Public Domain Content
While auto-generating sites from articles and RSS feeds are all the rage, and fast , nothing beats old-fashioned manual site creation for the long-term. Auto-generation typically requires a program or script. But unless you roll your own, your moneymaking sites are leaving a footprint (don't believe everything you read, they are trying to sell software) that the search engines will catch up with in the next 6-12 months; mark these words (this comes from personal experience).
Oh, and then there's the pesky problem of duplicate content. Type in a sentence from one of your article pages into Google and see how many other sites have that exact same article - word for word. If you don't care about long-term results, stop here and you will still enjoy short-term financial gain. We have done that before, too, and knew what we were getting, so we were OK with it. But if you are concerned about longevity, and all you need is some content to work with, we have over 100+ fantastic resources for you.
First of all, they are free . Free from cost, free from copyright (requires a little due diligence), and free from competition for the most part, because it's not automated. We have included a wide variety of content sources: video/movies, images, graphics, manuals, text sources, information, tips; pretty much anything you would need on hundreds of topics. This is hours of research you won't have to do. Oh yeah, and we have listed dozens of discovery keywords that you can use to find more .
Where is all this stuff from? Mainly Public Domain (PD) sources - groan! Wait a minute.we are not talking about wikis (not PD anyway) or Project Gutenberg - bleh. Did you know that US Government publications, including many, many websites are public domain? We have a little search trick that lets you find a US government webpage(s) that cover the topic you need, that's listed, too. If you aren't sure, US government sites have very clear copyright and terms pages on their sites. Look at them, because not all US state/local government sites allow copyright-free use.
Then, did you know that in the USA , any book published before 1922 is in the public domain, and actually there are thousands of books published past 1922 that didn't renew their copyright in time and fell into the PD as well. Some of these PD books are online, or available compiled into a collection. Keep in mind, compilations are a new work and are copyrighted , but the individual pre-1922 books included are not. To be on the safe side, you can often purchase the original , hard copy pre-1922 book online for your collection, and keep that in the event you are accused of copyright infringement from scraping the text from someone else.
Creative Commons licensing has the option for the author to allow commercial use, and there's quite a bit available. Just take an extra minute to verify what the license allows - sometimes it's only a link or a credit back to the author. The same thing for Flickr photos which also use Creative Commons; some of the photos only require a credit back to the photographer. We included on the list a link to a handy search form that allows you to query only commercially allowed CC licensed sources.
But if that seems too much for the lazier sort, we have other sources that don't require copyright checks, but it's still up to you to figure it out what's legal and what's not in the end.
First of all, some resources on US Copyright ( beware! doesn't apply to all countries) and alternative content licensing:
- US Copyright office
- US Copyright and the Public Domain
- Creative Commons licensing
The rest of the sources are here and completely free, no sign-ups, nada. We like that. :^)
PS. Don't be a dork and just scrape thousands of pages and throw them up with AdSense - or what's the point? We're back to duplicate content garbage and you might as well go back to scraping article sites. Be smart and creative. You'll smile all the way to the bank.
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