How to Determine if You Should Use Free Articles in Your Blog

A blog needs to have daily updates in order to stay current with the blogging community. Free articles can provide quality updates for your blog. On the other hand, free articles can be penalized by the search engines because they are duplicate content.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Identify if you can create a forum within your blog. Forum visitors will provide daily updates without the use of free articles.
   
2. Evaluate your ability to provide fresh content to the blog on a daily basis. If you do not have time to perform this task, you may need to use free articles.
   
3. Evaluate the number of competitors you have in your blog niche. If you have a large number of competitors, you may want to use free articles to bolster the content on your blog.
   

Tips & Warnings

• Check all free articles for spelling and grammatical mistakes.
• Review the article directories' policies. You may need to include a directory link in the author's bio.
• Avoid posting more than three free articles per week for your blog. Search engines will penalize you for more than this amount.
• Use your favorite software to ensure originality of all articles before posting them. Plagiarized articles could lead to legal troubles.