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March 7, 2010
There are plenty of ways that you can add content to your site on a regular basis entirely automatically, particularly by using specific plug-ins which are designed to populate your site with content.
For example, if you install the free Simple RSS plug-in, it will collect information from any number of RSS feeds, and publish them on your site automatically as often as you like. This is not necessarily unique content, but it is nevertheless valuable content that can be automatically added to your site every few hours.
Another plug-in that can automatically populate your content is Caffeinated Content. This plug-in not only finds keyword related content for your site in the form of written articles and videos, it also adds comments and questions to this content from what are apparently third-party sources, which presents you (or at least, your assistant) with the opportunity of adding lots of counter-comments (i.e. more unique content).
The final plug-in to consider is Zip Poster, which is a plug-in that enables you to upload a zip folder containing dozens or even hundreds of written content pieces for your site and then punch in a beginning and end date. Between those dates, the plug-in will automatically publish your articles at irregular intervals, and then ‘ping’ the major search resources and directory sites to tell them that there is new content available.
For example, if you use caffeinated content and include RSS on your site, then you can have that site populated with content in a matter of minutes. The alternative is to do everything manually, and that is going to take several hours, and if those are hours for which you are paying someone else, you can immediately see how the plug-in pays for itself in next to no time.
It is the same story with Zip Poster, but with an additional twist. If you are going to outsource the writing of your blog content, then there are economies of scale to be considered. For example if you ask someone to write five piece of content, they might charge you $25 (i.e. $5 a time), whereas if you asked them for 100 content pieces at the same time, you can probably bargain the price down to $3 or $3.50 a piece.
If they then deliver the whole thing in one zip folder, your assistant uploads that one folder, and you have unique content ready to be published to your blog every three or four days for the next year (and the major directories and search resources will be automatically ‘pinged’ every time)!
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