Content on my site?
Question – Is it important to add new articles to your web site for SEO
Answer – Yes, it is. Search engines like up to date web site with new up to the date information
Question – Is it better to write your own content?
Answer – Yes it is better to write your own content. If you can get somebody to write some unique content for your site it will be just as good. PLR articles work but might not be as effective because it is duplicate content and some search engines penalize your site for duplicate content.
Question – I am playing around with WordPress, any idea where I can get help to get started?
Answer – Yes. In order to get started you must first install the correct plugins for SEO, security, sitemaps, navigation, etc. Then you have to choose a suitable theme and only then do you start adding content to your site. You can buy my DVD at http://www.createyourownwebsite.co.za where I show you step by step how to do that.
Internet Marketing | Pieter | January 19, 2010
Cobus I have read many different opinions about the duplicate content question. What makes sense to me is that the search engines will look at the number of times an article has been duplicated. If the article appears on two or three sites it is no big deal.
What many article writers do is to keep all the good articles for their own sites for 100 unique content and write shorter and less good articles for the article sites.
If you want to use pre-written articles on your site you must also have some original content, using only pre-written articles on your entire site is not always a good idea, it can help you to get going but you must add your own content as well.
Thanks Pieter, I get the picture. Write the real article as content on my own site, with a shadow version thereof for publishing on other sites as external link generators. Regards
On the matter of content and articles, I am aware of 3 ways of using articles:
1) Write and use it as content on my own web and blog.
2) Write and publish it to sites like ezinearticles.com
or goarticles.com to build external links and to get exposure to search engines.
3) A combination of the two above.
I am not sure which of 1, or 2 above will have the best result in SEO.
My other concern is that if the same article (that I wrote) is published on my site and published on a few publisher’s sites, could my site be labelled as using duplicate content and penalised by search engines?