Outsourcing Writers

Good luck. I think your criteria (getting past Google) is killing you. That's no way near what makes a good writer good.

If iwriter is pricey then I am not sure a good writer will fit your budget.

Maybe below threads could helps:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-writers.html

Cheers,
Bizamanda

You need to remember, you get what you pay for.

There is a market for $2.5, $5, $10 and $500 per page writers. But the principle is the Law of Karma. That is, you get what you pay for, within a range of possible quality differences of course.

There are some gems at $5 but they lack communication, service, seriousness in work and may be available only a few times a year. The same person when he becomes serious and gets over worked is likely to charge $25 for that same content.

Just an example.

I am not saying that iwriter is bad, nor am I saying if it is good. But honestly iwriter is definitely not pricey. Getting acceptable content for much less isnt going to be easy. And if even text broker doesn't cut it for you, then just go for $50-200 per page writers.

I just want to reiterate what has been said about "you get what you pay for" since most people don't listen to this and go on throwing their money away on poor quality content.

Consider it an investment in your business. Now you want to make a million dollars, right? Do you really believe that you can do this by paying under 1 penny a word?

Honestly, if you hire such cheap writers, you may as well just write the content yourself. I bet it will do just as well.

Find a niche you can monetize and invest $200-300 in 4-6 articles (about $50 a pop). You will be happy when you see new AND returning visitors to your pages. Poor quality content sites will have very high bounce rates and little to no returning visitors.

Most of the talented writers I know rarely advertise their services since they are booked out and you have to place an order weeks in advance. (Sometimes months)

So good luck trying to find somebody really good.

-Chris

I know a secret way of getting quality content for less



Visit a public college. Hold a contests for a small prize money and the condition of leading to regular work. Mention your budget beforehand.

If you plan this well it may take 100s initially but you will also get 100s of public college students to apply for you. Choose the ones who are the best and they already accepted your budget before hand. Just organizing the contests and prize money perhaps is the initial investment.

You will still need to pay $5+ per 500 words but will get content worth a lot more.

If that's your primary purpose (ie passed Google latest updates) then you are just wasting your money and time.

You can also try Fweez.com they can write anything for you for cheap.

There are other writing services out there, you would just have to find the right one for you.

and how about editors? are these writers writing in nice English style, or they need editors, too?!
(* specially for those who English isn't their first language)

Well, that took an unexpected turn.

I'll just stick with textbrooker. Thanks for the advice guys..

I would look on ODesk.com and look for writers that are new. Test a bunch of them out. You can usually find some gems

OP, four onley $1/5,000 words I wil rite you grate sceript.

Those places get pricey? Oh god...

I'm going to just give you my experience. The last time I hired a $1 per 100 word writer out of sheer curiosity to see what the quality was like, this is what I got back: (I'm not going to count the people who sent me word for word copies of Wikipedia).

Yep.. that's real. That's too terrible to even be from spun content.

I really wish people understood that you get what you pay for. Are there crap writers charging $5 per 100 words? I'm sure there are bound to be some out there.

It was quoted here before, but it's far better to pay $20 for one quality article than to pay $20 for 5 articles. I've been at that $1 rate and I've hired the $1 people.

The average person I've found takes an hour to write a 500 word article (including research). If you're paying $1 per 100 words, then that's $5 an hour. A lot of people also have 9-5 jobs and sleep for 8 hours so there's another 16 hours gone. The maximum earning potential if they didn't eat or do anything else for a lot of people would be $40 a day.

It's not exactly easy to be motivated enough to write compelling and quality content for $5 an hour

Plus, you have people who have some of the most ridiculous requirements I've ever seen. I met someone who was paying $1 per 100 words but wanted keyword research, random keywords had to be Bolded/Underlined/Italicized, there were 5 LSI Keywords that had to be included in everyone, the main keyword had to be exactly 3%, all the LSI Keywords has to be 2% and he wanted sub-headers using the keywords as well.

There were a few more requirements but I promptly said hell no to that one. How is anyone supposed to see all that and be motivated enough to write compelling content that'll keep people coming back to your site?

If you REALLY want quality content and want to know where to go to hire writers, I would start looking in the Warriors For Hire section and post a thread there. If $1 per 100 words is the only thing you can afford (which is the common rate most clients are willing to pay) or you think places like IWriter/Textbroker are too "pricey", I would say write them yourself.

Brad Callen provides excellent support but IWriter is referred to as the McDonalds of Making Money Online. You start out at around .50c per 100 words I believe until you hit 30 articles and 4.2 stars. Then you make just a tad more than $1 per 100 words on some until you hit 4.6 stars.

TLR (Too Long Didn't Read)
I would suggest writing them yourself and avoiding the headache of cheap writers if you don't have a budget for writing to be done.

Oh god no.. stay FAR FAR FAR away from Odesk.

Take a look at that beautiful article I quoted above. That was an Odesk contractor. The rest of them weren't far off.

Hey!

Most writers with skills can write an article that will not be harm by Google. But remember they follow YOUR instructions so it is really up to you to direct them in the right way.

For example the recent Google update may have been solely focused on over optimizing for your chosen keyword and of course it made it more obvious to them because many people had the exact keyword they were going for in their domain name A.K.A an EMD.

So for the future we all need to start aiming for a natural looking article forget the keyword maybe just mention it once but do not get too technical about the onpage SEO. Remember "NORMAL PEOPLE" do not do SEO on their sites they simply write about a topic and they rank for keywords related to their topic.

So it will be best to focus on a natural article and develop some great backlinking strategies to go along with it.

Try it out next time you get some articles!

I wonder how many Internet Marketers are aware that Google now employs a team of people to manually read page content, and the rate the quality? If the quality is bad, the site takes a SERP hit.

Don't take my word for it, read what Google sends to members of this team to introduce the idea:

“You have probably noticed that webpages vary in quality. There are high quality pages: pages that are well written, trustworthy, organized, entertaining, enjoyable, beautiful, compelling, etc. You have probably also found pages that seem poorly written, unreliable, poorly organized, unhelpful, shallow, or even deceptive or malicious. We would like to capture these observations in Page Quality rating.”

I actually blogged about this a week or so ago if you want to know more:

Google is Judging the Quality of Website Content

So be careful of buying junk content in the future, you are only throwing cash away.

Outsource from a site called Iwriter iWriter : Article Writing Service | Get Content For Your Website, Cheap! make a account and post your article request really simple article you can get one for $4

You are not a half bad writer just reading your Post. Now if you have a lot on your load then you have to outsource. I do a lot, but also write a lot of my own Articles and blog posts.

Try this : Take a story about yourself or something you had to go through lately; like you are talking to a friend about something. Now put it on paper. Relate it to your blog or Product. This engages your readers and prompts them to sign up for your optin to get more of your rant and possibly get some sales.

Do not try to get pass Google updates. It is clear as day the only way to get pass Google updates is to provide what they want, which is high quality content for their users !!

And that is not going to change for awhile !

My advice for you is to check out odesk.com. You can find plenty of writers there for a good price, but make sure whomever you hire is American or Filipino. Filipinos speak and write good english and you wont have a problem.

If you're willing to invest for good quality, why not get a full time VA instead? I suggest getting a VA whose primary job would be to write content for you and you can have that person do other tasks to fill in the time. That way, it'll be like getting good content at a wholesale price. It's cheaper in the long run and you'll get more done. The trick now would be knowing where to find good VAs who can write...

First time I hear this. There are a lot of things that help your site rank in Google, not just the content. A poor content can still rank if the topic is extremely unique.

I'd keep my eye on 5starwriters.com

They are going to be releasing a site just like iWriter.

Please don't say that there is no gem in one certain place. You are the one that too lazy to find and too easy to just spend some big bucks in elite place. Well, I hope you get what you deserve, effort will never betray you.

I 100% agree with people saying that you get what you paid for.

Even if you find a really great writer, let's say form the Philippines (just an example), the most likely scenario is for that writer to ask for a raise after they've worked for you for a period of time. Well, writers who know the value of their writing at least.

My advice is to go for it and pay whatever is needed...it's an investment

Mea @ OutsourceFactor