One of the most common issues that online business owners deal with is creating enough content to properly market their websites. You need unique content on your website in order to rank well in the major search engines, and you also need to publish unique content across various web properties to get quality backlinks pointing to your website...
You need unique content for:
- Your website
- Your blog
- Press releases to submit to PRweb.com
- Hubpages and Squidoo Lenses
- How-to content to publish on WikiHow.com
- Articles used in your Article Marketing
- Your newsletter
- Autoresponder series
The most obvious solution is to write the content yourself. Of course, that's not always an option due to lack of time or perhaps lack of knowledge on the subject...
Since many start-ups cant afford to hire a professional writer, PLR has become very popular. But since PLR (content with Private Label Rights) is not "unique", you are still stuck with the job of re-writing that content before you can use it.
A good friend of mine turned me on to a cheap, fast solution. Its a website that allows you to tap into a community of super-fast content writers, at incredibly low rates. Check it out for yourself:
You can have content written for practically any purpose, including: articles, press releases, blog posts, website content, etc. And you can have this content written for as little as $5. They even offer re-write services for all that PLR content you have on your hard drive!
Consider what 5 pages of content could be worth to you long-term. I assure you the value is much higher than 25 bucks. How about a backlink from PRweb or EzineArticles.com? You get the picture.
Check out Need An Article and test them out for yourself. I've heard rave reviews about the quality of content you get for the incredibly low price. I'm signing up with them myself 😉
Best,
P.S. For those of you that love to write, but run out of good topic ideas, sign up to learn more about my upcoming guide titled Easy Unique Content.
About Lynn Terry
I have actually been looking into getting content written lately. At first, I thought $5 was high. Not for the work involved. It's cheap for that. But high compared to me just writing it myself. If I were to get a month's worth of posts written, that would cost me $150, much less than the advertising I buy for some sites. Great find.
Interesting site. Shame it's only available as a subscription. I could use this sort of service right now, but only need a few articles writing.
Still, worth noting for later.
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Alan
Very interesting. I have the site bookmarked so I can read through it. Sounds like an inexpensive way to get some content.
The price seems so low that I really do wonder about the quality of the writing that you'll end up with! One of the problems with outsourcing writing is the need to do so much clean up that you end up not saving all that much time.
Definitely worth bookmarking, though! Thanks for the tip, Lynn!
I agree Kim - I've experienced the same. This particular resource actually came up in conversation with another marketer that is also a great friend. He highly recommended them, based on both cost and quality.
I'm giving them a try. I'd love to see what they produce in regards to press releases 😉
I think I might give them a try! I have used ghost writers before with little success. It just didnt seem to work out at all. I'm happy to see that there are cheap options out there.
I gave them a try on the 20th at 10 a.m. I picked up my article at 6 pm, same day!
I was very impressed with the quality of the article.
When you request an article to be written, you give your writer the general ideas as well as examples and pertinent information. It was $9.95 subscription fee plus $5.52 for an article. I bought a small one-750 words. You can communicate with the writer, make a one time change and leave feedback as well. All in all I say it's a great resource for unique content that won't be found anywhere else, unlike many PLR articles. My niche doesn't get covered very often so general use articles are not much help to me.
Hope this helps those that were trying to decide.
Hi Lynn
Thanks for the info. That's what I'm looking for.
but there is something confused me.
Which one do I have to use to join?
need-an-article.com or need-an-article.net ?
Its need-an-article.net or you can use my link from the original post as well.
I tried this service and I was very dissatisfied with the quality of articles I received. 🙁
Hi Cynthia,
That's the first negative review I have heard. Do you mind if I ask the details of your request? Did you ask for general content, or was your request super-specific? Did you end up paying for the work, or were you able to "rate" the writer?
Thanks!
Hi Lynn,
Yes here's the details.
I submitted 5 different requests over a two day period. All articles were picked up quickly but not delivered so quickly and the quality varies greatly.
Two of the articles were good and three of them were very bad.
For all 5 articles I gave a great deal of information in my request. I included the intended audience, the structure I preferred, a whole bunch of urls for resources and several paragraphs of resource material as well as a link to my own site.
The first article was very good. I was pleased and impressed. I thought I was on to a good thing. I gave them a very good rating.
The second article was pretty good too. I was satisfied. I gave them a very good rating as well.
Then the third article didn't arrive for about 4 or 5 days. It was horrible. Completely off topic, very weak writing, lots of fluff. The writer didn't seem to know how to assimilate material. I requested a rewrite. The rewrite was no better. I left her a rating of mediocre.
Administration contacted me and gave me a credit back, which I thought was very decent of them. They also said that an assistant would fix the article for me.
To my shock the assistant sent me the article with a couple very minor changes and neglected one of the worst issues of all. The article consisted of 7 very short paragraphs and one of the biggest problems was that 5 of the seven paragraphs began with the exact same (3 words.) The article requires a major rewrite.
The fourth article didn't arrive until the 4th or 5 th day as well. It was absolutely horrible. Only two sentences even applied to the topic. They completely ignored all my instructions. I again requested a rewrite. I even provided him with almost all the material he needed for the article and gave more instructions. The second attempt was no better. This article had to be completely rewritten. I left him a low rating.
The Fifth article still had not arrived by the seventh day. I contacted administration and the article arrived shortly thereafter. It was horrible. For this article I had provided a great deal of resource material. The writer was very lazy and did no work on their own. They just threw all the material together into jumbled up sentences that made paragraphs with no sense. They also copied from the resource material (word for word) They did not use synonyms or paraphrasing to work it into something unique. This article had to be completely rewritten.
I closed my account.
With all the time, energy and frustration that I spent on corresponding with and educating writers and administration I could've written the articles myself and been a lot further ahead.
So the bottom line for me appears that this service has a few good writers, but it also has some very bad writers and at the time it was all shot in the dark. I heard they were going to make it possible to choose your writer and if they made that change then maybe that will make a difference in the quality you get.
I was really surprised at the poor quality. I had to educate them on some very basic writing skills, such as paragraph structure, plagiarism etc. And the writing is just very weak. I was pulling my hair out with frustration. What was even more disheartening is that the staff assistant didn't even have a grasp on basic writing skills and paragraph structure.
My idea of quality and their idea of quality is two very different things.
I've read quite a few other negative reviews on this service in the SBI forum. However there are positive ones there too. So I guess it all depends on which writer you get.
Very interesting - thanks so much for sharing your experience in such detail. What you said reminded me of a tip that David offered one time - he said once you find a writer you like you can include their username in the title of the work request. I'll have to check this out for myself, but that may be an idea to keep in mind.
Thanks again - very much appreciated!
Hi Lynn
Yes i went thro that sight .By now i think you must have joined there as a member as mentioned by you. But now i want to know whether at that sight whether we write the articles or is it them and if latter then can we give them the keywords as mentioned in your keyword research so they write the articles container those keywords
They write the articles for you, and yes - you can give them detailed descriptions of what you want including topic & keywords & resources.