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If you want to build a dynamic web site or blog and be successful in your Internet endeavors, you need some measure of search engine traffic. Though there are many ways to get traffic to a site especially through social marketing, search engines like Google and Yahoo still play a very vital role in the success or failure of what you do online. One of the better ways to make sure you stay on the good side of these important entities in the life of your business, is to write only 100% original content for all of your blogs, web sites and interactions on the web.

Besides wanting to please the search engines so you will get the traffic you need, your visitors will also demand original content. The average internet surfer spends many hours a week online and they may read hundreds of content sources in their travels throughout the web. It may not happen at first, but when you get a steady stream of traffic, your visitors will begin to notice that they are not reading fresh content when they come to your site.

There are many sites on the Internet put up by people that only want to make money and not add any value to the web. You may have come across several of these sites in your web travels that seem to be getting all their content only from other peoples work. These sites usually have quite a few Google Adsense blocks at the very top then a few banners in the sidebar and even more beneath the Adsense ads. Then you may see anything from what appears to be several news articles, to information from other blogs that are just a repetition of already published content available elsewhere on the web. These are what’s known as scraper sites and they usually crash and burn as fast as people can build them.

You may also see other sites that are nothing more than a storehouse of articles devoted to a particular niche, with individual pages of content wrapped around an Adsense block that don’t offer any new information. While an article or two written by someone else may be used by some people to enhance content already on their site, sites that offer nothing but articles copied straight from article directories will never be indexed to any degree or provide their creators the benefits they had intended.

Some people do it mainly through not being aware of the consequences, but I wouldn’t even recommend getting any articles copied from article directories. What you want to offer your visitors and potential customers is the unique perspective you have on the information they’re looking for. Building a long term business is really the only way to do things on the web today.

Back many years ago, affiliate marketers could throw up a few pages copied from another source, arrange them in a unique way and they’d start making money quickly. However, around 4 to 5 years ago, search engines became much smarter and were programmed to be less tolerant of duplicate content, content scrapers and just general garbage clogging up their indexes. The people that had solid, original, content based sites weathered the cleaning out of the web, those that were only around to make a quick buck started to see their revenue dry up and they were off to some more devious project.

Search engines continue to evolve and even though they at times seem to be harder and harder to please, they normally do a good job of catching those that are copying others and aren’t offering any value to the web. The easiest way to avoid the ever scrutinizing eye of Google and the other search engines is to always offer your best, original content. It will likely please the search bots and your visitors and make for a solid web presence that you will reap the benefits of.