How I got my content

[sandra]

Hi All,

Like most of you my blog is on my hobby
I have loved craft for as long as I can remember
and have bought many craft books and magazines
over the years so I get them out and find an article
read it and rewrite it in my own way.

I just got a cheap PLR ready made website all about Christmas
and instead of uploading it as is I copied the pages and used them
for post's in my blog.

I read other craft sites and get ideas from them then write my
own article from that.

To get traffic I have put some of these articles in article directories
plus I got another blog at Ken Renos new site and wrote an article and
put my WP Blog url in there.

I hope this helps you get ideas of how you too can find content for your
blog's
Wishing you all much success
Sandra

[WordpressConsultant]

Well done, Sandra!

You have a good start in terms of promoting your blog. I have wrote an aritcle in my blog about "10 ways I use to improve traffic to my blog". Read more from here.

[Robotys]

Its good when you read about what you write. But when you`re targeting niche outside of your specialties (let say that all specialty niche have been done) , it gonna hurt to read something not your passion and hard to understand. Imagine Sara is going to build blog on automotive. Its gonna be hard.

My point: Know your passion, blog it, monetize it

so, your content is in your passion !

[DailyBlogsNetwork]

I worked with an outsourcer, who had been reccomended by other contacts, and ordered 30 blog entries for my website, DailyPrizeBlog.com

the articles were simple, just a quick paragraph and compiling information, but it saved me a lot of time and effort so I could focus on other aspects of the site. I also saved money by them only writing it, and not gathering pictures or loading it into wordpress. This way, I could not only save money but experiment with the look and layout format of the posts.

Has anyone else ordered custom articles from outsourcing companies? I would be interested to hear both good and bad experiences!

[WordpressConsultant]

Originally Posted by DailyBlogsNetwork

I worked with an outsourcer, who had been reccomended by other contacts, and ordered 30 blog entries for my website, DailyPrizeBlog.com

the articles were simple, just a quick paragraph and compiling information, but it saved me a lot of time and effort so I could focus on other aspects of the site. I also saved money by them only writing it, and not gathering pictures or loading it into wordpress. This way, I could not only save money but experiment with the look and layout format of the posts.

Has anyone else ordered custom articles from outsourcing companies? I would be interested to hear both good and bad experiences!

You can try RentACoder.com. I am trying the service at the moment, you can read more info about my blog post. So far so good, the coder is quite responsive on my request.

[cynovatron]

One of the best ways I get content is through related blogs! read others' blogs, consolidate and comment!

The other one is Google Alerts - simply wonderful

[WordpressConsultant]

Originally Posted by cynovatron

One of the best ways I get content is through related blogs! read others' blogs, consolidate and comment!

The other one is Google Alerts - simply wonderful

Do you mean search other blog and copy the contents over to your site? Depends on what is your blog objective la.. if you are creating spam blog, it should be ok...

But if you are maintaining a quality contents for your blog, you better outsource someone to write for you. My RentACoder job manage to bid for $110 for 60 article re-write. Consider quite good deals.

Consider it.

[cynovatron]

No lar, not copy - google just posted about duplicate content!

What i mean is quote a sentence or two and then post your views on it. There are always a few topics around the blogosphere, like for example there were people saying that blogging will peak in 2007, or the need to create a will so that your internet revenues will be passed down when you leave the world..

[ProfitBlogger]

If you do like what cynovatron did, you can have unlimited sources of new content, and you also create backlinks via trackbacks and maybe even get the attention of the bloggers.

Smart!

As for using outsourced writers, here's what I pay:

$360 for 3-month contract, post a total of 120 articles.

Seemed to work out pretty well for me, provided that you give PROPER instructions to the blogger...

[raymond_laubert]

This is a little long, but hopefully will help those trying to get content.
I start by:
1. Researching/brainstorming a topic. Using Yahoo (overture) and WordTracker I research topics looking for good searches and low competition for those topics. Resently I did an article on Dutch Ovens. Found 40-60 good keyword phrases with several hundred searches per month and found about 15 with no competition.
2. Using Google, Yahoo and MSN I search using my keyword/topic and review websites returned. If I find interesting material, I copy and paste it to notepad. If I find that it is mainly sales related information I return to step one and choose a different keyword. The material pasted into notepad becomes the meat for my article.
3. Once I have 6 or more pieces of articles I create an article outline with title ideas, intro, keypoints (the stuff copied from the web) and a closing. Then I begin to write. I found the term Dutch Oven Cherry Deserts was search about 1000 times a month and no websites used that keyword phrase. Then researched and found half a dozen recipes for Dutch Oven Cherry Deserts which became the bases for the article.
4. After writing the articles by simply rephrasing the material and filling out the outline, I have it proofed and create a title. Title includes the keyword phrase up front and usually a number of some type. Such as 4 Easy Dutch Oven Cherry Deserts in under 90 minutes.
5. Verify keyword usuage so that I don't spam it Want to repeat the phrase only a few times. Header, opening sentence (Intro), maybe two or three times in the body and in the closing.
6. Post to my website
7. After about a week or so, post to Article Directories.
8. Use it in my newsletter.
9. Depending on popularity and subject maybe make it into an ebook for publication.

Thats it. No matter how bad the writers block or subject, I can always find information to write on.