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Where do people here get content?
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| bernardZ 2007-11-20, 6:19 am |
| I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in it!
Can someone tell me how they do it.
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| SpaceGirl 2007-11-20, 6:19 am |
| On Nov 20, 8:38 am, bernardZ <Berna...@nospam.com> wrote:
> I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in it!
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> Can someone tell me how they do it.
Scour web news sources for relevant articles, sometimes mash-up
several articles and rewrite (or write an article that quotes others).
Or write our articles from scratch. In that order of preference :)
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"SpaceGirl" <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote in message
news:3226beb6-2d72-4a76-ab5d-98c74f7653b1@b36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 20, 8:38 am, bernardZ <Berna...@nospam.com> wrote:
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> Scour web news sources for relevant articles, sometimes mash-up
> several articles and rewrite (or write an article that quotes others).
> Or write our articles from scratch. In that order of preference :)
That's cheating!
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| Blinky the Shark 2007-11-20, 6:18 pm |
| bernardZ wrote:
> I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in it!
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> Can someone tell me how they do it.
If you don't have anything to say, perhaps you shouldn't be...er...no,
that's probably not the answer you're looking for. :)
--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project - http://improve-usenet.org
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| Secret Agent X 2007-11-20, 6:18 pm |
| bernardZ <BernardZ@nospam.com> wrote:
>I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in it!
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>Can someone tell me how they do it.
I write my own content. That's my job. If you don't have content for a
web site, you shouldn't be publishing a web site!
X
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| Secret Agent X 2007-11-20, 6:18 pm |
| "elyob" <newsprofile@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
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>"SpaceGirl" <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote in message
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>That's cheating!
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Paraphrasing is okay, but I think scouring web news sources for
relevant articles may be deemed plagarism, unless the data is
rewritten in ones own way (paraphrased).
But hey, honesty doesn't pay the bills - ask any corporate.
X
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"bernardZ" <BernardZ@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.21ad48271f092e629896a4@news...
>I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in it!
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> Can someone tell me how they do it.
They make it up.
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Richard.
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| SpaceGirl 2007-11-20, 6:18 pm |
| On Nov 20, 11:30 am, (Secret Agent X) wrote:
> "elyob" <newsprof...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
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> Paraphrasing is okay, but I think scouring web news sources for
> relevant articles may be deemed plagarism, unless the data is
> rewritten in ones own way (paraphrased).
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> But hey, honesty doesn't pay the bills - ask any corporate.
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> X
Hehe. Yep.
Well we do ask permission, or use public feeds (such as the BBC) and
always always always make clear who the source is and provide a link
back.
Articles do get re-written too, so what tends to happen is an article
on site X becomes purely the seed to generate an article on site Y.
Quotes are always sourced, and linked. Mashups too.
It's not cheating, many many thousands of sites do this by including
RSS feeds from other folks. If someone wants to leech one of our RSS
feeds go for it!
We're not really in the business of creating content though, so you'd
need to ask someone with a news site I suppose :)
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| Red E. Kilowatt 2007-11-20, 6:18 pm |
| bernardZ <BernardZ@nospam.com> wrote in message:
MPG.21ad48271f092e629896a4@news,
> I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in
> it!
>
> Can someone tell me how they do it.
Write what you can and also invite your readers to submit stuff.
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Red
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| Chris F.A. Johnson 2007-11-20, 6:18 pm |
| On 2007-11-20, bernardZ wrote:
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> I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in it!
Why do you have a blog if you don't have anything to say?
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Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com>
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Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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| bernardz 2007-11-21, 3:16 am |
| On Nov 21, 4:26 am, "Red E. Kilowatt" <spamt...@aww-faq.org> wrote:
> bernardZ<Berna...@nospam.com> wrote in message:
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> MPG.21ad48271f092e629896a4@news,
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> Write what you can and also invite your readers to submit stuff.
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> Red
That is the problem the blog gets a 100 readers a day. It is certainly
not enough critical mass to generate much response.
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| bernardz 2007-11-21, 3:16 am |
| On Nov 20, 10:22 pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
> bernardZwrote:
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> If you don't have anything to say, perhaps you shouldn't be...er...no,
> that's probably not the answer you're looking for. :)
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> --
> Blinky
> Killing all posts from Google Groups
> The Usenet Improvement Project -http://improve-usenet.org
Indeed. I would love to get a professional writer to do it but there
is no way the company will budget the money for that!
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| bernardz 2007-11-21, 3:16 am |
| On Nov 20, 11:52 pm, SpaceGirl <nothespacegirls...@subhuman.net>
wrote:
> On Nov 20, 11:30 am, (Secret Agent X) wrote:
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> Hehe. Yep.
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> Well we do ask permission, or use public feeds (such as the BBC) and
> always always always make clear who the source is and provide a link
> back.
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> Articles do get re-written too, so what tends to happen is an article
> on site X becomes purely the seed to generate an article on site Y.
> Quotes are always sourced, and linked. Mashups too.
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> It's not cheating, many many thousands of sites do this by including
> RSS feeds from other folks. If someone wants to leech one of our RSS
> feeds go for it!
What do you think professional writers do? They borrow from each
other. What you do is read something and hope they get inspired to
write something different. The other problem is if its too close
people will find out when they do a google search.
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> We're not really in the business of creating content though, so you'd
> need to ask someone with a news site I suppose :)
Indeed. I find it easy to write websites, the content is the killer.
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| Secret Agent X 2007-11-21, 6:17 pm |
| bernardz <bernardz@mail.com> wrote:
>Indeed. I find it easy to write websites, the content is the killer.
Says it all really.
Welcome to the World Wide Wank
X
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| Red E. Kilowatt 2007-11-21, 6:17 pm |
| bernardz <bernardz@mail.com> wrote in message:
557cbbc8-81c3-4ff0-bf09-e981120d4c6d@l22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com,
> On Nov 21, 4:26 am, "Red E. Kilowatt" <spamt...@aww-faq.org> wrote:
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> That is the problem the blog gets a 100 readers a day. It is certainly
> not enough critical mass to generate much response.
Actually, I think that's more than enough to get started. You ought to
be able to motivate at least a couple of people out of that hundred to
contribute something and then others will follow.
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Red
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| Dylan Parry 2007-11-21, 6:17 pm |
| Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> Why do you have a blog if you don't have anything to say?
No one who has a blog has anything to say whatsoever. That's the whole
point of them!
--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org | http://webpageworkshop.co.uk
The opinions stated above are not necessarily representative of
those of my cats. All opinions expressed are entirely your own.
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| bernardZ wrote:
: I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in
: it!
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: Can someone tell me how they do it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...article+content
The first result is
http://www.goarticles.com/
They are pretty good but there are a bunch of others with searchable
content.
Make sure you read the rules/terms and realize that some are hack writers
looking
to benefit from free traffic by having their links in the author byline so
read the article
and think if it is good enough or research it before adding it to your site.
Good luck,
Heidi
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| bernardZ 2007-11-22, 6:16 am |
| In article <47446c7f$0$4974$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, spamtrap@aww-
faq.org says...
> bernardz <bernardz@mail.com> wrote in message:
> 557cbbc8-81c3-4ff0-bf09-e981120d4c6d@l22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com,
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> Actually, I think that's more than enough to get started. You ought to
> be able to motivate at least a couple of people out of that hundred to
> contribute something and then others will follow.
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A couple I do but it does not keep a conversation going.
What I need is 100 trolls from the usernet if they could keep on
subject.
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| bernardZ 2007-11-22, 6:16 am |
| In article <47453f29$0$8686$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, blackcat2
@XXXXXXXXXX says...
> bernardZ wrote:
> : I write a company blog and boy is it tough to get material to put in
> : it!
> :
> : Can someone tell me how they do it.
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> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...article+content
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> The first result is
> http://www.goarticles.com/
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> They are pretty good but there are a bunch of others with searchable
> content.
> Make sure you read the rules/terms and realize that some are hack writers
> looking
> to benefit from free traffic by having their links in the author byline so
> read the article
> and think if it is good enough or research it before adding it to your site.
>
> Good luck,
> Heidi
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I have bookmarked it and will try it out. Obviously I have to rewrite
the article otherwise people will find out that I am copying.
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"bernardZ" <BernardZ@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.21aff47b7be302009896ab@news...
> What I need is 100 trolls from the usernet if they could keep on
> subject.
Just two are required. Add flames and just wait a while...
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| bernardZ wrote:
: I have bookmarked it and will try it out. Obviously I have to rewrite
: the article otherwise people will find out that I am copying.
no you don't have to rewrite it. I mean if you really want to I guess you
could
but those articles are provided for use by websites as content as is. No
rewriting is required.
You won't get busted for stealing someone else's work etc. because they want
you to use it
so they get their links out there.
I have used a few here and there as they were related to something on my
sites. I also wrote
one about dealing with orphaned kittens which I published and put out there
for other sites
to use linking back to my cat rescue website of course. =)
Glad I could help. =)
Heidi
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| Blinky the Shark 2007-11-22, 6:16 am |
| rf wrote:
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> "bernardZ" <BernardZ@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.21aff47b7be302009896ab@news...
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> Just two are required. Add flames and just wait a while...
Some heavy crossposting would be valuable, too. No, wait......can't do
that on a blog. Never mind. :)
--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project - http://improve-usenet.org
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| Dylan Parry 2007-11-22, 6:16 am |
| Heidi wrote:
> The first result is
> http://www.goarticles.com/
It's always worth checking that you really are allowed to use articles
that you find on sites like that on an article by article basis. It's
not that all article sites are unscrupulous, but /some/ are. If you're
at all worried about using an article, then attempt to contact the
original author for their explicit permission first, or just don't use it.
--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org | http://webpageworkshop.co.uk
The opinions stated above are not necessarily representative of
those of my cats. All opinions expressed are entirely your own.
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| Red E. Kilowatt 2007-11-23, 3:28 am |
| Heidi <blackcat2@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message:
47455044$0$19807$4c368faf@roadrunner.com,
> bernardZ wrote:
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> no you don't have to rewrite it. I mean if you really want to I guess
> you could
> but those articles are provided for use by websites as content as is.
> No rewriting is required.
> You won't get busted for stealing someone else's work etc. because
> they want you to use it
> so they get their links out there.
Better to rewrite it some, so that you're not penalized by Google for
duplicate content.
--
Red
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| bernardz 2007-11-23, 3:29 am |
| On Nov 23, 4:07 am, "Red E. Kilowatt" <spamt...@aww-faq.org> wrote:
> Heidi <blackc...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message:
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> 47455044$0$19807$4c368...@roadrunner.com,
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> Better to rewrite it some, so that you're not penalized by Google for
> duplicate content.
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> Red
There is also the old teachers trick where you grab some of the essay
and do a google search on it and checks to see if the students been
copying.
My readers will do the same.
As well as that my blog is suppose to be original from the company.
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| Heidi 2007-11-23, 10:18 pm |
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: On Nov 23, 4:07 am, "Red E. Kilowatt" <spamt...@aww-faq.org> wrote:
:: Better to rewrite it some, so that you're not penalized by Google for
:: duplicate content.
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:: Red
How do they penalize you? I haven't noticed any dire consequences in my
listings
because of using mass distributed articles..?
Heidi
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| Red E. Kilowatt 2007-11-24, 3:16 am |
| Heidi <blackcat2@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message:
4747778d$0$19580$4c368faf@roadrunner.com,
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> How do they penalize you? I haven't noticed any dire consequences in
> my listings
> because of using mass distributed articles..?
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> Heidi
Google claims that they only penalize a site if there is intent to
deceive, but when it indexes pages with essentially the same content
it's going to pick one of those pages as the authoritative source for
that content and ignore all the rest. So while there may not be any
penalty, there is also no benefit to to search engine ranking in
republishing such articles.
http://www.google.com/support/webma...nt&topic=&type=
"If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show
the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search,
which may or may not be the version you'd prefer"
--
Red
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