10 Unique Ways To Get Free Content For Your Blog | Beta Compression
By: Beta Compression
Tags: Blog Content, Content Creation, Blogging Tips, Blog

Surely all of you know by now that “Content is King” when it comes to the internet. So no matter how much you invest in your SEO, PPC, and Social Media campaigns, you still need to make sure that your website has relevant and engaging content.

But with that being said, creating engaging content for your website can be hard and time-consuming. Now outsourcing is an option, but it won’t be cheap, in fact, it can rip a hole through your pocket.

This is why we have put together a short list of some of the best and unique ways to generate free content for your blog. By free content, we mean anything from basic images and graphics to full-fledged professionally written blog posts.

If this is something that interests you, then open up that notepad, (or pen and paper — whichever floats your boat), as we are diving straight into our list of the 10 Unique Ways To Get Free Content For Your Blog.

Create Graphics With Canva

Canva is a web-based tool for graphic designing. It is extremely intuitive with plenty of easy to use features and a bunch of ready-made templates to help you create stunning graphics for your site. This includes anything from the basic featured images for your posts, ad banners, background images, and much more.

Note: Canva is a freemium tool. This means it is free to use but also bundles in some premium features which you need to pay to unlock.

Open A “Write For Us” Page

If you like to invest more into the marketing aspect of your site rather than content creation, then you will benefit from opening up a “Write For Us” page. It is basically a page for inviting writers to guest blog on your site in exchange for exposure. However, you do need to have a solid Social Media presence and a high amount of traffic already coming into your site. Or else, people are unlikely to write for you for free in hopes of getting future fame.

Browse Stock Image Websites

There are plenty of stock image websites out there with a great collection of awesome images properly categorized and easy to access. Many of these images fall under the CCO (creative commons) licensing which makes it free to use as long as you provide due credit.

Here are some examples of free stock image websites you should definitely check out:

Don’t Forget About Wikimedia Commons

And speaking of creative commons licensing, don’t forget about Wikimedia Commons. It is basically a sort of “Wikipedia” for multilingual media content. You are sure to find some useful media files here that you can use on your blog.

Create Surveys/Quizzes

Surveys and quizzes can be great fun for your users, where they will willingly give you access to useful statistics. This can help serve as an insight into what your audience wants. Thus, helping you write a blog post more oriented towards your users’ tastes.

Now, if you don’t know how to create a survey or quiz on your website or blog, then there is no need to worry. You can achieve the same results by leveraging social media. Simply post a question or a poll, and see what everyone thinks.

Subscribe To Blogger Linkup

Blogger Linkup offers a newsletter subscription program where they will send you emails every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. These emails help blog owners and blog writers connect with each other. As a blog owner, you can leverage the platform to ask for the type of guest post content you are looking for, and if lucky, you might get a response from an interested writer.

Use Online Article Directories

Article Directories and Article Repositories are just awesome. These are pretty much the same as stock image websites, but for written content. You will find blogs and articles spanning across different topics and niches. If you find something that you like, you can republish it on your site along with due credit to the original author.

Here are few notable Article Directories worth your time:

And many more.

Use Online Idea Generator Tools For Bloggers

If by content, you need ideas or topics for your blog then that can be easily handled using the multitude of title generator and/or blog idea generator tools in the market. All you need to do is insert a keyword or key-phrase into the online tool and it will start generating a bunch of topics (or ideas) to write about on your blog.

A few notable idea generator tools include:

Try Newsjacking

Newsjacking is the art of adding your own personal touch to a piece of major news that everyone is talking about and then publishing it as content on your blog. Your loyal readers will be more than happy to see you talking about current affairs and sharing your point of view regarding the current situation — whatever it may be.

Not only will you never run of content ideas (at least until the news companies don’t run out of content), but also create a more personal connection with your reader base.

Re-purpose Multimedia Content

Imagine listening to an awesome YouTube Video and wanting to publish something similar on your site. Well, you can! All you have to do is restructure it into article/blog-post format. This method is also not limited to YouTube, nor Videos alone. You can even re-purpose podcasts, or even break up documentaries into a series of blog posts. But do remember to make few tweaks to avoid plagiarising before publishing it on your blog.

Conclusion

High-quality content is the key to boosts your site’s ranking on SERPs. It helps enhance user engagement and enables you to drive more organic traffic to your website. More importantly, if the content is great (such as an infographic), one can also use it for link building purposes. Thus, if you are struggling with creating content, then try out these unique ways to get free content for your blog.

Have you tried any of these techniques and found them useful? Let us know in the comment below!