Creating Your Own Website Content
It’s always a good idea to add new content to your site. The best kind of content is some that you create yourself. There are many different ways to do it and I am always on the lookout for some new ideas to create and promote my content. Most if these promotion ideas involve sharing your content with other sites.
While sharing your information is something I strongly believe in, my tip for you today is to always post your original content on your site first before you share it with anyone. The reason I say this is that while I don’t believe there is a duplicate content penalty that you hear about these days from Google or any other search engine they do give more weight to the site that publishes the content first and not as much importance to the next site.
As far as developing new content, here’s a good post on the 10e20.com site called “10 Helpful Hints for Creating Strong Web Site Content”
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