Some writers don't really understand the importance of the professional attitude. Here is sample of a relatively common chat: (W)riter: hi (B)estInsurance: hi (W): hru (B): good. what about you? (W): gud I think that such economy on "characters" doesn't really help to get the job...
I haven't passed through here in a long time and am floored at the prices I am seeing. I can't imagine there are any writers worth their salt would work for these insulting prices. No, I am not a writer and have seen the garbage and the good. I made a contact with one great lady here long time ago. She hired on at $0.05/word (she charges much more these days) and things worked so well she got a couple bonus payments. One site we collaborated on has payed off many times over. Another I hired from Craigs list wrote 8 articles @ $45.00 per (wasn't size based which I feel is limiting when counting words) with each running from 300-700 words. I am very picky. For quality content that is my min/max. I have paid less but most proved was such bad quality was mostly useless.
Having been on both sides of this discussion, I have paid a max of $0.19/word for superbly written content. On the other side, I have been paid $2500 for a single submission, and have averaged $500 for anything larger than an "article." There is excellent writing available out there, if one truly wants to pay for the best.
the most I have paid is $0.30/ word. I would pay more too, if I knew the writer was worth it. People underestimate the power of the written word. Just one solid, compelling, well written article can have amazing results if you put it in front of the right eyes. I would NEVER buy a $2 article, but then again spamming for backlinks is not really my game.
The lowest I have received for a 500 words article was $3, when I was learning the tricks of the trade. The highest I have received for the same number of words was $65.
A good article writer should be paid $20 - $40 per article; pending the topic and required technicality of the article. $2.00 writers will most often not deliver what you would want to use; without additional editing and possibly a lot more research.
I would pay $5 as a minimum for 500 words. This is because I can write a 500 word articles myself in 10 minutes. But if I know that I really don't have any knowledge in the subject, then I will pay more for each article.
$20-$40 for an article? but will the writer guarantee that you will get good SERPs in google? I will pay $20 per 500 words article if I would have a website with 5-10 pages, and in each page to be an article. But if I would post the article on a blog I will probably pay $2-$3 for 400 words. Would you guys pay $20-$30 for an article about a phone? Your article has to beat 1000 or more articles to get the first 1-5 positions to be worth it. Of course you wouldn`t expect someone ho finished journalism to write an article for $2-$3 dollars.
In a nutshell, there are 3 types of articles. 1) Search engine fodder : Expect to pay in the region of $5 2) Meant to capture human eyes: Expect to pay in the region of $10 upwards 3) A combination of the above... appreciated by both humans and search engines... Expect to pay a minimum of $25 The last mentioned category outlasts, in terms of longevity, the others, by many a mile.
Anybody can put words down on paper. ... And I highly doubt you can do it in ten minutes. Getting readers to act, to go "that's a nice article" is another thing. The world doesn't revolve around search engines.
Well, if you don't just quote halp of my post it might sound better because I said that I would pay more for people to write articles foe me if I didn't know much about the subject I were supposed to write about. And yes I can write articles between 500-700 words in less than 10 minutes easily. Though this is for things that I have knowledge about. Of course it will take longer if I have to do research about what I'm writing about.
I think Perry's reply was referring to the difference between typing what very well may be facts and the art of writing. Just because a person has knowledge on a subject and can type quickly doesn't mean that they have the ability write a good article. I'm not referring to you personally, I'm just saying that making a blanket statement about how quickly you can type is not a good tool for approximating rates. I think cereal is tasty, and I've certainly purchased plenty of different brands. In fact, I have a couple of boxes on hand right now. That doesn't mean that I could (or should) write an article on how recent stroke victims can benefit from eating Coco-puffs everyday. We see plenty of that type of stuff online everyday, most of it littered with grammatical and spelling errors. By large, even content that contains no glaring errors tends leave the audience looking at the red X button if they have no incentive to read the whole piece. The real problem is when people try to pass off barely readable text as a good article. Again, I'm not trying to take a swipe at you, but 10 minute articles just aren't the norm when it comes to good writing.
so that makes it twenty dollars for a one thousand article, roughly equivalent to translation jobs pay.