Questions about Articles

I agree.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

I thought about going down this avenue several years ago, but choose not to. Having others write for your blog, only builds their credibility, not yours. Your credibility is your biggest asset, and to establish it, you need to write your own articles.

Sometimes you can get good quality articles for only $5 for 500 words. It is good if you can write your own articles but many people are busy. They do not have the time to write articles.

right writing them yourself is the best way because you can get to put exactly what you want hope it helps

Indeed. Why does that not surprise me ... :rolleyes:

i would stay away from iWriter. But that is just me.

Read my post about quality above.

Do you really think you are going to get quality at 0.01c a word. No... I do not think so.

What if you spent $100 on $5 articles. Ok....lets do the math there.

We need 20 Articles a $5 bucks a pop = $100

Ok stay with me here.....

Those articles were probably written by some guy at 1am in the morning, in some country where he does not even speak english.

Not good. We just waisted $100.

Ok, lets go with this.... then.....

Say we spent money to hire a real writer, and got samples and loved them.

So lets say this person is not cheap. Say they charge $50 an article.

OUCH... well.... ok, but lets do the math.

Instead of 20 articles we get 2 Articles a $50 bucks a pop = $100

We just spend the same amount, but now we have real articles we can use, and leverage. They are well written, and will help people. We post them around, and they are so good they go viral....

Do not laugh. I have done this before, and it works. I have paid much more than $50 an article by someone who can write very well.

Those 2 quality articles we got, are much better and have more power than those crappy 20 jibberish articles.

We can leverage our 2 articles also. HOW?

Easy!..... we can do videos, we can speak them in audio for podcasts, we can change into PDF and send them to free ebooks sites, we can add them to our autoresponder, we can let others bloggers use our article on high traffic sites with a link back to our site, we can print these out, or send them to trade magazines and publications and use them at trade shows..... the list goes on.

My god, I have pretty much just laid out a whole business and traffic strategy that could make you 4k a month....easily. But realistically....what is the SECRET...... errrrr......there is none. I all comes back to QUALITY, with a capital Q.

I am very bad at writing articles, and even high quality ones, as you can see from this post. (yes my grammer and punctuation sucks...ok) I probably write worse then HoMeR J SiMpSoN but alas..... if you cannot write, hire someone who can. Outsourcing is very powerful when done correctly.

Ok I am done. Hope this helps.

I usually write my own, but I've tried to use a few places like this to save some time by buying cheap articles. They were all horrendous. Some of them didn't even pass copyscape and they looked spun. Terrible grammar and spelling. I don't think the people that wrote them were from the United States. I'm back to writing my own content.

Some people are happy with these cheap article services. I think that they must have gotten a rare good (or desperate) writer or their own grammar skills are so poor that they don't even realize the article is garbage.

I'm grateful for people who buy dirt cheap content. I know that the content on my website will be better than theirs.

I think it "are" a much higher price, typically, than poor quality content, though.

But make sure you never put poor quality content on your site.

Having it in just one place can adversely affect the rankings for the whole site: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: More guidance on building high-quality sites

In addition to what backendbuddy mentioned, make sure that your writers know how and when to use the plural and singular form of verbs.:rolleyes:

Example:
Incorrect: Quality content are good.
Correct: Quality content is good.