Having fresh content on your site is not easy for the average web site owner, unless writing is your profession. One of the easiest ways to get it is to visit other sites that offer interesting articles supporting your topic.

By scrolling down to the bottom of most articles, you will find the author’s copyright information, permission statement, and instructions for using an article on your site or in your newsletters. Most authors are delighted when you choose to use their material, as long as you give them credit.

The main reason you want to add new material to your web site is to heighten your position with search engines – and search engines love new content. The older your information, the less likely you will be at the top of the search.

So, if you would like to have new articles on your site, you are more than welcome to link to mine. The following information will help you to not only add my content to your site but other articles, as well.

Let Your Readers Know Where to Find Your New Articles

Before you begin, it’s probably wise to create a "New Articles" spot on your own web site. To make it more inviting for your guests, you might want to create categories to help them find information faster. Remember, the easier you make it for your visitors, the more they will return to your site for updates.

Why not use this article for practice and have new content on your site within minutes? Simply go to your site, right now, and create your Articles section, if you don’t have one. Using your BACK Arrow at the top of the screen, you’re right back here and you can follow the directions below. Or, if you strayed just a little, click on the View menu and click on Goto to locate this page. Use your FORWARD arrow to return to the page you created for entering new articles! Wasn’t that easy!

Now that you're ready to add new content to your site, the following 10 steps are not only easy to follow but should become second-nature after you've done the first three or four articles. These instructions are for those of you using Internet Explorer. If you have another system for the copy-and-paste feature, please follow those instructions.

Ten Steps to New Article Content for Your Web Site

1. Visit the site of the article you want to link to and bookmark it so that it is easier to return to during the process.
2. Highlight and copy (Ctrl+C keys on your keyboard) the headline and two or three lines of the first paragraph.
3. Return to your web site, locate your “Articles” page or position, and paste (Ctrl+V keys on your keyboard) the headline and beginning paragraph of the article onto your web site.
4. At the end of the paragraph, type the words "Full Article." (This will be for your hyperlink.)
5. Using your bookmark or the “Back” arrow, go to the article location site, highlight and copy (Ctrl+C) the URL address at the top of the page.
6. Return to your own web page where you pasted the headline and first paragraph of the article.
7. Highlight the words "Full Article" that you typed and right-click to bring up the action menu.
8. Find the word "Hyperlink" and click on it. A new window will open. In the “Address” text box at the bottom, paste (Ctrl+V) the article URL address you copied.
9. Under “Link to,” on the left-hand side of the new window, make sure that the "Existing File or Web Page" button is chosen.
10. If you want to keep your visitors at your web site, you can click on the "Target Frame" button on the right-hand side. When the “Set Target Frame” window opens, choose "New Window" from the list and click OK.

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