What's the point in buying articles for your site :: Waste of good money

Discussion in 'General Business' started by john269, Apr 3, 2010.

  1. #1
    How many of you have bought unique articles for your website only to find that someone has stolen them within 3 to 6 months and made out that they was their own articles, placed their own links in the authors bio and distributed them all over the article directories even though you had placed a copyright message on each article?

    Bet there is a lot of you. For some dull reason, a huge amount of people think everything on the web is "free for all". Takes the mick really doesn't it?
     
    john269, Apr 3, 2010 IP
  2. subdivisions

    subdivisions Well-Known Member

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    People who pay for articles are stupid. It's your site, write your own damn content.
     
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  3. hiddenox

    hiddenox Peon

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    Never done that but through reading around i the forum here, most people who buy like 20 domains and just want to make some money of them so they buy articles as it is good to get internet user's attenion to the site and get some money from google ads and domain ranking... So pretty much they don't care if the article was stolen or not. and pretty much they don't notice either...
     
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  4. Barefootsies

    Barefootsies Well-Known Member

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    #4
    Agreed.

    However, most simply are too lazy. They want the dream, but do not want to work for it.
     
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  5. subdivisions

    subdivisions Well-Known Member

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    If you don't know shit about your own website's topic, you're going to have a hard time keeping it maintained.
     
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  6. weakhealth

    weakhealth Peon

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    I think it's not a bad thing to purchase unique articles. If someone is really not an expert at the specific niche, how can they fill their website with content? In case someone has multiple blogs, it could be an impossible task to frequently add a blog post to each of them. And if a blog makes 2-3 bucks a day, it's a good idea to outsource the writing part and purchase good articles for $3-$4, and adding them in every 2-3 days. It would be still a lucrative business, and the blog owner would get the chance to concentrate on other tasks, like advertising, link building, or starting new sites and building a successful network of blogs.
     
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  7. subdivisions

    subdivisions Well-Known Member

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    If you don't know anything about your niche, why the hell are you starting it?

    Start a blog on something you know lots about, so you can fill it with posts without loss.
     
    subdivisions, Apr 5, 2010 IP
  8. weakhealth

    weakhealth Peon

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    You're absolutely right, the blog owner has to know something about the niche. But if it's still a lucrative business, you know, buying content for x, and getting 2x in advertising revenue, why shouldn't they do it? (I admit, it's not very common, in most cases the blog owner just spends money and gets nothing in return.)

    But what's with niche microsites? In this case the domain name and the backlinks are the most important success factors, not the content. Content can be almost crappy, so you can outsource the whole content writing to the cheapest writer. In addition, if you have 100 sites, you can't be an expert in every single niche. Sometimes you got to spend some money to earn some money :)
     
    weakhealth, Apr 6, 2010 IP
  9. DMK

    DMK Active Member

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    There are many reasons why someone would outsource article writing. Could be that their English is not so good or may be they are busy with other projects. I have outsourced article writing in the past and yet made a decent profit. Heck, had I done the writing myself I wouldn't have earned as much either.
     
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    GrantDraper Active Member

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    A very shallow comment in my opinion. Does Bill Gates write his own Software? Does the owner of Facebook do all the work? I think not, they outsource and delegate tasks as they see fit to create a "business operation" rather than trying to get a quick few hundred bucks a week.
     
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    Totally agrees to this. You cant just take the work all by yourself. We have what we call a team. A company, whatever you call it. So you dont have to force yourself to be so much workaholic.
     
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    Why do you think people outsource?

    Seriously follow the money not only your passions
     
    onetouch, Apr 6, 2010 IP
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    I have good programming experience and skills to create my software and sites. But I do not have enough internet marketing skills to promote my sites and my business. So, for me it is necessity to buy articles, hire article writers and seo specialists.
     
    WorksForWeb, Apr 6, 2010 IP
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    And if you have been doing everything yourself, you will also find that as your online business grows, you will need to outsource, simply because you won't have time for everything anymore. ne good thing about doing everything yourself at the beginning is that you get to know the ins and outs and you establish a business process that works for you. When you begin outsourcing, thn your assistants will have a process to follow and you will know what you can reasonably expect from them.
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    For me it worth a single cent.
    Coz the content aka article do help me a lot in gaining PR and visitor each day.
     
    mentos, Apr 7, 2010 IP
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    You just cant keep everything for yourself, there is so much to do. Outsourcing is indeed important and helps you stay organized.
     
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    i agree with this guy... it also can be like a symbiosis mutuallism...
    the writers also need their articles be bought by website owner to survive
     
    kipashardisk, May 8, 2010 IP