5 Questions to Ask Before Purchasing SEO Content Writing

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Don’t let the $2 offers fool you – buying SEO content is a big deal, and it’s not something you can cut corners with. After all, on the world wide web, your content is the only way that people can find out more about you. Whether you want to build up your reputation, get people to sign up for your email list, or sell your product, you’re going to need SEO content to do it.

And it has to be good.

Thanks to the Panda updates, Google is taking a harder stance on content now than it ever has before. But even setting Google aside, people aren’t going to take you seriously if you can’t even string a coherent sentence together. After all, people look for all kinds of reasons to avoid spending their hard-earned money. Mix up “to” and “too”, and you’ve just given them the excuse they need NOT to buy from you.

5 Questions to Ask Before Purchasing SEO Content Writing – A SEO-News Exclusive Article

Guest post on SiteProNews written by our own nicolebeckett.

[jerrypohn]

Some very good points to remember. To use your $2 example, If I outsource some SEO work and find that I have to still spend some time editing a few things here and there to get it just perfect - doesn't bother me.

This is as long as the ratio between what I spent and received is still far in my favor. We outsource to save time and get more done and if I have achieved that even though I had to touch up a little, I will still use the ourtsourcer but ask if they could improve on the "editing" points.

[Anselmo Segundo]

thanks for the info, I just need an internet marketing service for my company. I think it is quite necessary in these days the SEO and other internet marketing techniques

[BOBwilson]

yes you are right, but i think we can get a lot of experts at fiverr in $5.

there ar lot of experts which are top rates seller on fiverr,
but a interesting thing u said is panda update.

panda update brings my new site on #4 from 50 which is pr2 while site having pr5 are ranking below mine site.

panda is good

[odlanor9]

I have tried outsourcing a lot of article writing work to India and it simply isn't the same. Although you will get backlinks for those "broken" articles, your goal is to maximize traffic and if someone doesn't understand your article they simply wont click on your link assuming that your site will be even worse. Try sites like elance.com and odesk.com where you can get local writers for a very economical cost.

[annabelle07]

My experience is that even native writers at economical costs tend not to do a very good job. Most of the time, you need to shell out a pretty penny to get decent content. Sometimes it's worth it.

[nicolebeckett]

So glad to see that my article is still generating discussion!

For those of you that are wondering about the "economical" writers, here's why they don't produce as good of a final product (even if they're a US-based service)... When you pay $2, $5, or even $10 per article, your writer is getting a terrible hourly wage. I can usually research and write a 400 word article in about an hour. So, if I charge $5, that's $5 per hour that I'm making... I certainly can't put a roof over my head and food on the table at that rate! Heck, the guy handing me my McDonald's value meal at the drive-thru window is making more money than that!

In order to compensate, "economical" writers have to churn out as much content, as fast as they possibly can. If they want to make the $20 that I make writing a 400 word article in an hour, they have to write 10, 4, or 2 articles in the same amount of time. Anyone working at that pace is going to make mistakes - not to mention skip over important things like doing quality research or injecting personality and creativity into it.

You may wind up with something halfway decent (if you're lucky) - but how many clicks/profits are you losing because people weren't engaged enough in your content to make it through the whole thing? Or, worse, how many people figure you're not the expert you claim to be, because you don't have the facts and figures to back it up?

Instead, try looking at articles as a return on your investment. If you spend $50 on an article - but it winds up making you $500 - isn't it worth that initial expense?

[odlanor9]

I agree conceptually, but at $50 per article I would rather just write it myself and pay someone the $50 to do backlinking for me.

[Donnie]

Originally Posted by nicolebeckett

So glad to see that my article is still generating discussion!

For those of you that are wondering about the "economical" writers, here's why they don't produce as good of a final product (even if they're a US-based service)... When you pay $2, $5, or even $10 per article, your writer is getting a terrible hourly wage. I can usually research and write a 400 word article in about an hour. So, if I charge $5, that's $5 per hour that I'm making... I certainly can't put a roof over my head and food on the table at that rate! Heck, the guy handing me my McDonald's value meal at the drive-thru window is making more money than that!

In order to compensate, "economical" writers have to churn out as much content, as fast as they possibly can. If they want to make the $20 that I make writing a 400 word article in an hour, they have to write 10, 4, or 2 articles in the same amount of time. Anyone working at that pace is going to make mistakes - not to mention skip over important things like doing quality research or injecting personality and creativity into it.

You may wind up with something halfway decent (if you're lucky) - but how many clicks/profits are you losing because people weren't engaged enough in your content to make it through the whole thing? Or, worse, how many people figure you're not the expert you claim to be, because you don't have the facts and figures to back it up?

Instead, try looking at articles as a return on your investment. If you spend $50 on an article - but it winds up making you $500 - isn't it worth that initial expense?

I couldn't agree with you more on hiring a cheap writer, in just about every business you get what you pay for... If your selling computers and your writer dosent know what a hard drive is your audience will count you as a non reliable source, and guess who else will count you out? Yup, the old mighty google! If the content quality is educational and the user has a good experience the user will stay on your site longer, more likely convert into a sale/prospect and help you with you rankings.

What I like to do is find someone in the industry in most cases that would be the company owner, and I would have them write down all the technical knowledge they have for their products once I have this completed I send it to an experienced writer I find on odesk, usually pay 25 an hour for a revision. But now I created a unique educational piece of content, one that will more likely be found and read.

[karoshio]

That was a great read, thanks for sharing. Some great points were raised and I completely agree.

The example used in the first post is definitely something any less experience webmaster should keep in mind.

[inkpressi0ns]

Originally Posted by odlanor9

I have tried outsourcing a lot of article writing work to India and it simply isn't the same. Although you will get backlinks for those "broken" articles, your goal is to maximize traffic and if someone doesn't understand your article they simply wont click on your link assuming that your site will be even worse. Try sites like elance.com and odesk.com where you can get local writers for a very economical cost.

Very well said. Both China and India are prime examples of foreign writers - well known to quote the lowest rates on their writing services simply because they want your business. However, substandard work will be delivered in return. I have no doubt that these guys work hard but, they are simply not "cut" out to produce the same level of quality that a native English writers is capable of doing. Yes, cheap is good - if the quality is not compromised.

[thewordwright]

Originally Posted by inkpressi0ns

Very well said. Both China and India are prime examples of foreign writers - well known to quote the lowest rates on their writing services simply because they want your business. However, substandard work will be delivered in return. I have no doubt that these guys work hard but, they are simply not "cut" out to produce the same level of quality that a native English writers is capable of doing. Yes, cheap is good - if the quality is not compromised.

I completely agree with you. Having said that, there is definitely a high demand for these $0.50 to $2 services. Why that is I have yet to figure out. Any ideas?

PS. I blogged on the topic a while ago, but don't think I should share the link yet. I'm a noob

[jackal]

Originally Posted by BOBwilson

yes you are right, but i think we can get a lot of experts at fiverr in $5.

At fiverr people intend to make money only, they do not focus on quality.

Even some writers just scrape articles from web, and spin it using services like the best spinner and others, and they do not take a personal llok at the article.

thats why panda is affecting lot of sites.

[adityasingh]

fry to done seo by own .....the money making pepole doen'st care about quality of links...