't think that's going to work for brand new, unranked niche sites. That's nothing but writing for free as there is no benefit to the contributor.

        You are building sites without knowing anything about the topics of the sites so clearly your plan is to slap up a bunch of sites and make money. In my experience, that's not a good plan.

        There is TIME and MONEY. Everything you do online requires spending money to save time or spending time to save money. There is no other formula that works.

        kay
        There really must be networks that accept publishers to post content on their websites in exchange for backlinks. There has to be, it's just that I don't know of any of them. I told you that I tried with FTS, but that seems to take forever to get a decent article.

        That's why I opened this thread, to see what people are doing to solve this boring and tedious (in my case) content creation/publishing.

        I could use articles from article directories, yes. There are WP plugins that automatically post articles and so I could install one such plugin and let it go, but then I would go where you said I am going (ie ... so clearly your plan is to slap up a bunch of sites and make money) And that's not my plan.

        My plan is to slap a bunch of sites, yes (to create my own blogs empire, like I mentioned earlier) but the reason I am having so many difficulties is because I care about the quality of the sites I "slap". If I didn't care, I would've bought a cheap script that automatically creates crappy sites and then throw a bunch of backlinks to them and hope they would stick and make money, not caring whether they provide any value/benefit to the visitors or not.

        But that's not me, hence the problems I am having trying to make everything as perfect as possible (if perfection even exists)
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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          There really must be networks that accept publishers to post content on their websites in exchange for backlinks. There has to be, it's just that I don't know of any of them. I told you that I tried with FTS, but that seems to take forever to get a decent article.
          Must there be??? Gee, if I'd known that I wouldn't have had to write thousands of pages of content in the past 10-11 years. Shucky darn.
          I'm not putting you down - I'm giving you a reality check. Just because you want a free, easy content method to fill your sites doesn't mean there is such an animal.

          There are ways but you are discounting most of them because they aren't quite what you want. It would be great if you could have unique, free content well targeted to your blogs keywords. It would be great if I were born rich but that didn't happen, either.

          There are guest posts - but most marketers aren't going to provide unique articles for an unranked site.

          There are programs such as BuildMyRank but you have to pay for them and you still have to do writing yourself, too.

          You are insisting on something that doesn't exist. There are ways to get what you want but each has some strings or money attached to it. Your problem is you want it all for free - and networks where people are exchanging good articles for links are NOT free.

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          • Profile picture of the author monere
            Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

            Must there be??? Gee, if I'd known that I wouldn't have had to write thousands of pages of content in the past 10-11 years. Shucky darn.
            I'm not putting you down - I'm giving you a reality check. Just because you want a free, easy content method to fill your sites doesn't mean there is such an animal.

            There are ways but you are discounting most of them because they aren't quite what you want. It would be great if you could have unique, free content well targeted to your blogs keywords. It would be great if I were born rich but that didn't happen, either.

            There are guest posts - but most marketers aren't going to provide unique articles for an unranked site.

            There are programs such as BuildMyRank but you have to pay for them and you still have to do writing yourself, too.

            You are insisting on something that doesn't exist. There are ways to get what you want but each has some strings or money attached to it. Your problem is you want it all for free - and networks where people are exchanging good articles for links are NOT free.

            kay
            You are right man, but I am considering all options before I decide which way to go. I will eventually use articles to post on my websites should there be no other better option for me. But, although the articles from article directories are OK, I told you that I dislike the resource boxes. It's silly to have a resource/author box at the end of the article. All articles should have in-content links, not anywhere else. That's only normal to me.

            Also, I didn't say anything about content well targeted to my blogs keywords. All I wanted was the content to be in those 4 niches that I currently have websites for. And since they are quite big niches (for sure hydroponics and distance learning are not small niches) there has to be some places that meet people who need backlinks in the hydroponics niche for example with others who need content in that niche. That was my idea

            Anyway, Nicole mentioned below the names of 2 websites that might be what I am looking for. I will go and check them out

            Thanks for your reply
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        • Profile picture of the author sal64
          well if that's what you want, then you have to invest time and money on quality content.

          You can't have it both ways. On one hand you say that you want quality, then you say that you want it for free.

          That sounds delusional to me.

          Have you considered creating one blog and then you monetize it, you use the funds to create the next one?

          Good luck... you'll need it.


          Originally Posted by monere View Post

          There really must be networks that accept publishers to post content on their websites in exchange for backlinks. There has to be, it's just that I don't know of any of them. I told you that I tried with FTS, but that seems to take forever to get a decent article.

          That's why I opened this thread, to see what people are doing to solve this boring and tedious (in my case) content creation/publishing.

          I could use articles from article directories, yes. There are WP plugins that automatically post articles and so I could install one such plugin and let it go, but then I would go where you said I am going (ie ... so clearly your plan is to slap up a bunch of sites and make money) And that's not my plan.

          My plan is to slap a bunch of sites, yes (to create my own blogs empire, like I mentioned earlier) but the reason I am having so many difficulties is because I care about the quality of the sites I "slap". If I didn't care, I would've bought a cheap script that automatically creates crappy sites and then throw a bunch of backlinks to them and hope they would stick and make money, not caring whether they provide any value/benefit to the visitors or not.

          But that's not me, hence the problems I am having trying to make everything as perfect as possible (if perfection even exists)
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          • Profile picture of the author monere
            Originally Posted by sal64 View Post

            well if that's what you want, then you have to invest time and money on quality content.

            You can't have it both ways. On one hand you say that you want quality, then you say that you want it for free.

            That sounds delusional to me.

            Have you considered creating one blog and then you monetize it, you use the funds to create the next one?

            Good luck... you'll need it.
            Maybe I can. Isn't guest blogging/posting (or whatever it is called) supposed to be exactly the same thing?

            Anyway, I found 2 websites that might be what I was looking for
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            • Profile picture of the author sal64
              You have some excellent replies on here from senior members. But you appear to not want to listen because it's not the answers you seek.

              I understand your ambition to create 5 figures per month, but I also see that you are chasing a quick fire short cut, which is fine... in theory.

              Like I said, good luck.

              If you think you can do this on the back of free content, then all power to you.

              If you want quality, then you have to pay for it in some way. Be it through cash, resource boxes or link backs.

              You seem to want everything for nothing.

              Originally Posted by monere View Post

              Maybe I can. Isn't guest blogging/posting (or whatever it is called) supposed to be exactly the same thing?

              Anyway, I found 2 websites that might be what I was looking for
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              • Profile picture of the author monere
                Originally Posted by sal64 View Post

                You have some excellent replies on here from senior members. But you appear to not want to listen because it's not the answers you seek.

                I understand your ambition to create 5 figures per month, but I also see that you are chasing a quick fire short cut, which is fine... in theory.

                Like I said, good luck.

                If you think you can do this on the back of free content, then all power to you.

                If you want quality, then you have to pay for it in some way. Be it through cash, resource boxes or link backs.

                You seem to want everything for nothing.
                I said two or three times already that eventually I will use articles from article directories, exactly as their are (with those boxes), but only after I considered all other options. I need fresh content for my websites and I am going to get it, one way or the other. I never said I want everything for nothing.

                But (and thanks to Nicole's suggestions) I have found 2 websites that seem to be what I was looking for. I knew (or let's say that I had a feeling) that there are better alternatives to networks like FTS and so, I have found them (or something similar).

                I never asked for the moon in the sky, all I wanted was a decent, legal, free, moral place where content publishers and content providers get together (online) to exchange goods (content and backlinks obviously).

                I don't know how it got to chasing dreams, business models and stuff

                Thanks for all your kind replies
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by SUPER IM View Post

      I write my own content for ALL of my websites, takes a lot of time, but it is worth it in the end.


      But you are native English speaker and you probably know (or at least are passionate about) those topics as well

      For me it's a bit harder. To give you an example, it takes me over an hour to spin an article so it makes sense and has a uniqueness of at least 70-80%

      And spinning articles is not very fun, especially when you don't like writing

      Maybe I will get to your level too one day, who knows? But until then, I really need some help with some of these easy but tedious tasks that need to be all done
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      • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
        Originally Posted by monere View Post

        To give you an example, it takes me over an hour to spin an article so it makes sense and has a uniqueness of at least 70-80%

        And spinning articles is not very fun, especially when you don't like writing
        That's because spinning has nothing to do with actual writing I tried spinning some stuff a couple of years ago... it was tedious, boring, and it gave me nothing of value that I could actually use anywhere. It actually took me more time to spin that to just sit down and rewrite something by hand!

        As for your original question, why not sign up for a (free) membership at MyBlogGuest or Blogger Link Up? That way, you can find people who are willing to write guest posts without having to do a bunch of Google searches for blogs in your niche. Yes, you'll have to credit each guest poster with a link at the end, but, other than that, you'll get free content.
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        • Profile picture of the author monere
          Originally Posted by NicoleBeckett View Post

          That's because spinning has nothing to do with actual writing I tried spinning some stuff a couple of years ago... it was tedious, boring, and it gave me nothing of value that I could actually use anywhere. It actually took me more time to spin that to just sit down and rewrite something by hand!

          As for your original question, why not sign up for a (free) membership at MyBlogGuest or Blogger Link Up? That way, you can find people who are willing to write guest posts without having to do a bunch of Google searches for blogs in your niche. Yes, you'll have to credit each guest poster with a link at the end, but, other than that, you'll get free content.
          You know what? That's exactly what I wanted to hear

          I will go and check those sites right away. Thank you.

          @everyone who posted: I have nothing against crediting people with a backlink to their sites, and I will eventually use articles from article directories, should other better options be inexistent, but I had to consider all of the options.

          Also, I didn't say that my websites don't rank in G. They do rank, but only for a few low competition/search volume keywords for now.

          Ok, I go check those websites now. Thanks Nicole
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      • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
        Originally Posted by monere View Post


        For me it's a bit harder. To give you an example, it takes me over an hour to spin an article so it makes sense and has a uniqueness of at least 70-80%

        And spinning articles is not very fun, especially when you don't like writing
        If you've spent some time reading the multitude of past article writing threads here, surely you will have seen that, over the past two years, and especially since Google's February Panda update, article spinning has become very outdated. Low quality, spun articles have not cut it with Google for some time now.
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        • Profile picture of the author monere
          Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

          If you've spent some time reading the multitude of past article writing threads here, surely you will have seen that, over the past two years, and especially since Google's February Panda update, article spinning has become very outdated. Low quality, spun articles have not cut it with Google for some time now.
          Yes, I know it's like that, but that was not the point I wanted to make.

          The point was that someone above said that he writes all the articles for all his blogs, and I told him that I would do this too if I was a native English speaker like him, and if writing wasn't such a boring task.

          And to make things even clearer I gave the example of spinning an article, which takes me over an hour if I want the end result to be high quality and high uniqueness level.

          I gave the example of spinning because when you spin an article at least you have the topic researched and the article written, right in front of you. You don't have to do the research and literally write the article, which it would probably take me a whole day, given that only the spinning takes me 40-50+ minutes, sometime more (depending on the topic).

          That's why I mentioned about article spinning
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  • Profile picture of the author Kecia
    It sounds as though you are wanting something for nothing. There are ways to get free content (free meaning you don't pay any money) but you still have to put in the effort to find said content. Article directories are full of "free" content but you have to be willing to include the bio box. Guest posts are another idea, but you've got to be willing to take the time to network with others in your niche in order to get that type of content.

    I agree with Kay that everything you do in Internet marketing requires your time and money. You may want to re-evaluate your ideas for getting free stuff, as nothing is really "free" in IM.
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by Kecia View Post

      It sounds as though you are wanting something for nothing. There are ways to get free content (free meaning you don't pay any money) but you still have to put in the effort to find said content. Article directories are full of "free" content but you have to be willing to include the bio box. Guest posts are another idea, but you've got to be willing to take the time to network with others in your niche in order to get that type of content.

      I agree with Kay that everything you do in Internet marketing requires your time and money. You may want to re-evaluate your ideas for getting free stuff, as nothing is really "free" in IM.
      I guess it did sound like that lol. But I assure you that that was not my intent.

      What I am looking for is networks that provide benefits for both publishers and backlinks seekers. More specifically I would like a network similar to FTS that lets you add your blog for free, and in return you would receive high quality content, relevant to your niche.

      I tried this thing with FTS but the problem (like I said earlier) was that in almost a month since I added 3 of the blogs I only received a total of 2 articles, and couldn't accept any of them to be posted on my websites, because they were spun badly and didn't make any sense.

      Since there is one such network (FTS) there have to be others as well, but better (in terms of quality and volume of available articles)

      As for the articles from article directories, I never liked the author box (it's a silly thing if you asked me) but that doesn't mean I won't include it should I decide to use articles from those directories.

      Oh well, I will see what I'll do. I am still hoping to find what i'm looking for.

      Cheers!
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  • Profile picture of the author kenneto
    Perhaps you are bitting off more than you can chew. I would suggest starting off with one blog, building up the content on teh blog to establish your presense and create a brand that has value.

    Then you can JV with other like minded bloggers and create a blog empire without compromising on providing good and valuable content.
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by kenneto View Post

      Perhaps you are bitting off more than you can chew. I would suggest starting off with one blog, building up the content on teh blog to establish your presense and create a brand that has value.

      Then you can JV with other like minded bloggers and create a blog empire without compromising on providing good and valuable content.
      I don't think that only one blog can make you proud of being in IM. What you're saying makes sense though
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  • Profile picture of the author uumair
    Free content is merely dependent on your own relation, if you have a relation with the writter that he/she can write for you. This is the only solution for free content.
    This will be very much appreciable if you write articles for yourself.
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by uumair View Post

      Free content is merely dependent on your own relation, if you have a relation with the writter that he/she can write for you. This is the only solution for free content.
      This will be very much appreciable if you write articles for yourself.
      Maan! How can you write articles for yourself for dozens of niches that you know nothing about? Seriously. If I go this route and with the time it takes me to write even 1 article I will never get to 5 figures a month online.

      Something has to be outsourced for free () and I am going to find it.

      In fact, I think I just found something, thanks to Nicole.

      Cheers!
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Monere, there are a lot of those free, easy content networks. Unfortunately, the quality often sucks, as you've seen. The trouble comes because the people utilizing these networks for backlinks mostly don't care about quality, and they sure don't care about your websites. All they care about is that backlink and a few keywords around it.

      There's another part of your plan where I see trouble on the horizon for you. You plan to 'build a blog empire' around niches you know nothing about, but you want only high quality content. In my view, if you know nothing about the niche, how the heck can you even identify high quality content?

      You may be able to identify well-written content, but unless you employ fact checkers or you have some background expertise yourself, you have no clue if what you are putting your name on is the real deal or well-written horse manure.

      Like the sign says in my mechanic's shop:

      "> Good
      > Fast
      > Cheap

      Pick two out of three."
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      • Profile picture of the author monere
        Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

        Monere, there are a lot of those free, easy content networks. Unfortunately, the quality often sucks, as you've seen. The trouble comes because the people utilizing these networks for backlinks mostly don't care about quality, and they sure don't care about your websites. All they care about is that backlink and a few keywords around it.

        There's another part of your plan where I see trouble on the horizon for you. You plan to 'build a blog empire' around niches you know nothing about, but you want only high quality content. In my view, if you know nothing about the niche, how the heck can you even identify high quality content?

        You may be able to identify well-written content, but unless you employ fact checkers or you have some background expertise yourself, you have no clue if what you are putting your name on is the real deal or well-written horse manure.

        Like the sign says in my mechanic's shop:

        "> Good
        > Fast
        > Cheap

        Pick two out of three."
        Well, I never thought about that. I just looked at the content and if it sounded interesting to me and made sense, then it was quality

        But then, isn't this what all visitors to a website they find in Google and they know nothing about deem as interesting/quality content?

        But I got your point and it's a good point. It just won't help me with what I needed to know (ie. where I can find a website that brings content publishers together with quality content providers, for free). And I think I found something.

        Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    Other than what has been suggested in this thread by others, I don't think there is another different answer to your problem. You either

    Use articles from articles including the bio.
    Write them yourself.
    Find others to write them for the backlink.
    Pay someone to write them for you.

    From all your responses, it sounds like you are already spreading yourself too thin.

    I would suggest that you concentrate on just one blog, really get it going well, then you would have time to write your own content for it and get it ranked and get traffic to it and when you are making enough money from just that one site, then go to the next one etc.

    Otherwise, you may create a lot of sites but not be making any money and just be wearing yourself out.

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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by TopKat22 View Post

      Other than what has been suggested in this thread by others, I don't think there is another different answer to your problem. You either

      Use articles from articles including the bio.
      Write them yourself.
      Find others to write them for the backlink.
      Pay someone to write them for you.

      From all your responses, it sounds like you are already spreading yourself too thin.

      I would suggest that you concentrate on just one blog, really get it going well, then you would have time to write your own content for it and get it ranked and get traffic to it and when you are making enough money from just that one site, then go to the next one etc.

      Otherwise, you may create a lot of sites but not be making any money and just be wearing yourself out.

      :-)
      Yes, these are all the options, and I was looking for option number 3 (Find others to write articles for the backlink). And I finally found something

      Thanks for the tips
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  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Bell
    If you don't like writing articles, you can try speech recognition software. Buy a microphone and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This will speed up your content creation in a hurry! With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you just find a good article and rewrite in your own words. It doesn't get any easier than that.
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by Brandon Bell View Post

      If you don't like writing articles, you can try speech recognition software. Buy a microphone and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This will speed up your content creation in a hurry! With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you just find a good article and rewrite in your own words. It doesn't get any easier than that.
      Sounds interesting

      Thanks for the tip
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    • Profile picture of the author mounds
      Originally Posted by Brandon Bell View Post

      If you don't like writing articles, you can try speech recognition software. Buy a microphone and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This will speed up your content creation in a hurry! With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you just find a good article and rewrite in your own words. It doesn't get any easier than that.
      I think many writers (myself included) would take issue with someone pilfering an entire article and rewriting it for their own site.

      If you spent two hours on an article, researching and writing, would it be OK for me to go copy your article, rewrite it, and call it my own?
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      • Profile picture of the author monere
        Originally Posted by mounds View Post

        I think many writers (myself included) would take issue with someone pilfering an entire article and rewriting it for their own site.

        If you spent two hours on an article, researching and writing, would it be OK for me to go copy your article, rewrite it, and call it my own?
        As long as you rewrite it in your own words, I don't see why it wouldn't be Ok. Any piece of information can be expressed in many ways.

        The same news is presented by various agencies/channels/etc. in their own, unique way. The same goes for articles as well. Even the information you research to write an article, has been researched and written before by someone else (the one/ones you took it from)

        So, yes. I will be OK if you took the article I wrote and claim it your own, with the only condition you write it in your own words
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        • Profile picture of the author mounds
          Originally Posted by monere View Post

          As long as you rewrite it in your own words, I don't see why it wouldn't be Ok. Any piece of information can be expressed in many ways.
          Something about that doesn't quite sit right. I realize this is the internet and people are going to do it anyway, but I just don't agree with this type of writing.

          When I write an article, I aim to bring a new perspective. That means I have to draw from a number of sources, gathering information that I rewrite in my own words. I aim to build on what exists.

          If I were to simply rewrite good articles, I'm not doing anyone any favours. I'm stealing traffic from existing sites, I'm threatening my reputation, and above all, I'm not providing any value. I'm simply rehashing someone else's words and ideas.

          Now here's the real kicker: this is a business. If that was the level of effort I was willing to put into my business, I'd save myself a few years and go get a job today. It's a recipe for failure.
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          • Profile picture of the author monere
            Originally Posted by mounds View Post

            Something about that doesn't quite sit right. I realize this is the internet and people are going to do it anyway, but I just don't agree with this type of writing.

            When I write an article, I aim to bring a new perspective. That means I have to draw from a number of sources, gathering information that I rewrite in my own words. I aim to build on what exists.

            If I were to simply rewrite good articles, I'm not doing anyone any favours. I'm stealing traffic from existing sites, I'm threatening my reputation, and above all, I'm not providing any value. I'm simply rehashing someone else's words and ideas.

            Now here's the real kicker: this is a business. If that was the level of effort I was willing to put into my business, I'd save myself a few years and go get a job today. It's a recipe for failure.
            I got your point too.

            Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author malta
    If you speak a different language than English, find wikipedia articles in that language regarding your topic and manually translate these into English. This is a great source for free content!
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    • Profile picture of the author monere
      Originally Posted by malta View Post

      If you speak a different language than English, find wikipedia articles in that language regarding your topic and manually translate these into English. This is a great source for free content!
      Great idea!

      I did this thing about half an year ago, but I don't remember where I used the article I rewrote with Wikipedia's info.

      Thanks for reminding me about this one. I totally forgot about it
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguelito203
    Originally Posted by monere View Post

    Hello warriors

    Do you happen to know how I can get some content for my websites without using articles from article directories and without paying a single dime for it?

    I have several sites in various niches and since I am at the beginning with this IM thing and I am just starting out building my "empire of niche blogs" I wouldn't want to go to article directories and post those articles with author bio and stuff. I have nothing against providing backlinks to those who give me articles to post on my websites, but I always disliked the author bios (I don't know why). If anything, I will provide the backlink in content, as it's normal (well, as it appears normal to me lol)

    I am looking for a few articles a month (2-3 to 10, definitely not more) for each site, on the topics of my websites (docking stations, hydroponic gardening, surround sound, and distance learning) that are high quality, but I don't know where to look for.

    I tried adding my sites to FreeTrafficSystem but in one month I only received 2 articles (that's total, not for each site) and they were both low quality (unreadable) so I had to remove them. My websites are PR 0 only, but they're not low quality either (ie. filled with Adsense ads and spun, crappy content that makes no sense).

    Anyway, if any of you knows of such network that offer lots of quality and relevant content for publishing on their clients' sites, please share! I really have no idea where to look for these networks.

    Thanks
    Nowadays, unique, quality content works best, so you bascailly have two options: write it yourself or hire someone to write it for you from a site like Elance or something like that.

    Good luck,
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      First you say it's ok to rewrite someone else's article (yes, that's exactly what you said)

      As long as you rewrite it in your own words, I don't see why it wouldn't be Ok. Any piece of information can be expressed in many ways.
      Then you go on to say:

      all I wanted was a decent, legal, free, moral place where content publishers and content providers get together (online) to exchange goods (content and backlinks obviously).
      Those two statements are in conflict. If you are rewriting articles other people researched and wrote - you are not doing the decent, legal, moral thing so don't play word games.

      If you've found sites that give you what you want for free, good luck with them.
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      • Profile picture of the author monere
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        First you say it's ok to rewrite someone else's article (yes, that's exactly what you said)



        Then you go on to say:



        Those two statements are in conflict. If you are rewriting articles other people researched and wrote - you are not doing the decent, legal, moral thing so don't play word games.

        If you've found sites that give you what you want for free, good luck with them.
        I am not rewriting them. I would take them as given and publish them on my websites as they are. I know this thread got a bit mixed up with all sorts of subjects and points but I didn't intend to make it like that.

        The subject of rewriting started when I gave it as an example to something, in a previous reply to someone who said he is writing all of his articles for all of his sites. Then, another person who replied to this thread misinterpreted the example and from there on everything became misunderstood and from spinning articles we got to questionable means of doing business online.

        If I took the time to rewrite the articles I might as well write them myself, since I said earlier that even spinning bores me.

        And so, I needed a place where people would freely trade content for backlinks. And I found one (2 actually but I only checked one so far) such website where I can get free content to be published on my websites AS IS, and there was even an option for the content to not have been published somewhere else beforehand, which I obviously ticked its checkbox
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