Dynamic Content Ideas from Virtually Ignorant

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Add Free Content to your Site

For most web sites it's the unique content they develop that separates them from the pack. However, not all content needs to be created by you from scratch. There are a number of places on the web where you can get free content to enhance your site, and a number of others that will give you tools that make content development easier.

Bravenet.com offers a huge (almost daunting) array of website content tools. You can host greeting cards at your site, a very popular feature. Many other tools include:

Stock market indices and tickers,
daily cartoons,
mini polls,
news headlines,
and more...

Their services are ad sponsored, so expect to see ads on everything. You can also pay a reasonable annual fee to have ads taken off of all services that they host (be careful, since the "third party services" are not included in the ad-free fee and it's hard to tell what is third party and what is not).

Discussion boards make great content! For an example of one of our favorite discussion boards check out A Best Web™ which runs a discussion board specializing in affiliate marketing. A discussion board also promotes a sense of community around your website as well as providing fresh content that you yourself needn't write. See our page on discussion boards for more information on setting up your own board.

More ideas for free content can be found on these websites:

Free Sticky Web -- A large array of free and low cost content that can be added to your website.

Ezine Articles -- If you are looking for quality content that you can add to your site, you'll find articles on just about everything at Ezinearticles.com. You can also publish articles there with a link back to your site in the author bio box. Follow the rules and always give credit to the author and ezinearticles.com, and you'll have content at your fingertips.

Web-Source Syndicator -- One of our favorites. You choose the subject, and with a few lines of javascript you can have weekly updated relevant material. That's what we use for our weeklyweb design article, design tips article, and marketing article.

Idea Marketers -- A variety of services for both content writers and webmasters looking for content.

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