Using articles on your website is a great way to get free content for your website. There are articles for virtually every topic you can imagine on the many different articles sites.

In my experience the two most popular articles sites are www.ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com. These two have driven far more traffic then many of the other lesser known article sites combined.

There are drawbacks with using free articles though. The biggest problem with using free articles is it’s necessary to leave a small authors box at the end of the article linking back to the authors website. Additionally, articles you use are often also used by many other websites. This use of duplicate content can get you penalized by google which can result in your page ending up in Google’s supplemental index.

Google’s supplemental index is where sites using the same content often end up. Those sites that are the first to have the article in question or are deemed most trusted by Google are the ones who do not go into the index. For this reason it’s often a good idea to add additional content to the article page in order to avoid any penalties.

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