Some advice on a Niche News Site please

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I am very new to internet marketing but have lots of ideas. Please review my thinking and questions below and feel free to offer advice or tell me things I should consider...
1. I found a niche industry that has no official or established news website - All industry news are posted in forums and regurgitated in blogs.
2. I already registered a domain and installed a WP news theme. I then wrote 5 articles and realised how time-consuming it is to write quality content (and still have a lot to learn about quality).
3. The aim is to become the one place that all blog and forum posters go to in order to find news, articles and research about the industry. This means lots of back links and traffic, at which point I can look at ways to monetise.
Questions;
a) If I only have time to write 4-5 quality posts per week, should I fill the site out by using RSS news feeds or WP O Matic?
b) Will having this un-original content hurt more than having very limited daily content?
c) Any useful tips or resources for building and maintaining a successful news website?
Thanks in advance for you input. This forum kicks a**
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  • Profile picture of the author Cassidy
    You should be ok with 4-5 quality posts a week maybe a little less, with at least a few daily additions by aggregating news from other sites.
    Do a lot of your own link building and article marketing.
    Look for press releases from businesses in the industry, and contact their marketing people to make sure you get any news/press info from them.
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    • Profile picture of the author StunningWarrior
      Originally Posted by Cassidy View Post

      You should be ok with 4-5 quality posts a week maybe a little less, with at least a few daily additions by aggregating news from other sites.
      I agree.

      If ...

      Originally Posted by jibblet View Post

      1. I found a niche industry that has no official or established news website - All industry news are posted in forums and regurgitated in blogs.
      ... is really the case then 4-5 posts per week and the only news website is going to be a massive change.

      You're not competing here with football365.com or football.co.uk or the like where you'd need 4-5 hundred posts per week to get on the same pitch.
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      • Profile picture of the author jibblet
        Thank you for the input!

        I am hoping to have visitors subscribe to a daily news round up via email, so for this I need to have at least 4-5 decent posts or articles per day.

        If I write the featured post myself. What is the best way of automating the other ones? I can find plugins that post directly from an RSS feed, but will that hurt the site in any way?

        The only way to manually get the extra content is to subscribe to the blogs and forums, and quickly say what they said... but maybe there is a tool that will automate this?
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        • Profile picture of the author StunningWarrior
          Originally Posted by jibblet View Post

          If I write the featured post myself. What is the best way of automating the other ones? I can find plugins that post directly from an RSS feed, but will that hurt the site in any way?
          There are plenty of tools that will scrape content. It's not really my area so I can't suggest the best. One that I hear a lot of people recommend is WP Robot. If you are scraping content and posting it without spinning it then you need to have a link back to the original source so that Google knows that you know that you have copied the content and you make it clear to the world by attributing the original source. If you don't do this then it will hurt the site for sure from a search engine viewpoint. Whether it will hurt the site from a human surfer viewpoint depends on the niche and whether the visitors have a problem with you reposting content from elsewhere.


          Originally Posted by jibblet View Post

          The only way to manually get the extra content is to subscribe to the blogs and forums, and quickly say what they said... but maybe there is a tool that will automate this?
          Just use google alerts to keep up to date with what is happening on the core blogs and forums. You can use site:domain.com to restrict the alerts to those sites that you are interested in.
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