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Here are two of the easiest ways to create a content-rich blog post.

Method 1: Reprint an article written by someone else - There are different types of “content” on the web. Most articles, blog posts, reports, etc. are written by someone and are not available for reprinting. The author does not want his or her stuff just copied and reprinted.

But then there are articles written specifically for the purposes of being reprinted. You will find these in “article directories” like EzineArticles.com and many others. Authors created these articles for the sole purpose of getting them reprinted by others. This gives them free publicity because each of these articles contains the author information and a link or two pointing to websites being promoted by the author.

To find articles for republishing, just go to a site like Ezinearticles.com, Ideamarketers.com, GoArticles.com, etc. and do a search for the keywords you are looking for (e.g., mortgage financing). You will be given a list of recently published articles. Then just copy and paste the content into a blog post - along with the author info and links.

Method 2: Blog skimming technique - Try writing about what other people are saying about your topic or niche. Find two or three other blogs in your niche…read what they have to say…and if you find an interesting post, write about it. I call this blog skimming.

Say your blog is about real estate in your local community. A typical blog skimming post will read something like this:

I found this great post over in The Real Estate Blog called “When Will Real Estate Values Begin to Appreciate Again?” by Aubrey Clark. Aubrey claims that the current slump is forcing us to return to values held by our parents’ generation. In his opinion the cheap credit of the last decade actually devalued our homes by making it much too easy to get into home ownership.

As he says, “I cannot predict when the real estate market will bounce back, but I can tell you what needs to happen before it does. America needs to reinvest in herself by getting back to solid buying and selling principles.”

In other words, we need to start caring about the value we ourselves have invested in our homes, and less about how much we can make by flipping them.

This sounds like very sound advice to me.

Just make sure to give credit where credit is due. Give a direct link to the posts you are skimming. The other bloggers will very likely return the favor some day. And don’t just lift the content. Include a short summary, a quotation, a link to the original, and then add a comment or two of your own.

There’s no easier way to create really interesting and useful content for your blog.