How to *NOT* Become a Writer (Getting fresh content…)

by Michelle MacPhearson

Let’s talk content.

Content creation is the BANE of many webmaster’s existence.

You KNOW the search engines (particularly Google) absolutely *LOVE* it when your site has lots of fresh, updated and quality content.

And you might also be one of the many people (like me!) who doesn’t really like writing all those articles.

….I don’t blame you. If you wanted to be writing all day, you would’ve become a writer!

One of the cool things that makes it a lot easier for you is that the search engines really like multimedia content – sometimes even more than they like traditional “article” type stuff.

So you can increase your rankings by:

  1. Writing & publishing new, quality content on your site more often
  2. Publishing multimedia content to your blog more often

Me? I prefer to publish multimedia content rather than write a big ol’ blog post. It’s less work, right?

So one of the things you can do is go to Flickr and find photos that are licensed for commercial use, and use them (always attribute the author)… There’s a tool to do this very quickly. And you can go to YouTube and embed videos into your blog that are relevant to your niche.

Just add a couple of sentences to describe the picture or video so that there are some words on the page, and you’ve got it made.

Making 7 of these kinds of posts & scheduling them to post in the future (for a whole week of fresh content) should take you 30 minutes to an hour, if you’re really picky. A whole week’s worth of content that quick? Perfect!

With this method, you’re not only posting content more often, which Google ADORES, but you’re also posting multimedia content, which makes them think you’re the cat’s meow…

And as you do so, your site rises in the rankings, you get more traffic, that traffic clicks through to buy and you make more.

We cover these and other content creation strategies inside Crowd Mountain – get your $1 trial RIGHT NOW and peruse the member’s area for the secrets and tricks to make this work for you with even less work.

After you’ve got your CrowdMountain account, turn an eye to your site and put together a weeks worth of posts using the method outlined above.

When you’ll have the week free to dive into the first Bootcamp Module!

In the member’s area you’ll find extra solutions for content creation, here’s just two:

  1. A private, not-available-to-the-public plugin that will help you stay on track when creating your content, making sure you’re targeting the most relevant and profitable keywords each and every time, while picking up the long tail without any extra effort.
  2. The “Cheap-O-Content Creation Series,” where we talk about how to get actual article content drip fed to your site for as little as $0.25 an article – on any topic.

We just added a new feature too – “Crowd Mountain Connect.” Details are inside the members area, I can’t wait to see you there!

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robkat September 3, 2009 at 6:23 pm

Hi Michelle,

Great post as always, thank you. Could you please let me know more about the tool for attributing photos from Flickr? I've searched but haven't found anything. This tool would save me so much time – at the moment I put all info in a spreadsheet but it's getting unwieldy now, too many photos.

Thank you also for the great videos in the 30DC 2009. It's wonderful to see new presenters.

Kathy

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Michael Netsch September 5, 2009 at 3:43 pm

Hi Kathy,

I always use the Zemanta plugin (for Wordpress or Firefox) http://www.zemanta.com/
It not only searches for images related to your content automatically it also attributes them automatically.

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Eric Gesinski September 9, 2009 at 12:10 pm

That's a great tip. Getting photos is a quick way to go, although you've motivated me to get going on more video. Stacking the posts ahead of time to compress the expenditure of time into one day (ideally, within one hour) is a great idea, as well. Thanks!

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Jim Hardin December 1, 2009 at 9:06 pm

Hi Michelle
Just stumbled upon your site. Lots of great information. You know I thought it was all about writing posts to your blog, but recently I tried what you had said and found something on youtube that I liked added a few lines and then posted it. Bingo a post was done. I do like writing posts but sometimes its nice to be able to put one together quickly. Then though after that quick post I acutally used the video and created more posts around it. So needless to say the quick video post turned into more posts which is a good thing.

Jim

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Warren Miller December 10, 2009 at 7:10 am

Great ideas! We’re always trying to add new blog posts, but never thought to post multimedia found on another site. This will save us a bunch of time. Thanks!

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