Adding Free Financial Website Content

Adding financial content to your website, such as stock market data or currency exchange rates, can be useful for attracting repeat visitors and making it more informative. However, data of this type changes frequently and can take a great deal of time to manually update. A better solution (especially for part-time webmasters) is to add content which is provided and updated by another website for free, usually in exchange for linking to their site. At the same time, freecontent should be balanced with original information and features developed by the website which is using it.

Free financial content is available from a number of providers. 24hgold.com offers financial data in the form of graphs and statistics on the stock market and various metals. Another option, financialcobrand.com, provides a variety of mostly stock market oriented content, including free graphs, company profiles, and tables of statistics. Some sites offer their financial information in the form of automatically updated Flash or JavaScript content, while others provide it as a JPG or GIF image, which will work properly on more web browsers. Usually the free content itself will link to the provider's website (and may include their name and/or logo).

Depending upon the website, you may or may not have to register before gaining the financial content's code. Then it is just a matter of pasting it into the proper location within your page's HTML code. Try to avoid adding free content which is excessively promotional or takes a long time to load. If it is linked, content which opens into a new window/tab is less likely to draw visitors away from your website. Another option for gaining free information of this type is obtained by adding automatically-updated financial news headlines to your site; among others, freshcontent.net (has four different financial sub-category feeds) and newstoolkit.com (has "Stock Market" and "World Economy" feeds) offer these. Some websites have become quite popular partially by linking to frequently-updated news stories from other sources, on a particular subject.

Using free financial content on your website can help it become a destination for users who regularly check economic news and statistics. It will also prevent your website's information from appearing outdated, and save time which would otherwise be spent manually adding data of this type. However, financial website operators should not rely too heavily upon free externally-provided material. This sort of content generally loads less quickly and is compatible with fewer web browsers than equivalent material created internally, and may draw users away to the information provider's website.