The cheapest way to get articles?

Sure it does, but it takes my time and I'm not extremely good in writing english.

Self service always cheapest way to get articles but it's very hard to get fast and result oriented article that you want so for that you can hire a freelance writer at affordable rates or use software like AListPress.com which helps you create article within few minutes and easily.

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A lot of people have said that cheap writers are bad writers, but in my experience that isn't true at all.

I have hired several cheap writers that provided an excellent level of quality writing before. I only have experience using Elance to find writers, but I'm sure they are elsewhere to be found also.

Yes, it's true that there are cheap writers that are bad writers. But there are tons of great writers out there who do not price themselves highly, probably because 1) there isn't as much demand at a higher price, so it's harder to find work or 2) they simply don't know that some people out there will pay big bucks for their writing.

I am talking about $5-10 articles here. In one of my niches, I actually found an expert in the subject who had been teaching workshops on the exact subject for several years. And guess what? His writing was excellent and only cost less than $11 per ~500 word article, after Elance.com fees were included in the writing cost.

So to those writers out there who attack anyone who wants cheap writing: Just stop. Stop lying to folks by saying that there are no cheap, high quality writers out there. I know it is in your interests to preserve the myth that they have to pay YOU big bucks for great writing, but it just isn't true.

For every writer that bid around $50 per 500 words on my old Elance.com jobs (back when I was still hiring people), I would get bids from 4-5 writers that were just as skilled who would charge less than $10 per 500 words.

The only exception to my rebuttal here is that usually you cannot find ULTRA-cheap articles that are high quality. By this I mean finding 500 word articles for less than $5 each, because below $5 is usually the price territory of writers whom English is not their first language. In my time hiring writers at Elance, I noticed the best value of high quality vs price would be anywhere from $6-10 per 500 word articles.

I use ReTexTo, a free article spinner, because it can rewrite any article and produce professional results.

For example, ReTexTo produced the following masterpiece by rewriting Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

You're probably thinking to yourself, "that's a perfect rewrite and I can even imagine Abraham Lincoln saying those words".

That's what I thought too. You're probably pretty convinced like I am that article rewriting software is the best way to produce quality articles.

You are right, but of course I prefer to find a balance between cost and quality. So I take every answer I get into consideration.

I have to agree with AmandaT. PLR is hands down the best way to buy content. It is a win win for everyone involved. You get great content to build with at the most affordable prices. It's perfect if your writing skills or English isn't great.

Remember that the content of your site is king...not the design, not the product, but the writing. Don't search for cheap ghost writing. Most PLR sites have a place where you can suggest a topic if you can quite find what you need. Many writers will take on a project when it's guaranteed to sell.

You have to search for a writer yourself. Check out Warriors for Hire, and check out a Google search for a niche specialist.

Because we don't know what you need the content for, we don't know enough to even provide a ballpark of what your return might be.

I'd be careful of this method, I've ran campaigns for clients in the past and seen rankings go from the top 3 for a keyword phrase to out of the top 100 spots within only a week or two's time from a single article placed on the site from an ezine site, and the article was cited properly. This does not happen with every site, but you have to ask if it's a risk you're willing to take to save a few bucks.

If you are looking for quality content for your site I'd say a 5 star writer from textbroker, you'll pay a bit more but they run it through copyscape and if you get a crap article you have a larger company to go to.

I'm glad you did well.

I bought a domain and ordered 6 articles on iWriter right after its launch. The articles were picked up by 6 different writers. Three articles were very mediocre and didn't closely follow the headline/theme of the article. Two were plain bad, probably spun but if they weren't then the authors clearly had a very poor grasp of the English language. The 6th was clearly spun and it was like the person didn't even bother to look at it. He/she spun things like the name of the industry trade association that should never be altered. It was complete nonsense.

I paid for the first 5 and refused to pay for the 6th one, but would never have posted them on a website without extensive editing. I never had the time or inclination to redo them so the domain is just parked for now.

I didn't expect much for $3. It was just an effort to put up some content rather than just park a domain until I did something with it, but iWriter provided the worst writers I have ever hired.