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Recently gone through Thomas’ post “Cheap Article Writers | $1.60 An Article Interest You?” on his StandOutBlogger.com. He is generous enough to reveal the secret tips and showing the marketplace where you can hire the cheapest freelancers to write posts for your blog. He found an American native to write him each posts just for $1.60! Why won’t every lazy blogger run to the market and fetch one strong and sturdy slave all for their luxury? Yes, I understand, nobody will tag this trade with thralldom!
This post is not to hurt him nor to argue and fall in never-ending debate. I am vomiting whatever hurdled inside my stomach. Please take it easy and comment if you agree or disagree.
Yes, its market and it is the business. Its the right of a buyer to attain cheapest product and of a seller to gain maximum profit. I also acknowledge that the services too are products in this business world. Who can ignore such universal fact in this open market world? You are the most lucky if you could make a huge profit for a filthy product. I understand. This is how the earth revolves round the sun.
But don’t you feel it somewhere in a corner of your heart that its too much? Its somewhat injustice? I’m not talking about legal injustice but…
With my Devinne power I foresee a niche best profitable. I did million dollar research and found that fact. I come to know that there is lot potential and it can return me floods of dollars. But I’m lame. I don’t have any idea on that niche. I fall miserably when I sit to write something to harvest the floating dollars all over the air. Its great! There is a slave market. I have some bucks in my pocket, sufficient enough to hire somebody.
Somebody will write content for me. I’ll pay him almost nothig. I’ll put lots of Ads and Affiliates on the blog with his article surrounding my Ads. There is no doubt, people will keep on clicking those Ads and most possible, somebody will make a purchase through those Affiliate links too. There will be dollars falling in my account everyday.
But still I’m not ready to pay somewhat reasonable amount of share from that earning which is all because of those articles? Then why are they still writing? How much are they earning by writing posts for blogs?
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I beg to disagree with you here. If someone is happy writing for $1.60, then its fair to have him writing. But do you get the quality in content for that cost? I doubt.
There is always a price associated with quality. One may start writing for me at this price but he will demand more after sometime. If I pay he retains, else he moves out.
Don’t you feel so?
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You true and I agree with you — Quality is always associated with price. But this is the second stage. In the first stage, should you believe and start a seek for a service on that price? I know how much blood and sweat is spent for that $1.6, isn’t it?
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I am a proud blog owner. I gladly host guest posts from time to time, occasionally feature videos, photos or other interesting media type items in posts, but always with credit where credit is due. The majority of my content is handcrafted by me. I own a “mom and pop” type blog. Most everything is “home grown”. I am not content to let others write my blog for me. For me it is an extension of myself, not some faceless money making machine. I do my own research and write my own content.
Others may do what they will, but I cannot call something my own when I turn the production of it over to others.
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Hi Joella,
I am whole with you heartedly. This is what a blog is defined as. But these days a new trend of blogging is emerging — proudly called ‘business blog’. I’m not against that. If You can earn your living through blogging, its plausible indeed.
When something is commercial, it develops to inherit all the white and black tricks. I was more concerned about fair payment of a good work that deserves. Does it not hurt others to offer a price on which the offerer himself won’t to take endeavor?
Just my feelings.
Shkhanal — Thankyou for continuing the discussion here! I can definitely see your point and I think it just has to come back to what each person is comfortable with.
Joella — For my main ‘blogs’ I would not pay someone to write articles for me. My readers are expecting content from me and that is what I give them. The articles that I do outsource are for niche websites that the focus is the content not the person.
I don’t see it as any different then Sony outsourcing a Chinese company to create their products and then they stick the Sony logo on it and sell it.
Tom | StandOutBlogger´s last blog ..Unique, Premium or Free? Themes and Your Blog
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Its my honor, though late, the author himself is among us. Thanks a lot for your views.
I hope now the topic is discussed from both sides.
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I think that as long as both parties are happy, meaning that proper credit is given (whether it is payment, links, or both), then it is a win/win.
In your example, if one party is unhappy with their $1.65, they can opt out of writing. In a parallel example, you can compare jobs in the US compared to those in developing countries. The payment will be vastly different.
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I learned something from this post. I can see your point and it’s nice to know the opinion of the people in their comments. I agree with you, if you can earn by blogging then it’s really plausible, but it’s not enough that we earn, right?! You should earn what you deserve to earn.
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id also want to know the quality of a post for like 2$ and the length… i doubt keyword research or SEO are taken into account so is it worth it to just throw up content? i bet some of the people i talk to about a regular blog may be interested at that price but i wonder if it is true original content and the value it would provide to users/SEO
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Carter — Keyword research definitely was taken into account. And I was lucky enough to find a writer that did write to a nice keyword density as well as keeping the articles personal as well. If you followed the link provided in the above post, you would have been able to see the exact posts that I paid $1.60 for.
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Nice to see that blogging has been outsourced to the lowest bidder, although how lazy one must be to hire someone for $1.65 to write an article is beyond me — what kind of articles are these people writing and for what products/services? Ah, the China-Martization of the world continues to spiral down into the crapper abyss.
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Anybody would be happy to hire a person for $1.6 per post where he is earning some dollars everyday by showing ads on those posts.
Hello.…
from my point of view if somebody working at low cost then you are considering with the content of that article.
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Now a day Internet is a source of living. Bloging is a way to earn living.Lot’s of people around the word is living with blog.Some companies are hiring people to write blog for full time.
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This is very happy news if they pay reasonable amount to the person who puts his blood and sweat on the blog.
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I don’t accept doing a paid review with this less than $15 , and I even started to forget about doing this, I recently did a very simple paid review and I got paid $100 and it was the highest price I ever reach!
So, because quality is related to price I won’t accept low payments any more, and I think those who pay $1.5 for an article is doing a big mistake!
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Thank you for stopping by and sharing your real experience. $15 and above is acceptable and much more better than that ridiculous $1.5.
Talking about quality, though rare, some beginning writers are ready to work almost for free for the sake of recognition. But this is just a lucky incident.
I respect your opinion Hesham, but I think that a lot of people seem to hide behind the ‘if it is cheap it must be bad’ argument.
This isn’t always the case. I have recently been reading a great book called the 4 Hour Workweek, and in it the author explains how he regularly get’s accommodation in Argentina in an apartment of the same quality of a penthouse in New York — but only pays a fraction of the price.
Does this mean that the quality of the apartment is any less superior? Or could it possible have to do with where it is located?
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its kind of thing that if you paid high then you also want quality in the matter and if you are thinking about the outsourcing then it is not assured that that you get the quality after paying high.
ya if you are getting high amount of wadges then off course you have to quality kind of work.
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thats so tricky if you are writing effective then definitely you’ll paid high else nothing.
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Well it the blogger is cool with the set up and willing to work for that rate then it’s not anymore our fault. They chose to settle with that rate so be it. It’s just that sometimes,it can compromise the quality of the content. Just my two cents here
I hope buyers will pay their online workers reasonably, they deserve it especially if the content is worth the price. Let’s be considerate guys, they are still doing it for a living.
Certainly $1.60 is very low for someone living in the USA, and I can’t imagine getting a quality article for anything like that.
Say I wanted a good quality article on marquee hire in suffolk for example, we’d normally pay about $12 for a 500 word article. We haven’t managed to get good quality for less than that.
For great quality articles — we normally pay $18 for 500 words — which I think is good value considering the effort involved, but also a reasonable amount to pay.
In general though — I think buyers and sellers should be free to make a deal — and buyers don’t need to feel guilty about getting a low price. I’ve outsourced quite a few jobs and got some great prices from countries where the cost of living is a lot lower than in the UK or the USA. In those cases, even a low price can be a good deal for the service provider.
Also, the best service providers tend to get lots of work — and can then put their prices up:
Take a look at some of the providers work history in ODesk. Quite often you’ll see people from Pakistan or the Philippines taking their first few jobs at $1 per hour. The good ones go on to get positive feedback — and as they get more and more work, they put the prices up. It’s not uncommon to see people in low wage economies that have worked their way up from $1 per hour are now charging $20 or even $40 per hour or more — because the quality of their work is so high. That has to provide them with a great standard of living — which they thoroughly deserve.
So in general, I think outsourcing can be a real win-win deal.
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Yes Laura its because of the people in low paid countries who are ready to work almost for free so as to build up repuation, has made it possible to get good service in really cheap price. But as you say, as they grow more experienced, got better skills, they will increase their rate. This way, again, an indication arises that price is somewhat related to the quality. That’s way looking for cheap price is something coorelates to the cheap quality as well. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience and the data that you revealed. Your comments will certainly influence the readers.
content writing good work for any one who working from there home and as much you pay you get the unique content, so thing is that pay high and get high quality content.
Honestly, articles which are written on all kinds of subjects in various niches can go for a very low price these days. Maybe the standard for a quality article on freelance sites or elsewhere is around $10, but many internet marketing forums I’m a member of have people trading articles for around $ .80 — $1 per 100 words, very very low in my opinion.
For example, when I was first getting started online, I wrote 12 articles on Forex (foreign exchange trading), they were around 400 words each & in high quality english. On forums I was offered around $35 for them, on an independent freelance site I received offers of $70, $75 & $65 (I took the one for $75 of course).
It all depends where you’re offering the content
Its is a very subjective topic.
There are people who have well established blogs with very decent traffic but do not find the time to write a post on a hot niche , they may outsource. The freelance does not have the audience to cater this article to . So its a win — win.
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As you told that you did million dollar research and found that fact, that there is lots of potential and in return you got floods of dollars. I am in the same field but most of time clients are not agreed with the content becaue every time they want different type of things from their point of view, but we give our best until they become so rud, as a author i think you also gone some time with this situations.
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Supply and demand, simple as that. If somebody is willing to make posts for as low as $1.60, then there’s no problem with it. If he/she didn’t think it was worth it, they wouldn’t take the job.
Kind of curious to know where to find such a cheap writer? And I guess my other question is the same as many others: do you only get what you pay for when you hire a freelance writer?
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Hmmm, that sounds almost too good to be true! The sad thing is that while people are doing the grunt work for $1–60 an article, the person running the show is raking in the Moollah! It sure sounds crazy to me and very unfair in a way. Business is business, but so-called globalization and outsourcing is denying people a living wage in their own country, because somebody living in a third world country and who’s currency is worth zilch is happy to work for peanuts. Scary stuff, and one has to ask how sustainable this truly will be in the long run?
I’d say that if someone is willing to write for $1.60 then that is great. They wouldn’t be doing it if they weren’t happy to get paid that much. I recently built a bridal shower registry website (http://www.asimplerweddingregistry.com) and hired coders from a few different countries around the world (India, Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico). These guys did the coding for literally a tenth of the cost of hiring someone in the US. Yet, to them they were happy to get paid $10 an hour. In the end it was a win win situation for everyone. Seems similar here with this.