Where have all good reasonable priced writers gone?

You can go to fiverr. Contact some people to write a sample about a your topic. Then choose the one that has the best service and sample. Your article will be written for 5 to 20 dollars.

Cheers,
Olavski

I'm hardly surprised. I don't think I know even any "competent" writers (let alone "good") who write for $0.03 per word.

In many places. Honestly, I don't mean it impolitely, but you're going to need either to be phenomenally lucky (and probably only very temporarily anyway) or to reappraise your understanding of what "reasonable rates" are.

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In my book "Work from home Now" I talk abut content mills as one of the jobs. You can find writers at that cheap rate on textbroker.com

It is a matter of supply and demand. A good writer starts cheap. Maybe she can write 50 articles in a day. After she gets 50 articles at $3 each, she has to turn down business. So, raise the price to $4.00 and now she is writing 40 articles per day. Then, she fills up again, so the price goes to $5. and so on.

The good cheap writers go on to be the great expensive writers.

There was a very popular 99 cents per article WSO here for
years. I always wondered how he made that profitable. I guess
the rates are now raised.

As has been said before, writers who start at that level soon
burn out or wise up, whichever comes first.

-Ray Edwards

Kochtgr,

If you're looking for US-based writers, then this 2013 article about the average annual salaries of US fashion magazine columnists could perhaps give you some ideas regarding prices of authority content writing services in the US; and

Based on that article -- It seems $26 / hour was in 2013 the average wages of fashion magazine writers in the US. And, without field work, I'd say a specialist US writer could probably write in an 8-hour work day around 2,000 to 3,000++ words of Web content about topics that are relevant to the writer's field of expertise = That'd be $0.07 to $0.10 per word...

However, if you're looking for offshore specialist writers like an English tech magazine writer here in Manila, then you'd pay around $11 / hour or $0.01 to $0.02 / word for 1,000 to 2,000++ words of English Web content in an 8-hour work day (half the daily output of native English specialist writers); and

In these offshore locations (especially in countries that are popular among expats and the like) -- There are also many native English speakers with specialist magazine writing experience...

If you want GOOD writing that converts...you have to pay for it. You cannot pay $5 for 500 words and expect quality.

I hire writers from Odesk. I pay a lot more than you pay. I get great content for a good price.

The economy has changed for writers too. They also need to buy food and pay heating bills. So, yes prices have gone up. But, $3/100 words is still not a bad price. I don't know about freelance sites, but the forums still have writers willing to work at that price.

You might also try iWriter.com. Go for the Elite writers. There are some good writers in there.

You get what you pay for. I agree with EVERYTHING Lexy has to say, and more.
You won't find a writer who will do 50 articles in a day. You may find someone who has a team but "claims" to be an individual.

My rates are not cheap but I have regulars who keep coming back because they know good quality is best for their business and they don't have to worry about having to check spelling and grammar when I give them what they ask for.
I am sure many writers are in the same boat.

Thanks for your replies but please read my thread, I never told that I am looking for a writer for $1 per article or per 100words and off course a writer who writes 50 articles per day would be nothing more than a cheap rewriter!

Additionally for those that say that good writers charge $0,10-0,20 per word , I know writers who charge even $1 or more per word but in the past I have hired writers who were charging $0,02 per word and were better than those ridiculous expensive writers. (I am not talking about sales copy copywriters, I am talking about blog writers)

In the not so far away past I wast posting a thread on odesk and I was getting more than 50 applicants (with some pretty good writers) , now I do the same (actually offering more money) and I get 2-3 applicants and in most cases these are cheap writers from India or Pakistan so what changed the last year?

Probably off topic, but...

Cheap content is false economy. You are better off with 2 very well written articles than 8 poorly written ones.

I get the argument for search engine content, but I cannot see how any intelligent reader is going to take you seriously if your content sucks.

Especially if you want to portray yourself as an expert or authority in your market.

But that's just me.

Carry on.

Lots of great reminders, some good replies, Fiver, (to be honest I have not had any good buying experiences) even the ones that (say they are fantastic) turn out to be PLR, content which was poorly written to begin with.

Get what you pay for, (sometimes) there are obviously different levels of what constitutes goodness, )

Take Sales copy, as an example, there are some sale copy writers out there that have an Awesome outlook on the value of what they produce.

I have a different outlook on what "Good Sales Content" actually is.

For example if, a sales copy Guru, creates Super Awesome Converting Sales Page Content and you can measure that by watching your sales go from 20 or 30 sales to 5000 sales then that is Great Sales Copy.

I have yet to see any Sales Copy Genius, produce a guaranteed result.

To be fair that would be difficult to do, but not impossible.

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Good quality writers even at the price you pay will raise their costs beyond that when they start to get enough of a portfolio to get higher paid work. When I started on Elance I happily did work for low rates but as soon as I got a few good reviews and some higher paid work I stopped.

The main reason writers prices have increased is because of the Google update, at one point the value of good writing was low... you could churn out any crap and if it had the right keywords then you'd have your website at the top of the search engines with no problems, but that doesn't work anymore and the good writers have become more valuable which only leaves the crap or new writers still looking for lower paid work.

I'd recommend what was said above about paying per hour as that will more than likely work out at a lower per word price. Or, if it is regular 3-4 articles or more per week that you are looking for then you'll find a lot of new-ish writers who don't have regular clients will take the lower cost articles to guarantee that they will have regular pay - take advantage of that and actively look for someone to write for you on a regular basis long term, then when they begin to require higher payments for their work than you can afford thank them for their service and repeat the process with another new writer.