How much would you pay for a 500-word article?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Glazyd, Jan 26, 2010.

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    Hi,

    I am thinking of doing massive campaigns for article marketing as it is one of the best and probably the only thriving marketing. How much would you people pay for a 500-word article?
     
    Glazyd, Jan 26, 2010 IP
  2. J1218

    J1218 Well-Known Member

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    It's up to you on how good of quality you want the article. Of course, if you're serious about article marketing you want good quality.

    People with bad English/grammar will charge as little as $2-$3 an article.

    For a writer fluent in English that writes good SEO optimized articles, you will be looking around at least $5.
     
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    This is about right for the lowest-priced articles that are worth buying. If you want real quality content, though, you'll be spending about $10 an article; that's about the lowest level I consider a "good" writer. And if you want HIGH quality, you're spending $20 and up.

    (Yes, there are people who pay this. I personally charge $50 for a 500 word article.)
     
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  4. ext8

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    i am paying $10 for 500 words for my writers :)
     
    ext8, Jan 27, 2010 IP
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    I am currently paying 5 dollars for a 500 word article

    i use a service called need an article.

    they are very good
     
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    Has anyone had a look at Amazon Turk? People are requesting articles for as little as a $1. Not tried it yet but may be worth giving it a shot if you spend a lot on article creation.
     
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    Think outside the box. College kids write great articles and work for VERY cheap.
     
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    I pay $12.97 for a freshly written senior quality 450-550-word article, manually spun (2 phrase variances per 2 phrases of each sentence, 2 sentence variances per sentence, and 2 paragraph variances per paragraph) to produce 50-100+++ highly comprehensible versions each 70-90% unique, and each version submitted to top 50-100+++ article directories.

    That's 1st version to directory 1, 2nd version to directory 2, 3rd version to directory 3, and so on until xxxth version to directory xxx. Yeah: all 70-90% unique content!

    And: these 50-100+++ unique articles are manually submitted across a period of 1 month via randomized submission frequencies. This means = more natural/organic backlink building via article marketing.

    Yeah, all that for $12.97.

    Junior quality? $11.47.
     
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    I usually use Elance to source article writers and have had some good pieces written for $8 per 500 words. I'd avoid the cheapest and go with someone who is native in your chosen language as I've had problems otherwise.
     
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    $2-$3. Hope ur campaign goes well.
     
    digitalreader, Jan 27, 2010 IP
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    It you want someone to just Rewrite content, you may get someone to do it for as little as $1. For original content though, you should keep a budget of $5 - $10 for a high quality, keyword rich article. Do not forget to check author's rep before you engage him/her for content creation..

    Regards,
     
    anup.mahajan, Jan 27, 2010 IP
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    I paid $0.02 per word for 15 articles of 400 - 500 words each. Got the writers in elance.com
     
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    I am in the business in looking for writers as my English is not good enaugh for article writing. Too many grammar mistakes. This thread is very informative.
     
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    Contact and find an SEO company on Google.
     
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    $2 per 100 words is the going rate at the minute I think.
     
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    If the writer is known to be good, then they will be able to get
    more then $5 - but if they are not so known, then they would get
    $5 or even less. I would rather pay just a bit more for quality..then get crap.
     
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    I paid $2 for 400 word articles last year, however I had them write approx 20 articles daily...
     
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    What service do you use for this?
     
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    It will be on demand of writer who you are willing from to be your article must
    some will sell 500 words article for $2-$3 and few will sell it for $5 each...:)

    Thanks "FrqHuss"
     
    frqhuss, Feb 10, 2010 IP
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    I know of a few decent quality writers than will write for $.60/100 words. So to answer your question that's $2.40/400 word article. If you want more information, feel free to PM me!
     
    jonteezy, Feb 10, 2010 IP