Don't price yourself out of the market. look at the threads here for people offering to write for $0.02 per word , there are very few people taking up those offers whereas $0.01 will get lots of business. The quality of the article isn't really an issue after the first article you write for someone. If you write a poor quality article for $5 you aren't going to get anymore business. The same if you charge $10 BUT a good quality article at $5 will get you lots of repeat business. The answer is that you need to speed up your writing. You'll only do this with practice. When my wife started writing 18 months ago she could only write 2 articles an hour when she started , now she can do 4 and the quality is just as good as ever. She has clients booking her for jobs that will last a year. (I wish I could plan that far ahead) Her prices are still in the $5 range per article but the value of the orders have gone up from $25 an order to $100 with several over $6000 spread over a year. The downside of this is that i have to hire writers to write my articles.. and that my friends is a very bad subject at the moment!
Don't assume the DP webmaster market is the only market out there. Pricing yourself out of that market is a good thing. Writing for $.02 and $.01 a word is worthless. I know because I did it before. It made me hate writing and think I could never make a fulltime living from it. No one should have to mill out several articles an hour just to make a couple bucks more. A year and a half ago I decided I would not hurt myself trying to write 4, 5, and 6 articles an hour. I doubled my rates (though going from $.02/word to $.04/word wasn't much of a jump). Some clients stayed, some left. I haven't missed the ones that left at all. I increased my rates again at the beginning of this year and I'll reevalute at the beginning of next year. Every year my writing improves, my experience increases, and I am better able to justify increasing my rates. shkad14, you will get a lot of advice from people who are still writing for pennies per word. If that is where you want to be 2, 3, 10 years from now, then listen to them. On the other hand, if you want to make more money from your writing, take heed to the advice you're getting from people who are making more.
Stop selling services like they are goods. That's my first piece of advice. I've sat here for years and watched people (like you writers) mistakenly apply goods marketing concepts to services marketing. They aren't the same thing. For instance, selling at 1 cent a word because you can sell more is faulty logic in services marketing. Your time is a limited commodity. Unlike goods where you can (in theory) produce until the cows come home, you can't do that with your time. The only way to extend the time commodity is to purchase it from another person (outsourcing). When it's just you, selling $100 in writing at 2 cents per word is infinitely better than selling $200 in writing at 1 cent per word. Figure that out and you'll be well on your way to bigger things.
Then I would recommend that you upgrade your marketing skills first. Seriously! Try some of the freelance sites. I bought my last batch of content on elance.