Comments on: Blog ghostwriting for SEO: Pay peanuts, get monkeys

By: Mina

Mina — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:07:05 +0000

Unelbivealbe how well-written and informative this was.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:16:00 +0000

I think all depends no how a blog owner feels about their blog. If it’s just some crappy cut-and-paste job to get traffic somewhere else (a landing page), then they’ll pay as little as possible.

I’ve had clients who are like, “this site is my BABY”… those folks don’t bat an eye at paying well for the content.

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By: Karin

Karin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:53:09 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly. Unscrupulous operators who offer extremely paltry pay for writing services show a complete disregard for the craft of writing.

By: Leif Kendall

Leif Kendall — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:15:03 +0000

Hello! I completely agree with you – it really annoys me how people think that filling a site with cheap content is going to help. I just blogged about this very subject. Would love to know what you think: http://kendallcopywriting.co.uk/2009/01/30/bad-search-engine-optimisation-seo-polluting-the-web/

By: Amrit Hallan

Amrit Hallan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:33:30 +0000

Although I take up blog writing assignments and have more than 10 satisfied clients I agree with you that if you want to develop your brand as an expert it is always better to write your own blog posts. Having said that, there is no harm in outsourcing your blogging requirements if blogging is not your primary occupation. For instance, Glenn, you say that it takes almost a day for you to complete a blog post. I’m sure you don’t spend the entire day writing the blog post because you must have other professional commitments to — it means you work on a post for a few days and then post it. Blogging outsourcing works best for people who are busy with their own respective professions but would still like to publish regular blog posts on their business blogs for the sake of generating brand awareness and also to generate traffic. If you want to publish small posts every day on your topic and this job can be done by another person I don’t think there is anything wrong in it. Then there are some people who are not comfortable with the language. Even if someone is comfortable, knowing a language doesn’t mean you can write well in it. This leads us to a conclusion that don’t outsource blogging to save money, outsource only when you feel that the writer can really do better than you can.

Again, having said that, I totally agree that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys :-)

By: Rob McGuire

Rob McGuire — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:34:41 +0000

I totally agree with you on this. I was working for an online company that also incorporated a network of blogs and for a while all the blogging was done in house. Not the fanciest of work mind you, but at least the writing was done by people who knew something about the industry.

Since I’ve left, I’ve noticed a huge difference in the writing on those blogs and it’s obvious the writing has been outsourced to someone who doesn’t use English as their primary language, nor are they all that informed on the industry. All the blogs we built up are now basically just spam and ads now.

By: Kamal

Kamal — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:08:02 +0000

ya, I agree with your blog, nice.

By: Glenn (Owner)

Glenn (Owner) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:09:20 +0000

All great comments guys.

Angus, I agree that there are some pieces that require a little less time. But I think that the only really quick ones are likely to be those where you’re simply linking to some article or site and quickly commenting on it. (And in my experience, even those comments can take a while. Case in point: this comment!!!)

As it’s important to add value with every blog post, I think, on the whole, even short posts take as much time PER WORD, they just tend to have fewer words.