There's a lot of different types of content online. Let's generally talk about articles for creating content on blogs and sites.

I like to think of content in two terms:

1. Good, non-spammy content to post on other sites for traffic and linking purposes.
   
   
2. My best content for my own sites, blogs, newsletters, etc.
   

This video has some good tips for setting up a Pinterest account including boards and pins. It also has some excellent tips for established Pinterest accounts as well as mistakes to avoid.

Pinterest SEO: How to Optimize Your Content
 

Here's a good intro video for using press releases to drive traffic. IMO the main take away from the video is to use press releases as direct sources of traffic and not as a link building method or as a means to get the press and media to contact you.
 


 
 
I disagree slightly that links picked up by Google have zero SEO benefits because they are nofollow. IMO a good, natural mixture of links, which includes nofollow links, will help your over-all linking profile.

I'm not sure what further press release strategies he includes in his advanced (pay for) training, but one important thing I want to add is that you can, and probably should, treat your press releases that are picked up on authority sites as "parasite pages" and do some modest linking and social sharing of the press releases. If you are a member of The Frontier or have Pheed Me Traffic, add your indexed press releases to these resources.

One tip he shows in the video can be taken  a step further. Check to see how quickly press release submission sites (free and paid) are indexed by Google. Do this by performing a google likeite:prlog.orgThen sort the results by the Past 24 Hours or even Past Hour to see how quickly (if) Google picks up press release submissions.

I'm not an expert on press releases but also check if they allow YouTube videos. This can be a good way to increase your YouTube and Google video rankings with external embeds, links and views.

Top Secret Traffic Sources

Quote:In this video I'm sharing five little known social media networks. On these networks you'll have virtually no competition, and they're super easy to use. If you want to grow your audience for free they could be right for you.  

One really good strategy is strategic use of authority sites as "parasite pages". A parasite page is a page on a site you don't own but can post content on that Google seems to prefer. I don't really like the term parasite as I believe you can (and should) add value to these sites and it's not just about what you can get from them.

Here's a good video from Mick Meaney about using Flurther.com and SpyFu.com to find questions that you can reply to that you know gets Google traffic and not just internal traffic.

While the video talks about finding Flurther pages, the same technique can (and should) be used on other parasite/authority sites.
 

 
Taking it a step further...keep track of your parasite pages that:

Benefit you by having a link to a resource you own.

The link is prominent on that page, IE in the first or second response or voted best answer, etc.

Think of these as valuable assets and build a few links to these pages. Because of the authority of sites like Quora, these pages are probably a LOT more likely to rank in Google than pages on your own site. You can also be more aggressive with your linking strategies as Google is more tolerate of linking to respected sites and you're not putting your own domains in danger.

Especially if you are knew to Google SEO, I really believe you'll have far more success much more quickly using a strategy like this than trying to rank your own domains. Plus, this also is a very solid strategy long-term for building a good link profile to your own domains.

There is a down side and that is you're building links and content on a resource you don't own. As mentioned in Mick's video above Yahoo Questions just closed their doors. A lot of folks spent a lot of effort using YA for their marketing and now it's gone.

It's up to you to weigh the risk/reward for your situation, but I don't think using these strategies should be used exclusively...or totally ignored.

Here's a collection of some of the best User channels on Pixabay for videos to use as pattern interrupts and video backgrounds. I selected these channels because they generally focus on "non-real" content, if that makes sense. There's all sorts of great uses for these...go ahead and browse through some of these User channels and brainstorm ideas.

https://pixabay.com/users/1137303-1137303/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/18384546-18384546/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/christianbodhi...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/creativeworlds...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/dieter_g-359839/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/eros-edi%C3%A7...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/gam-ol-2829280/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/gr8effect-66428/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/humanoidevfx-1...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/jamick-12190879/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/jhon111111111-...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/julientromeur-...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/juwelfahim69-2...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/marius_oberhol...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/mczerrill-333364/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/mikkehouse-337...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/motionstock-13...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/osmij-8621397/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/prora-12531882/?tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/seb-agora-1389...tab=videos
https://pixabay.com/users/tommyvideo-309...tab=videos

Here's a bunch of links to marketing tools that offer free trials.

Notes:

• I'm not affiliated with any of these services in any way.
   
  
• Many of these trials may require you to enter a credit card. I've posted on a few links below that some don't require a credit card...but be sure to do your own due diligence.
   
  
• Set reminders for when your trials end if you plan on cancelling. Don't expect companies to break the terms of the agreement you agreed to and especially look out for yearly commitments. When getting a free service in is your responsibility to cancel on time.
   
  
• A downside to using free short-term trials is the learning curve for each. For some of the more valuable trials I suggest you research the service, Youtube and Google for training before signing up. Get a running start and be as familiar with the services while you're on the time-limited trial as possible.
   
  
• I didn't include trials to "ongoing" services like email and hosting where you need to keep paying after the trial period expires to keep the benefits of the tool.
  

Quote:** The free plan gives you 500 pages/month. The count resets monthly if you don't exceed the 500 page limit in any given month. If you do exceed the 500 page scrapes in a given month your account is be automatically locked indefinitely. You can unlock your account by upgrading to any of our paid plans.

https://dataminer.io/pricing

You know how many subscription services offer both monthly and yearly access with a deep discount on the yearly, if you pay at once for all 12 months?

Here's an actual example. I have been a paying premium member of FreePik's in the past. The time I got a deal on the yearly at 50% off so I took it. However, since then I'll occasionally see a special for 20% off the yearly, so...

Using round numbers:

At the special rate, it's about $75 (20% off $99) for a year. The monthly price is $15. So costs twice as much to do monthly vs. yearly.

However, I don't need access to FreePik for an entire year. I only need access to it a month here and there when I'm working on a project or two. It's actually a lot cheaper for me to only get it when I specifically need it.

I also found I'm more productive with the images when I have a limited membership. It's the old "sense of urgency" at work...
 

 

I'm been messing around with some of the newer text to speech apps available and came across one that really stood out called Replica Studios.
https://replicastudios.com/

It's different from the others because it focuses on "dramatic actor" voice-overs.

It doesn't have a lot of character voices at the time, I'm guessing around 50 and half aren't that good. However, the good voices are the best I've found.

Replica Studios is also fairly expensive when compared to other text to speech apps, but it has a "pay as you go" structure that's reasonable IMO. You get 4 hours of text to voice for $24. Let's do the math:

That's $6 per hour of voice over. For a 10-minute video it's $1 and for a 1-minute video it's 10 cents.

There's both a web interface and WIN and MAC desktop apps you can download. Firefox wouldn't play the audio previews for me on the web version, but was OK using Chrome.

The software gives access to a few more features like the ability to select text and change the pitch and speed of the voice. The software needs WIN 10.

Some of the voices have different "moods" like angry, happy, wise, etc., so check for those first when you need "main characters".

You can also use Replica Studio voices as secondary characters in your videos. For example you want two people to talk on the phone (or with each other). Or use a dramatic voice to create a "SUBSCRIBE NOW!" stock audio clip. Because it's text to speech you can have it say pretty much anything you want, with respect to the usage terms.

Which brings us to...the terms. They have a pretty liberal usage license including royalty free commercial use, but do read it as there are multiple copyright issues concerned. One is your text/content and the other is the real person behind the voice-over and Replica. And you can't use voices in negative/harmful ways. But there's a LOT a creative entrepreneur can do with them in honest, ethical and legal ways.

A quick example of a couple of voices:
 


Here's an example with background sound efx:
 

 
This is an example of what can be done using an available Replica Studio plugin for a program called Unreal Engine (free):
https://youtu.be/oQx4SyM_iH4

Here's a couple of great resources for images and videos with Creative Commons licenses that allow you to reuse them.

Flickr is a valuable resource for pretty much all content creators.
https://www.flickr.com/

Using Flickr's Creative Commons feature you can find all sorts of images you can use in your videos and blog posts, but you'll need to give credit/attribution for many of them.

This tool will automatically generate the proper attribution for you, double checking that the image is truly licensed as CC. It also has a button you can drag to your (Chrome) browser tab which makes it really handy when browsing and searching Flickr.

If you using Flickr CC images in videos you can either paste the attribution into the YouTube description or include  a short one-second "credits" slide in your videos with attribution for all the CC Flickr images.

Online:
https://www.imagecodr.org/

Read Me:
https://github.com/cogdog/flickr-cc-help.../README.md

The above will give you the HTML code to paste into your web page.

To strip out the code for videos, paste the code here:
https://www.textfixer.com/html/remove-html-tags.php

I like to add the URL to the image under the stripped text.
"Christmas Rottweiler" (CC BY 2.0) by RebaSpike
https://www.flickr.com/photos/161894595@N03/50686065162

Where Flickr is particularly good is when you need images of popular people and celebrities. Just know there are two concepts when it comes to images of actual people.

One is the copyright holder which is "usually" the person that took the picture.

The second issue is a "right to publicity". This means that if you take a pic of Tom Hanks walking down the street you own the copyrights to that image. See "paparazzi". But you can't use Tom Hanks' fame to promote a product, etc. You could use this image in an article about Tom Hanks or his new movies (editorial use) but not to promote your acne remedy affiliate link.

Another tremendous resource of CC content is the Youtube video search filter. When you do a search just apply the "Creative Commons" filter to return results where the owner has given permission to reuse their videos. Last time I checked, there were over 330,000 Creative Commons videos on Youtube. That's a ton of resources to help you create better content faster.

After enabling the Creative Commons filter of the search results, double check the video description for this text:License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)If you use YouTube CC videos, you need to give attribution in the description of your video and also allow others to use it.

Give attribution something like:
Video Creator - Video Title
URL
License and URL to the license.Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

There is a lot of public domain video where you don't have to give attribution. Where YouTube CC videos can be helpful is that they tend to be long and more informational.

I suggest not using entire CC videos without modifying them. You'll just get folks angry. Instead, use bits and pieces mixed with original content and commentary to create new and original videos.

And remember, I'm not a lawyer and am only pointing out topics you need to research yourself.