Owning, running and maintaining an Internet based business
or a site needs articles. Plain and simple, every one who has a site knows
this. Even those who don’t have sites but are frequent Internet users knows
this as well. Articles quench the thirst for information and knowledge of the
people. Plus, the articles provide many other benefits for the site.
The benefits that articles provide are putting a site high
in the ranking in search results of keywords and keyword phrases that pertains
or are relevant to his or her site. They also provide attraction to website
visitors when they are appreciated and is linked to your site from another site
or newsletter. Articles provide for the increase of the confidence and trust
levels of customers to your site and company.
Many articles are also beneficial to both company and its
traffic. When the readers like the articles, they would tell more of their
friends, family and peers and recommend your site to them, providing for a
larger volume of traffic. You get bigger sales if your traffic trusts and
believes in you. Your product or services would be much easier to sell when
they know you know what you are doing and talking about.
So ok, we have established that articles are very important
to a site and to business. Articles are crucial and to keep ahead in the game,
a site must have an article, it is imperative. There is one dilemma though, not
many people like writing articles.
Many website owners would rather spend their time on
something else, and unless you’re a big time company, you don’t have the
necessary resources to use on a pool of article writers. Plagiarism or copying
of other articles is frowned upon and could easily get you into trouble, worst
case scenario; a hefty fine and jail time.
So what are the other options?
Well, for starters if you hate writing articles and you
can’t afford to hire people to write for you then don’t. Get free articles.
The first place to look at for free articles is the public domain. Here you won’t have problems with copyright
infringement and the following penalties and fines if you get caught for
plagiarism.
Public domain articles are articles freely given to
the public for public use. You can do whatever you want with it. You can place
it on your site, name it as yours, put it in a newsletter its you decision.
Always remember though that you will have to choose articles that is very relevant
to your site.
The downside to public domain articles is that since it is
free for everybody, many of your competitors may have access to them as well.
Since every site needs to be original and unique even though you have the same
niche, this could be a predicament. You may also have to edit them a bit to
place more keywords and keyword phrases to make them better.
Another way to get free articles is to allow other sites
which has the same subject or topic as yours to submit articles to your site.
This would be only to augment your existing content or else
all your articles would be leading to other sites since these articles would
have resource boxes with them that could link or direct the readers to their
site. That’s why it is important to have your own articles; you cold use them
to link your site to other sites as well.
Tip: to truly feel the impact of what a good
article to you, go for original ones. There are many article writers who do
part time and freelance article writing jobs that charges only minimal fees.
You can get good articles that have all the keywords and keyword phrases you
need and people are looking for.
The investment you made for these articles would be
worthwhile because you could use them for all the benefits you could offer. You
hold copyrights to them and you will be able to use them anyway you want.
As your articles help you in building your business and your
site, you will have more articles to write and maybe then you won't be having
second thoughts about articles.
