It is important to feel confident with the articles that you are using in your free gift.

Not only do you want to provide great content for your audience in your niche, but you also want to ensure you are abiding by copyright law and ethics.

Below we have included some useful tips on how to ensure you stay out of legal trouble when creating your valuable free gift.

 

Written text articles:

The most popular, and certainly the quickest option, is to use existing content which has already been created.

There are a number of great, free sites. The most popular of which are HubPages, ArticleCity and articledashboard.com.

Both Ezine Articles and articledashboard.com provide you with thousands of articles which cover a range of topics.

In addition to this, you may want to do a Google search for ‘Open Source Articles’, where you will find even more open source articles you may want to use in your free gift. 

Furthermore, you can visit an online directory of free article sites here. You are sure to find a wealth of information for your blog - no matter your niche.

 

When adding articles from these free sites, we suggest you do the following:

 - copy the entire text body & title exactly as they appear
 - remove any original images from the article and add your own - either with appropriate accreditation or from free-to-use sites
 - credit the author both at the end of the article and in the appendix
 - include a link back to the original article in the appendix.

 

 Video eBooks:

Creating a video eBook is also a popular option and YouTube is an excellent resource for this. Paul goes into great detail on how to do this effectively in the following training video: 'Free Gift Creation' module > 'Creating a Free Video Gift'.