Writing your own articles can be a challenging task, not everyone is a proficient and skilled writer, believe me, I know. There’s a nifty trick out there that can save you time if you are hoping to generate your own content. Summarizing and re-writing or editing someone else’s articles can be a great way to quickly compile loads of content, just be sure to have the original authors permission!
There are a several ways to get content that you wish to modify. For instance, two sample methods are:
Tracking down some nice articles on the net and contacting the author to ask for permission.
The second way is to higher writers for you, generally writers are cheap and will often sell you the rights to their work.
Avoid, at all costs, infringing on copyrighted material, you will be sued!
Here is a list of very useful, very practical places to find content.
- Websites - Just be sure to ask for permission if borrowing content.
- Guest Generated Content - Create a Forums section on your website, or a small Q & A section, this will allow guests to generate content for you unknowingly!
- Content Syndication Sites - these sites contain free content for you to borrow, the only catch is you must provide a back-link to the home site.
- Government - Any content produced by the American Government is free, this is not to be confused with material produced FOR the American Government. Exclusions include the postal service and the national technical information service
- Hire a Writer - Consider hiring a University student as a part or full time writer to generate original content for you, this is often a cheap and effective solution to your content problems.
- Open Content - Content that falls under this category is free to re-use and modify as long as you do not claim original ownership. For more information, conduct a Google search on “copyleft content”
Whether finding content in order to modify it, or generating your own, be sure to keep the content relevant to your site, this is SEO! Also I cannot stress this enough, do not forget to ask permission from original authors!
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