Free content for your website

[David]

Well, I guess it had to happen. We've had free clip-art and free webpage templates for a while. Now you can add free content for an instant website.

I use a free service called SiteUptime that monitors my websites and gives %age uptime stats every month. This morning, I received this email from them:


Dear SiteUptime User,
As a SiteUptime member, we would like to let you know about a new online service which may be of interest to you. GetMyArticles.com (http://www.getmyarticles.com (http://www.getmyarticles.com/)) is a FREE service allows you to add articles and content to your web site from a database of over 100,000 articles in 60 categories which are updated daily.
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Thank You,
SiteUptime
support@siteuptime.com


Naturally, I took a look at what was on offer and it's fair to say that the quality of the content is "variable". But, it started me thinking about how easy it might be to create a website entirely from free components, aps, feeds etc. and have it run itself with no input from the webmaster. Add some AdSense ads and hey presto! new income stream. Maybe :unsure: .

[James]

But, it started me thinking about how easy it might be to create a website entirely from free components, aps, feeds etc. and have it run itself with no input from the webmaster. Add some AdSense ads and hey presto! new income stream. Maybe :unsure: .


They already exist, mainly using Wikipedia content. The worst offenders are absolutely covered with adverts and I consider them spam sites.

eg: http://wiki-shorts.freestat.pl/31-2566-Paragliding.html - quite a tame example.

I became aware of them a while ago as some have links to my site, if the original Wikipedia article did.

[tmaster]

I use a free service called SiteUptime that monitors my websites and gives %age uptime stats every month. This morning, I received this email from them:

Naturally, I took a look at what was on offer and it's fair to say that the quality of the content is "variable". But, it started me thinking about how easy it might be to create a website entirely from free components, aps, feeds etc. and have it run itself with no input from the webmaster. Add some AdSense ads and hey presto! new income stream. Maybe :unsure: .
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Take care. That site getmyarticles.com will not answer my questions about the security problems.

Beware of the PHP script provided by getmyarticles.com that they want you to put on your server. It allows them to take total control of your server. Instead of pulling content and displaying it on your server. It loads the script from the remote server and then runs it.

This is a huge security violation. Then can spam from your server or run bots or do anything they want. They will control your server.

Until they release a real script that just prints the content to the screen so it can not be executed or answer emails about why they wont change it do not use that service.:angry:

Emails to SiteUptime.com about this problem have also gone unanswered.

[David]

Thanks for the warning tmaster. I wasn't intending to use the service because the quality of the content fell well short of what I considered useable but it's good to get some actual feedback.

Do you still have the content on your site or have you pulled it?

[tmaster]

Thanks for the warning tmaster. I wasn't intending to use the service because the quality of the content fell well short of what I considered useable but it's good to get some actual feedback.

Do you still have the content on your site or have you pulled it?

I tested it but do not have it live. I was working on my own script to load the page and then scan it for PHP code before printing it out to the user. I think if it was done in that way it would be ok. You just have to know what to scan for and remove.