The Disadvantages to Using Free Article Content for Your Article Marketing

By Dexter Vasa


Other web masters try to use articles from free content directories to have visitors to their site and make some cash. This is mainly vital for people who have just started working as an affiliate for several businesses and do not yet have any financing, yet need to build small niche websites to visitors to their website so that they can start making sales revenue.

Although this can sometimes be the only option for those who are running on a non-existent budget, it isn't a way that will successfully create your web site or sales revenue. There are some potential reasons why this can be harmful to your business building efforts.

Problem #1 - Search Engines

Search engines will just look down upon your web site if it has the very same replicated content than other sites. The greater sites that share your content, the less likely you will achieve good search engine rankings.

Good search engine rankings are essential in getting visitors to your site so that they have a chance to click on your affiliate links. If you get no visitors, you get no sales. Working on the search engine optimization of your site so that you will eventually be high enough in the results to get customers, should be priority one.

Problem #2 - Getting Website Visitors to Click

Though getting your website on top of search engine result pages and getting website visitors is hard work, unfortunately this is only half of the battle. You must likewise be able to persuade those visitors to click on your affiliate links. In case your visitors see the same content they've seen on a multitude of other web sites, they'll be very least likely to click on your links. This is since many people want to buy things which are recommended by people that they trust or whom they feel like are an expert on the subject.

If your content is just duplicated from other sites, you will be exposed as someone who does not really know what they are talking about and therefore will not look heavily on your product recommendations. This will reduce the number of website visitors who will be willing to click through.

Problem #3 - Author Bylines

Many free content articles are just given to you if you conform to place the authors byline under the article (you can get into trouble if you try to use it without following the stipulated rules). This presents a problem because a lot of author bylines include links. When a reader gets done reading a very intriguing article, there is a strong possibility that they may click the author's byline link rather than your affiliate links. This is the whole reason why these authors offer free content to start with, to ensure that they can get their name and links out there to the public. Using this type of content may mean shooting yourself in the foot and losing possible profitable web site visitors.

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