A fellow asked a question today about a report he had read, where a Guru had talked about making large amounts of money by putting up lots of web sites.

Unfortunately, he had left out a tiny detail – what to fill them with!

A site needs to be filled, and filled with unique content (if you’re a copy of someone else’s site, why would people go to yours first?). After all, a WordPress blog can be set up in 5 minutes – so content really is the main issue, not the site.

But what to put into it? Some recommendations:

• Public domain content. There’s other rules, but roughly speaking, anything published before 1923 qualifies. However, people can easily copy your content with impunity.
• Article content from free online article sites. Many of these sites have articles available for free republishing (such as my own, FreeWordZ.com). However, you’re not the only one using them, so you risk duplication.
• Content generators. Various kinds exist, but these are basically programs that take other’s content, and regurgitate it in a format for your site. Search engines tend to dislike automatic generators like this (since they often provide no real content, just rearrangements of other’s), so you run the risk of having your site removed.
• Your own content. The preferred choice for uniqueness and value, liked by search engines everywhere – but more work.

This is just a brief list, but it does show that sites CAN be filled – and sometimes quite easily…