Marketing fiverr gigs

Well using Fiverr as a loss leader makes a lot of sense; particularly if V2 actually does let you price gigs up to $500. It's also good for other methods of fulfillment too, obviously. Your model seems like a good approach.


And now the spitballing

Generally speaking, Wkdcash referred to using article spinners to make $500 a day on Fiverr. I would guess clients would not pay more than Fiverr's $5 for a spun article or two. A quick Fiverr search confirms this.

In other words, it seems the writers in this example are dealing in raw SEO stuff. At that throughput, there's no time for editing. This leads me to think that it doesn't matter if the articles make sense. This leads me to conclude they are using the bulk text/keyword ratio model of SEO.

I'm not surprised people still do that post-Penguin, I'm just curious to what extent the market is lagging behind the evolutionary change. I would not have thought you could find that much demand for raw spun stuff but I guess some people still do?


Word Count Payouts

My question has an agenda. That is to try and quantify any new paradigm for article valuation in light of Google's algorithm updates.

In other words, for pure text articles with keyword ratios, it makes sense to charge by the word. That's how we all got into the web writing game.

Today, however, increasingly-relevent qualitative criteria factor into article orders. These may include: readability, originality, shareability, persuasiveness, research, grammatical accuracy, market-centric cultural nuance and more.

Every element adds value. More clients, even at content mills, are demanding these criteria, but only compensating based on that outmoded word count model. I think the common practices need to change. I always advise people who order articles to figure out how to evaluate their criteria in order to create a realistic expectation of what result they may get from their order. They get what they pay for - not what they demand.

It's a self-correcting problem. Underpay, and get only inexperienced writers who can't stay in business. Underpay, and add writer recruitment to your time costs.

Underpay, and you risk getting a completely useless wall of text. You think it satisfies Google - but you are throwing money in a hole.

Underpay, and you risk your order going unwritten for a long time. Now you're paying in opportunity cost.

The more Google-algorithm criteria I add to an article order, the more I need to invest in my article. Period. That is, to fund the actual result. I get what I pay for. I pay now or pay later - but it's my business that takes the fall for my lack of awareness of sustainable value trade.


Dancing on a Sinking Ship

While the markets shift toward Social Value Factors for articles, so many people make those quality demands but continue to valuate articles purely on word count.

I think it's time for Web publishing markets in general to establish new critieria for article compensation - beyond simple word counts. As far as I know writers have to do that individually - but I wonder if new norms may ever be established, and if so, what they would look like.

Apparently some people out there are still compensating writers based on the outmoded word count rate model. That internet may or may not still function, but I don't think it will in the near future. I suppose some people will continue to throw money into a hole as long as they feel they got the cheapest deal possible.

I think writers as an industry may need to articulate new value models in terms of meeting SEO and SMO goals - beyond word counts. Clearly two articles of 500 words may have utterly different values now.

Some new standards need to be normalized. Content standards have multiplied. Market criteria has become more complex. The value of authentic web writing has susbtantially increased. Word count has become a footnote to an article's total value.

The markets are ripe for new content providers who can help clients valuate and compensate their content goals. This helps ensure results and eliminates the false economy of lowballed word counts.

It seems prices go up, quality demands go up, but compensation norms have not. I think writers will have to, or clients will not be able to get what they need. The Google updates are an opportune moment to create a paradigm shift in content valuation.