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

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A blog must contain daily updates to stay current with the blogging community. Free articles can provide quality updates for your blog. Follow these steps to decide whether you should obtain free content for your blog.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Step1

Find out if you can create a forum within your blog. Forum visitors will provide daily updates without the use of free articles.

Step2

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.

Step3

Estimate how many 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

Copy edit all free articles for spelling and grammatical mistakes.
Review the policies of the article directories. They may require you 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 invite legal action.