Can't really argue with that. Just wanted to give credit to both sides of the spectrum. It takes all kinds to build the vast web that is the internet.
I'd pay about $10 for a 500 word article but only if it was very well researched, SEO optimized and written well without the need to much editing, if any. Ive had some writers provide articles that can hardly be understood!! Quality really varies and obviously price people will pay will depend on nature and quality of content.
Um. At $10 an article I'm amazed you got anything that could be understood. For $10 I might be willing to let my guinea pigs walk around on a keyboard for a while, but that's it.
They're not. You can get paid just as much for online articles as print articles on the high end, and there are a lot of print publications that pay little to nothing, just like the cheap webmaster market.
You get what you pay for. On average it costs around 7 bucks for a high quality article.. thats AVERAGE Hope that helps... anyways thats what i pay for them.
Average for you doesn't mean it's anywhere near "average" for the overall Web content market. That's actually on the extremely low end.
Yes, you're right. I'm afraid that I fall into the trap of comparing my articles selling for $100 to a newspaper almost twenty years ago, to what is happening in today's online world....or at least forgetting to apply the same rules online as for offline when seeking publishing opps. I've been exerting my energy on that rather than seeking out reasonably paying markets that can be found for online work. Thx for making that point!
I think the age-old motto seems particularly pertinent here: you get what you pay for. That is to say, the more well-written, concise and interesting an article is, the more you can expect to shell out for it. HOWEVER, depending on the exact purpose of your buying such an article, this may be a good investment. As a consumer, there's nothing worse than being force-fed trash, so the best articles are the ones to (almost always) succeed. I don't really know if it's possible to put a ballpark figure on the kind of thing you're asking for as it really depends whom you approach to provide you with such content. It's true that a lot of the adverts in the Buy, Sell & Trade forum are advertising a rate of around $5 for roughly 400 words, but this is a surprisingly low fee for what you have described as "very well written". My advice would be to completely ignore this, and expect to pay something substantially higher for the kind of thing you want. I would expect to pay someone at least ten times that amount just for one, "very well written" article of 500 words. For outstanding and professional articles, this figure may even be one hundred times larger, as freelancers higher up the writing ladder, as we all know, can charge what they like.