The answer is simple.... Poor countries with people offering a poor service for any money they can get their hands on! Alot of these come from India, Pakistan and the Middle East. You will find the occasional kid offering it for nothing too.
this is because of outsourcing... I am paid 2.75 for an article but $2.75 means a lot. Once converted to our local currency, it will amount to hundred bucks++ depending on the dollar exchange rate... plus there are already a lot of spinning softwares..
$100, huh? And which country are you from? Try around $20 at the exchange rate. And spinning softwares are pure crap, and webmasters rarely pay for such shit-poor articles.
The cost of article writing has come down because of the success of Google as a search engine. The single most important way to generate traffic for a website is to rank highly in Google. There are other ways but that is the most important. Whatever measure Google use to determine a high ranking will become the next big thing that people will charge for. If Google determine that articles are the thing that determines ranking then someone somewhere will undercut the competition to produce articles. Until Google's algorithm takes account of quality then the only measure they have is quantity. If their algorithm calculates that 500 articles linking to a site is better than 100 articles then people will buy a high quantity of articles rather than a high quality of articles. As long as quantity takes precedence over quality then someone will always be willing to sell lower quality and higher quantity and people will pay for that. Do people buy these articles and think that loads of people will read them and visit their site? I doubt it. On the other hand, if it improves their ranking in Google, do they really care?
I just feel that there are clients out there really looking towards hiring high quality writers and willing to pay whatever they ask... But once these cheap writers started to dominate guess everything just came to a chaos situation.How nice if there is a rule or some software to ban such writers whom are offering such rates. Man its getting really ugly nowadays....
If you've owned a writing service company for 5 years, I'm surprised at the standard of your English. I'm guessing that you meant this. I own a writing service company and I have been in this field for more than 5 years. Though most of the clients are happy paying high rates for the best quality content, there are some who still require and demand content for as low as $2,$3 and so on. This sounds like they are just looking to lowball the writers who are putting so much effort into the content. Where is it going wrong? Is it because there are some parties offering writing services for pennies. Just tell me your opinions my friends. Boy are YOU behind the times. Farmer update, anyone? The grammatical errors above were automatically picked out by our in-house software, and you can bet that if WE can do it, so can Google.
It because there are lots of article generator software which helping most of webmaster to create their own articles.
if the content have High quality, it may have high price too, but for reviews or other article, that cheap maybe, because they was many people can write a reviews
Remember when Yahoo had hundreds of editors on staff to read websites and then rate and categorize the content? That slow, human-centric business model and system didn't prove as successful as Google's fast, unhuman system. Like most systems, Google's is open to exploits (keyword and backlinks) and that's where the majority of penny-per-word articles are used. What I think we're seeing is a shift towards more human-centric ratings. Instead of hiring staff to evaluate content, Google is attempting to leverage its human audience. In the meantime, I have no problem with folks using article spinners to spit out hundreds of articles. It's legal and there's no denying that it is effective. If you're a writer and haven't tapped into that market yet, you should, before it dries up! It's easy. And, real writers can produce superior spun articles. Don't think of it as a lapse in ethics, think of it as simply filling a demand. These publishers know what they're getting. I know one writer who can write a 400 word article, feed it thirty phrase and word variations and churn out 50 decent articles in an hour. At $.50 each that's $25/hour. Think about charging $1 or $3 each. Not a bad business model.
So true. Earlier today I PM'd a response to a guy in DP who is looking for someone to create 2 press releases for him. I gave him my price quote for a 1.5 page SEO release + 1 revision. He turned me down, saying it was too high. Said he has someone who writes press releases for $20 a piece. I wanted to tell him he should track that person down instead of looking for someone new on DP. This is why I welcome Google's new "Panda" algorithm. Hopefully this will pressure more web publishers to pay good writers what their skill is really worth. If you're interested, I blogged about Panda's appetite for quality content here: Improve Google Ranking
Google has changed its algo so I suppose your problem are now solved. I agree with you, a lot of people make low quality contents just for the sake of having an article. Good thing search engines are doing something to prevent this.
It's because (1) the writing market grows bigger and bigger every day thanks to global outsourcing and (2) outsourcers are well aware that one U.S. dollar can be a lot of money overseas. The last time I checked, one U.S. dollar is 40 Indian rupees, for example. So what may seem cheap in the U.S. can be lucrative elsewhere. Quality isn't always a factor.
The typing and the writing are diffirent things. If you hire a guy per 1 buck for 100 words, you hire a typist.
Content writing is a low paying niche simply because articles aren't worth that much to business owners. No offense to article writers- I've been one myself- but that's how business owners see it. Try getting into sales writing to find better pay rates (sales letters, landing pages, email marketing). The difference is night and day. Jeremy Holuta Commercial Writer
No offense taken Jeremy but it all depends upon the writer and the clients they attract. Clients will gladly pay $100-200 for well-written essay-style web content and come back for more when the writer is providing them with a quality product that helps to make them money.
YMC- Yeah, if you're able to command those kinds of prices for content, then that's awesome. I guess my point- at least from my personal experience- was that it is easier to get to those numbers when you're doing writing that directly relates to making a sale.
Generally speaking, for me at least, clients willing to pay for top quality essay content usually start out as copywriting clients. It is rare to find folks with content sites not tied to a real business willing to pay for well-researched, well-written, quality essay-style content but they exist as well.
Actually if we see out there there are hundreds to thousands of clients that really do pay really high for high quality contents
Definitely it is good for everyone those who buy that type of product. If a person provide his quality of a low price then it is ok for us because we people want to buy anything with low price. Yeah it is quite bad luck for seller because they didn't get more money from same time. But mind it this time to competition.