Now that content has become strategic as to gaining high rankings in search engines and generating revenues (paid clicks and affiliate actions), information sites—authentic or fake—have been popping up all over the web to cash on the trend. While the easiest way for some webmasters has been to use article banks as a source for content, others chose to create some original content, would they write it themselves or hire freelance writers.
With the latest Google updates, one of the 2 choices has however proved to be lethal, as thousands of sites using free articles have now disappeared from organic results. Using article banks might the easiest, fastest and cheapest way, but the catch here is that thousands of other webmasters are thinking the same thing and using the same articles, which results in a multiplication of mirror pages—and, as you might know, duplicate content and mirror pages get your site irremediably penalized by Google & co.
Your best solution is to create original content.