It's not the size it's how you use it?

There is an old saying... one day of lion's life is better then 100 years of sheep's.

Dee, hi

I'm not sure which is preferable. Ordinarily, you'd think quality would always overcome quantity, but I think there's a threshold which needs to be crossed for the almost snowballing benefits of quality you mention ("...seducing and tantalizing desperate readers to click on your link in the throes of...") to kick in.


With article marketing, the fact that most/very few writers are going to reach the stage you mention ("...fabulously written, intriguing, mouth watering..") I can see why, perhaps, quantity is more important than quality (all within reason) - truly a numbers game.

-WM

Wow, jkiley, I sure don't know who said that but please sign me up on the sheep team!

If you said 50 sucker articles I'd go for the awesome one. But since you said 50 mediocre articles, I'll take them instead. You can PM me for the details and my email.

It'll be a tough decision, but I'll go with 50 "mediocre" articles.

No brainer . The 50 will always get you more traffic than the one . No matter how good it is .

While a lot of people are trying to write that perfect article , splash, or sales page , I will be taking action that produces profits .

Isn't the bottom line what really matters ?

I've seen a few threads recently that turned into basically this debate, and I don't really understand what the problem is. Everyone seems to be suggesting that you can only have quality or quantity, but I don't really think it's that hard to have both.

It's much easier than people say it is to churn out top quality articles in a very short period of time, especially if you know your subject well, and you're an experienced writer, and I don't think newbies should be left with the impression that they need to spend days, or even hours, on their work to produce good quality content. The fact is that with a lot of practice and a lot of knowledge, then there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to produce several articles an hour that are informative and easy to read.

The only time that quantity-quality really is a dilemma is when you start using the article spinners. For this, you simply need to think about what your aim was in writing the articles in the first place. If you're just looking for links, then it doesn't really matter how good or bad your articles are, as long as they get accepted. If you want clicks from your articles, then you better make sure the articles are good

You can still get good articles from article spinners, you just have to make sure that you use a very good article spinner, and that you use it sparingly.

I'd post the 1 great article and promote it with 50 articles spun from it.


- joel

Hi Dee,

It seems like I'm on the more popular side of this thread - Quality over quantity.

I can understand the mentality of quantity over quality - but when it comes to communication, I thought everyone knew that effective communication is about saying what matters - not just saying a lot. If you want people to respond (the whole point in the case of article marketing) you need your words to resonate with them. Bad writing can lose you business.

You can put 1000 crap respun articles online and most people that read them will consider them crap and you'll get a very low response.

You put one fantastic article up and almost everyone that reads it will appreciate it.

Bad writing can LOSE you business.

This stuff isn't all about up-sides.

It's a fact that good communication can increase your business and bad communication can reduce it.

Just look at how many people get called on their bad grammar even in public forums - to some people that turns them off (regardless of the actual message).

Troy - Your comments about "the average marketer could take your 49 culls and make a good living from them"

I disagree. I would hazard a guess that the 'average' marketer doesn't even have 50 articles online - of any quality.

I'm sure that Dee also knows that it's possible to throw a lot of crap at the wall and something will stick - and you seem to be coming from the school of "I can throw enough crap that more will stick than if I just spent the time on quality" - but is that really the way you want to build your business? Maybe it is, perhaps you're a results-focused person, but for a lot of people they actually care about the quality of what they do (sometimes too much and to the detriment of getting things done) and are happy to incorporate a model that focuses on quality.

I'm that writers also prefer to write good content and not crap - so I don't blame them for wanting to do that type of work over writing dross just to feed search engines that will ultimately filter it out anyway at some point.

I would never have guessed that this conversation could be so polarised, but I guess that's the beauty of people - we're all different.

Andy

I'd go for the quality.
Quality speaks better, quality benefits are better.


Igor

Wow that made me hungry.

I think everyone wants quality articles, don't they?

But, if you have the best quality article ever written and no one sees it what good is it?

Of course, if you had a mediocre article and you had a high quality article and both had the same number of readers, then the high quality one would probably bring you more business.

But what if you had 50 mediocre articles that got 10 visitors each and 1 quality article that got 10 visitors. Which choice do you think would be better?

Of course, there are so many variables here it's hard to answer the question. What's the purpose of the articles? To get links? To get subscribers? To get sales? Perhaps for each purpose the answer to whether you would rather have 50 mediocre articles or 1 quality article would be different.

Lee