Looking for content for site

[corn2015]

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One of my clients wants a site that includes helpful articles. content, and news from a specific niche (the higher education market). Are there sites out there that give away free content for usage on your site?

Corn

[CleverPhD]

There are lots, but I would not use them.  You would just be copying articles from other places and would not be able to gain any good rankings with copied content.   Tell them if they want a site with helpful articles, content and news, they need to invest in resources to produce that content.   Google does not want to rank content/pages that it has seen in a bunch of other places.

[EGOL]

I agree with CleverPhD.  Google hunts down duplicate content and filters as much of it as possible from the search results pages.

If this business serves the higher education market the staff at the business should be scholarly people  who can write this stuff by the ream.  If they want a good unique website to represent them properly they should faint before allowing anyone else to write it.

[NEdocs]

Hey Corn,

Definitely try to avoid the copypasta - it is not going to help your readers anyway. My suggestion for some free great content - contact some subject matter experts and see if they would contribute to your site. There are plenty of bloggers and (I am positive) teachers/professors that would be willing to contribute their knowledge...most likely completely free of charge. Doing some proactive outreach could not only yield great and relevant content - its going to help you build brand recognition, potentially improve your inbound link profile, and help pull in new potential visitors (pulling from the influence of your content sources...people love to share their own published work).

Best,

Christopher