Outsourcing Articles Prices

Thanks for your reply Doctor Article

I'm trying to get as many replies as possible so that I can have a good idea of what price to go for/ what quality to expect and what kind of return on investment i can get.

I do, for instance, but that's outside of the IM market.

(The rest of this isn't directed towards you, John)

It all depends on what you want the article for. If you're just looking for the backlinks, it doesn't make sense to pay someone like me to churn out articles for you.

On the other hand, if you're looking for authority building articles that have a genuine lifespan, then you might want to invest in a writer who can give you a quality article. This isn't just a matter of being able to write well, either. An article that is informative and entertaining is excellent, but you also want one that knows how to write an article that guides a person to the link while getting them warmed up for a sale. Ideally, without looking like they're doing it.

It's pretty easy to find writers who can give you a readable article for fairly cheap prices, but getting someone who can craft an article that sells is harder, and typically, you're going to have pay more for that because people that can do that can make a decent profit by posting articles themselves.

Even being middling skilled at writing a selling article is going to make a huge difference in terms of results. Let's say you're promoting a product that you make $40.00 on and converts at 2%. You get an article that has 10% clickthrough, and gets a thousand views over the course of a year. You just made 80 bucks.

You get an article that converts at 25%, and your sales from one article go up to $200.00

Is worth paying an extra ten or twenty bucks for that? The problem for a lot of people looking to buy articles is they don't actually know what goes into a good articles. It's a lot more than grammar and spelling. If you don't know the elements of a good selling article, then your results are going to be hit or miss. Articles shouldn't be a gamble.

If you're looking for decent quality articles at low prices, I'd recommend either going through the Warriors for Hire or going to the nearest college and finding writers there. There are plenty of kids who write well enough who'd be happy to do an article for 5 -7 bucks.

RE: If I may recommend a company to check out, try Human Rewriter - Human Powered Content Spinner

I've tried this service & have to say it did'nt work for me, I ended up spending hours correcting and altering the sentences returned, plus at least 50% of what you get back has been spun through some very poor software (or at least it was for me anyway).

Personally I think it's far quicker to pay someone to write the whole article for you and then tweek it.

I always need good article writters for ongoing work, I need at least 4 articles in the health niche every week, PM me if your interested.

When I do take on a Ghostwriting assignment I typically will charge around $12 to $15 for a small article, $15 to $25 for a medium and $25 on up for a large but I am one of the few article writers that will actually include quotes from other big names in the industry that I am writing about. For example, in an article on exercise I might include quotes from someone like Richard Simmons or Jack LeLane, in an article on dog training I might use Cesar Romero,(I think that is his last name) the Dog Whisperer. Not only do I build on your expertise in the niche but I do it by linking you to the likes of others already recognized in the niche to be leaders and pure gold.

That is just my personal spin on the articles. I am not saying that everyone should do that. In fact, I hope no one else does do that as that is a specialty of mine.

Thank you for your insightful answer Carson. I do agree with you that you do get what you pay for but the articles I'm looking for will be published on e zine articles and only be 250-300 words in length and i already have a resource box formula that scores me between 35-40% click through rates.

Just to confirm your initial point, If I'm sending lets say $2-3 dollars per article (i assume this is considered cheap and low quality?) are you saying that the 250- 300 word articles will be so terrible readers will be turned off and their will be many grammar and spelling mistakes?

Im from a PPC background just started in article marketing

I got a few writers who charge $1 for 300 word articles

So far from posting 90 articles(all same niche) I've made $426 in 4 days.

I know that once i post an article i get a blast of traffic and it dies out but im working on keeping that up.

I do it what I call cheap for the quality I provide ($1 per every bracket of 1-60 words), but going by the quality people tend to get for this kind of money I am all set to increase it.

At times, I am amazed at people calling themselves article writers and delivering the worst crap I can imagine. Of course there are great article writers also all down the way, but you pay for them.

In summary, you get what you pay for. That is true everywhere.

Bev... I hope I'm not stamping on any toes here but that is one crap article.

On a slightly different note.....

What amazes me, is that so many people tend to think that each and every cheap article will be rubbish. I say this because with so much competition out there, you can find plenty of good writers willing to write 500 to 600 word articles for $5.00.

I know this to be true because the site I write for has 128 writers on their books - some part time and others full time, and a huge percentage of them are completely over qualified. On the other hand; you more than likely wouldn't get those same writers to write a $200 article for $5.

Let's face it; if you're requiring 50 articles to do with wind power for example, you wouldn't want to be paying $150 per article would you? I write hundreds of articles each month for between $5 and $10 for the site I write for, but I also write other articles for certain magazines at $50 a pop.

Another thing....... as an insider, I can assure you that many clients are making plenty of cash using $5.00 articles. If they weren't, they wouldn't still be ordering 100+ articles each week.

Lastly........ Just imagine you could write great articles. You're unemployed, and you know nothing about internet marketing. Would you rather starve simply because you're not willing to write an article for $5.00, or would you go ahead and begin writing.

Fair enough, I write cheap articles which I could more than likely sell for a lot more, but then again, I'm happy with the way things are. I wake up in the morning, I log onto the site, I pick a few requests, I write the articles and submit them, and then that's me. Maybe that doesn't sound like much, but I've not worked for anyone in more than ten years, and at the age of 35 I managed to retire, so to speak. Now I get enjoy each and every day of my life with my wife and kids over here in Thailand.

Sorry.....rant over.

Shane