Are you trying to make money using articles on your website or blog? In this article I want to point out a reason not to use articles if they are not your own.

Are you having trouble keeping your blog or website fresh? By fresh I mean new content. Content that a visitor to your site would come back to see as well as content a search engine will come back and spider.

How would you like to be a search engine. Your job is to look for current content that is relevant to the websites you are searching and then tell your visitors where to find it. It’s a tough job because there are billions of pages of content to look at and some website owners just keep rehashing the same old crap over and over

If you want to be a hero to a search engine and keep your traffic coming back to your blog or website then use articles to do it. You may immediately discount this notion because you can not write.

So you go to IdeaMarketers.com, or some popular article directory, and you find an article you like. Then you copy and paste it in your blog for everyone to read. You now feel you have added fresh content for eveyone to see.

Actually you have added duplicate content because their is nothing unique about an old article that is probably already all over the Internet. If you are going to use old articles at lease write and introduction to the article. Then add a paragraph that is unique in the middle and finally summarize it.

Now you have given yourself a chance that a search engine will view it as somewhat unique. But I will be honest here. I do not like using other people’s articles because of the resource box. When you use their articles you have to keep everything intact including the resource box.

In a resource box the author is giving you his website url as well as a reason to leave your web page and come to his. That is what he supposed to do. Why work to get visitors to your website and then give them away to another author.

Here is a better way to make money using articles.

1. Write your own.

2. Hire someone to write for you.

If you hire a writer be sure you are getting exclusive rights to the article you are buying. This means you get to copyright them 100% as your own. These are not private label right articles that are being sold over and over, even in a limited quantity.

This is now fresh content and it is owned by you. Now when you submit your articles you get to include your resource box. You get the credit when a search engine spiders your website.

I understand that some people can not write for themselves. Because the internet is all about providing useful information if you want a profitable business, and potential free traffic in the future, you have to address your content needs.

Hiring a writer to make money using articles is a relatively cheap investment in your business and one that can continue to pay off in the future as well.

One other thing. We recently started a program called, “Hands Off Article Marketing”, to write and submit articles for internet marketers who do not want to do it themselves. Check it out is you want to take your business to the next level.

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