It seems you can never have enough website content – Google’s appetite for content is voracious and even gigantic sites like Wikipedia can’t satisfy every single search that’s made.

Spam content – written in places across the globe that you’d be hard pressed to find in an atlas or worse still “written” by spinning software – doesn’t cut it.

Even if it passes Google’s automated quality checks (and that’s unlikely) it won’t get past human visitors long enough for them to stay and try to interpret it. Which means they’ll hit the back button and that will get interpreted as a negative indication.

So how can you create good quality website content fast?

Pay for a first draft and then edit/improve it

Sometimes it’s the thought of getting started that stops us from doing just that.

If that’s the case for you, outsourcing to sites like iWriter can be a good start.

It certainly beats staring at a flashing cursor on a blank screen.

The quality of writers varies enormously but generally I’ve found with iWriter that the quality improves with longer article lengths – I’ve had good success even at the basic author level with articles of 500 words or more.

Depending on the site, I usually then personally edit the articles to fit the site’s style. That takes maybe 2 to 4 minutes and is a fast way to get reasonable quality content without breaking the bank.

Speak, don’t type

Speech to text software takes some getting used to.

Personally I find it slows me down but it’s worth a try – you can start with the built-in software in Windows.

Slightly weirdly it’s not pre-installed but you can find instructions online to install it free on any version of Windows from XP onwards.

If you get on with it, you can always consider paying for Dragon Naturally Speaking. Just be aware that it used to be their policy to deliberately program their software so that it wouldn’t work on future versions of Windows. I don’t know if they still do that but it’s not a practice I’m a fan of so I no longer own a working copy of Dragon.

Or you could record an MP3 and get it transcribed on a site like Fiverr, That works especially well if you decide to interview someone as the basis for your content. The better people on Fiverr will ask that you send them a copy of the MP3 so that they can make sure the sound quality is good enough and some of them charge more if there’s more than one person speaking as it does add a bit to the time it takes to create the transcript.

Just type!

Good old fashioned typing.

It’s lasted a long time and I don’t see it going anywhere soon.

I’ve not found a predictive text add-on for Word or WordPress but if you know of one that works at least as well as the system on phones then feel free to add a comment below.

The main trick with typing your own content is to do just that – start typing.

Type away and brain dump what you’re thinking onto the screen.

If it helps, add in headings first and then type a couple of paragraphs below each heading.

Once you get used to it, just typing also works nicely. I’ve been doing that for so long now that I rarely create my subheadings before I start although I’ll often mull over the subject in my head for a few minutes (or even for a short walk) so that the ideas become clearer.

My content creation crash course goes into a lot more depth but you won’t go far wrong with a main title and between 3 and 7 sub headings, each followed by a paragraph or two of content.

Then go back and edit if needed – usually not very much, you’ll be surprised.

And like near enough everything your content creation will get faster over time and will read better with practice.