It’s not easy coming up with fresh content all the time. You have to think about the topic, research it, and then get down to writing readable pillar content.
One alternative (not very viable) is to thieve other people’s content and copy/paste it. Or you can go to a free content service and use their content under the terms and conditions that they specify.
Whatever the source - if you decide to use someone else’s content, you can copy/paste manually or you can autoblog. Autoblogging takes one or more RSS feeds and uses them to populate a blog.
There is a way that you can do this without displaying the result as your own work - and I’ve done it on my Blogging in the News page on this blog (instructions in Blogging on Full Auto). Basically, I take a Google News feed using the feedlist plugin for WordPress and present it through a page template - look for the RSS link on the left hand menu in the Google News results page.
Some other potential sources for RSS autopopulation of a News page are:
- Yahoo News
- the result from Google Blog Search
- Reuters news feeds
- Wikipedia offers RSS syndication for some content (like specific page changes and new pages)
- for Australians (or those who blog about Australia) there are a range of ABC News RSS feeds (and Podcast feeds too)
- News.com.au also provides a range of feeds
Whatever your niche, there is probably an RSS feed somewhere that matches it.
Note: I’ve entered this post in Darren Rowse’s 31 Days group writing project.
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