The problem starts when you have written a lot of articles over the years and you put these on your site. They have probably been grabbed by other site builders from these article directories. This may be content that you had created entirely on your own but because you submitted them to these directories they are now all over the place. Some marketers sell these articles telling you that all you have to do is ad your info to them as the author but these articles were probably given to so many people that unless you rewrite them word for word that these will be seen as duplicate content.

So how do we put together a site where the search engines will see them as unique without duplicate content? First what you do is to choose all the keywords that will be used for your site. Then you will make use of a service that acts as a ghostwriter. I've seen sites that offer 100 articles each being at least 400 words for as little as $5 each but these may end up being article that were put together by some garbage software that are not readable by humans. With these you will need to rewrite them so that a visitor to your site will be able to understand them.

You can also find individual ghostwiters using a service like Elance or Guru. Now when doing this expect to may a little more than these junk article sites charge. I would first look at the other listings and see what the going rates are. You can see what other companies are offering for a ghostwriter and what ghostwriters are offering to charge for creating an article for people. I would start

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