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3 Simple Steps To Get Free Original Content for Your Website
Blowing Your Own HornOpportunity Assistance Business Resource Center http://www.opportunityassistance.com At first you ..... ...... you can assume the content is of a high standard. If in doubt, sit down and read the article, you should be able to judge for yourself if it provides something of quality.
Step 3: Ask for permission to publish the content.
This is the tricky part. Write out an email template to send to the author of the article explaining who you are and what you want to do with the article. Be sure to be completely honest and tell them that your site is commercial although you will not be selling or making any direct money from the article. Make sure you state that the article will be clearly sourced with a link back to the author's homepage. Here is an example from an email I used:
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Dear INSERT AUTHOR NAME,
My name is INSERT YOUR NAME and I am the owner of an INSERT YOUR
BUSINESS located in INSERT YOUR CITY, COUNTRY AND URL. We are
looking for resources to add to a new online library that we are
developing. I came across your INSERT ARTICLE NAME and I believe it
would be perfect for our library. In fact I think it could be one of
the main features, if you are willing to share it. We will of course
list you as the author and link directly back to your website.
The library will be completely free to use and we are presently
putting together a collection of quality articles to help our
visitors with INSERT YOUR SUBJECT AREA (E.G. TENNIS GAME). We do
not intend to make direct profits from the library, it is intended
to add value to our website and hopefully indirectly increase the
sales of our INSERT WHAT YOUR BUSINESS DOES. The business is a
commercial enterprise. If you have any questions regarding my
business or intentions please contact me.
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Be certain to sign it off personally and make yourself available for any questions. I also request a response from the author regardless of their decision so you can be certain the email made it through. You have to ensure the author has some potential value from allowing his/her article to be re-published. In this case it can be fame and traffic back to his/her website.
This technique will not always work. Every single author may reject you, some may never respond. Your business may operate in an industry where there just isn't any good individual authors writing good content that isn't in some way linked to a commercial enterprise. To get around this you can offer to buy the content if you have the available funds, but I advise against paying much unless the article really is top class and not distributed anywhere else.
I sent out about ten emails and four authors agreed to have their articles published. This provided me with thousands of words of quality free content. Best of all these articles are probably only published in a handful of places, perhaps only on my site and the author's site. It was definitely worth the time and effort I put in and I recommend you give it a try too, you may be surprised at how generous people can be.
About the Author By Yaro Starak
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com
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