Blog w/Free Articles or Oursource Articles? Worth my time as a muse?

[rgraner]

Has anyone utilized those "free articles" on their blog before to beef up their content? If so, how did it work for you?

I noticed that those "free articles" include their own adsense inside them and take up two spots of ads most of the time. Since *I think* you can only show three advertisements per page it seems like I'm swapping the free for the adsense.

I could hire out fresh articles to be written overseas of course but to populate a new blog with fresh articles, it must take like 25 new items to be considered beefy enough for search engines.

I'm looking for someone who's done this already and can speak to it's validity, personally, writing is not my cup of tea so I'm definitely going to outsource it or utilize the "free articles".

All comments are appreciated in advance...

With Gratitude

[cartoonfan1983]

Free articles are usually a bad idea because other blogs will possibly use the same articles. If multiple pages on the web show up in Google, your site is considered duplicate content and both sites are ignored moreso than sites with brand new content.

My question to you is how would this be considered a muse? Are you just going to use the Adsense money?

[rgraner]

Yes, adsense or affiliate programs to go onto the site and the site itself is of niche variety but again, writing / content for the site is the issue.

I'm not a writer and don't want to become one so now that I wouldn't utilize "free articles" for exactly what you just said, it looks like I'll have to outsource writing which could get expensive or build the site socially where it's user generated content which is a different set of parameters to think about (spam or flaming comments, etc).

I will have to re-think this kind of muse, it appears to me that many people are already doing it and if I'm to compete I should come up with a more original idea / niche