May 11, 2009

SEO and $5 Articles

Filed under: SEO — James Salazar @ 8:20 am

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can depend on interesting articles for your website. These articles can appear on your website or can be referenced by other websites. These articles have several purposes including providing your readers with valuable and interesting information. If your readers find these articles interesting they are likely to share your website with friends or reference the article on their website or blog.

The trick is coming up with original and interesting content. Unfortunately, too many web publishers are looking to hire writers for $5 or $7 per article. While there may be some good writers out there willing to work for those prices, it can be a challenge to find them. Should you decide to outsource this work to a country with a much lower standard of living, you have to wonder if these writers will be able to communicate your ideas and enthusiasm for your subject properly.

If you are looking to hire a writer to come up with original content for your website, review their work: Do you find it interesting? Do you see many grammatical errors? Remember: you want interesting articles not articles that sound like fourth grade school reports or facts that have been lifted off of Wikipedia and reworded.