Let me clarify

> I see what you're saying, but... there's no way in the world I can write
> every article, point of view, or suggestion related to my field. There's
> certainly value to my site visitors by me adding articles written by
> others.

Well, yes... but well-selected articles. Automated software can't tell a good article with the right words from a bad article with the right words.

Furthermore, you don't want the same article that's being posted by 200 other websites (or more) because there's no particular reason for visitors to go read it on your site. If they've seen the article elsewhere, there's still no reason to visit your site to see it again. If you are one of the millions of "home business advice" sites and are using articles from article banks, there's no real reason for people to go to your site instead of someone else's.

If your site is an article bank for authors and it contains content found elsewhere, then there's no reason for anyone to visit your site if it's not #1 on the "article bank" listing... and no reason to stay and browse content/click/etc.

Getting them to click on a link to see your page is no trick. Turning them into customers is a lot more difficult.

This is why magazine editors are picky about content and why website owners should be, too. Although "adding a paragraph to make it original" is an interesting idea, in doing so you may be violating the author's "please don't modify my work" copyright... and the moment that people realize they have read the article before, they will yawn and click away.

There's some other issues for the author:
* what if your article is used to promote a scammer's site or a spammer's site?
* what if someone rewrites your article and changes the meaning of some things?
* what if someone sells your article (for money) to a magazine under their name?
* what if your information is stripped from your article?
* what if your website/email changes? How do you change the email/website on 20 of your articles that now appear on 2,000 websites... articles that point to a defunct site or an email account that is closed?
BTW, these aren't "let's suppose" examples. These are issues that have been brought to me by people asking for help.

> I guess I don't know what you mean by "true original content." I
> don't know of any author who writes an article, once, and never allows it
> to be used or copied again, especially online!

Professional authors don't, for the most part. Let me give you an example -- I have a series of articles I wrote and sold on gardening. I can resell them as reprints to magazines (they've been out of print for several years) and as a series of articles to newspapers. I can compile them and sell them as a book and sell first English language rights and then first world rights (each of those is worth several thousand) and so forth.

If I place them on Internet, they lose value. No editor will pay for the material that can be found by a quick googling. No book editor wants something that everyone's read (now... in certain cases, they like it if you put up a sample chapter AFTER the book is out... but not the whole book.)