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Hi PIPsters, I would like to share with you my own strategies that I use to create content on my own blog or my article marketing efforts. I'm not going to be explaining what a blog is or the advantages of using article marketing in this article but I'm going to share with you how you can create content for yourself and your own online home business in 2009. There are 3 ways of creating content: 1. Original Content 2. Re-written Content 3. Ghostwritten Content Original Content When you create content, it's important to create something that's original and useful. And this can be done by reading up more, learning more from newspapers, forums, discussing with people, watching television, news, entertainment, et cetera. The possibilities are endless. However, the problem with this is that you may run out of ideas or inspiration very quickly after you've finished with your content creation. To beat this problem, you can re-write content. Re-written Content You can get content from various article directories, from blogs, from private label right (PLR) products. It's important to know that you can't just take any of these published content and claim them as your own. However, when you read the content and you get an idea from it, you are free to talk more about it. Ideas are not copyrightable (and that's a real word!) If you are re-writing content and submitting them to article directories where they have human reviewers (like Ezine Articles), make sure that your content is significantly unique. The problem that you face with re-written articles is that it may turn out too much like the original content, so you need to re-write them so that they're uniquely different. Here's a site that I use: DupeCop - Online and desktop tools to detect duplicate content This site has a useful function that lets you check your content versus the original content to check on the uniqueness. I usually aim for more than 50%. Plagiarism Checker is another site that you can consider adding into your arsenal of duplicate content checking. Ghostwritten Content Ghostwritten content simply means to pay someone to write your content for you and you have the exclusive rights to the content. You can claim that the article was written by you. You can head on to Elance | Connect with Qualified Professionals to hire somebody to do the work of content writing for you. The tip that I can give you is to do a "shotgun" approach first. That means to hire a few ghostwriters at one time and have them write your content. Test them on their speed, their creation content, their response rate, how often they update you on the progress of creation, etc. For the fast ones, you can keep them in your contact list when you want more ghostwritten content. For the ones that don't match up to your standards, just move on to finding other ghostwriters. Asher |
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Hi Asher, Thanks for the post, some great links there which should prove valuable for all article writers, thanks for sharing, Mal. |
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Great info Asher, Dupecop is something i use when i rewrite an article.
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Hi Malcolm, Jasonb25, Glad that you like it. Take it, go forth and prosper! ![]() Another great tip that I can recommend after being inspired by another thread in the main forum is to use public domain material. The reason why people DON'T use PLR is because a lot of PLR are actually written poorly... either because the people who wrote the PLR are: 1. Not trained in writing a book 2. Not the real expert on the topic 3. Got their material from OTHER PLR 4. Re-hashed material 5. May not have done research Public domain material, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. They're well researched, written by expert authors and they're original. However, I stand on the side of PLR in that you don't use PLR as is... but rather use PLR for inspiration. For ideas. It's easier to critique a painting then to actually paint a masterpiece. So if you can take a piece of painting (in this example, a PLR) and critique it, you can take those critiques, those ideas, those observations and make them into articles of yours. There's a lot of advantages of using PLR but you should stick to using them as creating content for your own home business for now, until you know how to maximise the usage of PLR. Asher |
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Hi, Asher some really great information. Thanks
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Wow, great information for getting articles.
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It really depends. Articles can cost about $5 per piece or somewhere around there. There are those that work by hour as well. A tip for you if you do decide to use ghostwritten articles... always take the first paragraph and do a Google search with it to see if there's an exact copy. Some ghostwriters have a very bad habit of copy-and- paste from different blogs before sending it to you. I've experienced that. Asher | |
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Great advice, Asher. I use most of the methods you described when creating my own content. You provide some links I haven't heard before, so thanks for sharing. Alan |
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Hi Ashar, Thanks for the great info, very helpful. Alan |
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Thank you for the information. I am not a good writer as well and article writing is not my cup of tea. Jennifer |
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I forget where I saw this, maybe in the Entrepreneur Forums, but another way to get fresh content is to go to YouTube and watch videos on the topic you want to write about. You'll get a lot of good content that way.
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ideas as well. Even though it's not allowed to copy the video's audio content word for word, it's perfectly fine to get ideas from it and make new content from it. If anyone's a regular YouTube visitor, after watching any videos, if there's any correlation whatsoever to your home business, go ahead and use the video to talk about your home business. It'll entertain your visitors/customers as well as provide good, new content for yourself. Thanks for sharing, Alan! Asher | |
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Yeah, definitely don't copy word for word. It helps to get ideas if you're struggling with coming up with content or if you're not real knowledgeable in that area.
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Great post Asher...this info whould be very helpful to other members. Nice work, Doug |
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Hi Everyone! I have 2 Questions... I'm just learning about article writing myself and thanks Asher for those links in your post... very helpful. 1. Correct me if I'm wrong about this but I believe you can use content from Wikipedia.org. Word for word if you like. I would think you would want to re word it anyway so it doesn't read like an encyclopedia. But before I do anything stupid... Is this true?? 2ND question...regarding PUBLIC DOMAINS: Are there websites for this? Or maybe I just don't get public domains. How do you find public domains? Actually, I used the keyword (public domain) to "Google it" and got a ton of info and found myself all over the map so to speak, but never could find how to get to the relevant content. So if you have anymore detailed information on "Public Domains" as to exactly what is it? Where is it? or how can I find out more about it, I would be very grateful. Thanks! |
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Hi GreenEyes,
even if it's word for word on your own blog. However, it's much better to use Wikipedia as a resource rather than having another copy of Wikipedia information on your blog. The search engine's not going to rank what you copied on your blog above Wikipedia in the search engines. To prove my point, if you search for "work from home" on Wikipedia (you'll get redirected to telecommuting), the first line of the Wiki-explanation is this: Telecommuting, e-commuting, e-work, telework, working at home (WAH), or working from home (WFH) is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours. If you copy-and-paste all those words into a search engine, you'll have search results of different web pages with the exact same content. But the first one is Wikipedia's site. Where do you think users are likely to click on? Your site or Wikipedia?
public domain materials by some very well-known public domain "gurus" and they give great resources as well as tutorials. Public domain is anything that's not controlled or owned by anyone and indicates that it's free for anyone to use. If any copyright material did not register to renew it's copyright after a certain period of time, it loses it's copyright and goes into the public domain (that's what happened to the awesome book, Think and Grow Rich). If you're looking for internet marketing stuff on public domain, unfortunately, even for me it's a futile search because most public domain material is very old. And they're so old the mobile phone hasn't been invented yet - much less the internet. But public domains are absolutely GREAT for creating content that are about dogs, cats, hairstyles, fashion, et cetera. Hope this answers your questions ![]() Asher | |||
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Thank you Asher! helped alot! Dylan |
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You're very welcome Dylan. Just to let you know, you cannot have affiliate links in your signatures on this forum. If it's promoting your website, it's fine. But no affiliate links (besides, the link is broken). I encourage you to remove it before the moderators do something about it. To the top, Asher Aw |
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This is awesome stuff! I have posted before about how much i am learning about internet marketing, and everything that goes along with it. Thanks to everybody for the info! ![]() |
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Hi Anthony, You're very welcome. Internet marketing is quite addictive I must say... but I think it's the marketing aspect of it that keeps people interested and the internet aspect of it that reaches out to people. To the top, Asher |
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Anyone try using Amazon Mechanical Turk to find people to write articles. I've heard it's the most cost effective for the results, but not directly from someone who had use the service.
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Thanks for the great info Asher
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Hi Asher, Great stuff here. I know how writing is a huge part of promoting our businesses and how difficult it can be for some of us to write constantly day in and day out. Outsourcing is a great idea but can be expensive, especially if you are not yet making any online income. Heres a suggestion Id like to add... Talk to a friend or relative, someone you know is a good writer and ask them for help. Tell them you will pay them $2 - 4 an article and if they do a good job and as your internet income increases you will pay them more. This has worked more than a few times for me and they were happy to help out and they even thought the pay was decent enough. A couple of times I would just explain what I was doing and they asked me if they could help. Of course not everyone is a gifted writer and can just pick up a topic and write on it but there are a few that can. Ask around and you might be surprised where the help can come from. Best, Matt |
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Thank you " Asher " Great article and many good ideas about internet marketing i hope this article help people her and keep the good work mate
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I have found a great software program called 'Article Ideas' which scans the web for non-commercial articles listed under 'Main Topic' and 'Sub Topic' and then presents the results with the web address and a synopsis of the article. This facet enables you to quickly choose those which you deem to fit your requirements. You can set the number of results required from 10 into the hundreds. |
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This forum helps all members to share Experiences on article writing. Have everyone success!
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