Does anyone pay for articles?

[Solicitors Mortgages]

Has anyone paid for articles and if so,

i) Where do you get them from and how much did you pay?

ii) Did you have to also pay to get them submitted or did you do it yourself?

iii) How did you rate the quality of the articles that you got back?

thanks in adv...

[a_marketer]

hey mate,
well heres the thing. there are 2 types of articles you pay for. they are either ghost written are you bought Private Label Rights for the articles.

getting it Ghost written is basically outsourcing. a very useful thing to do.
most common site to find them is at www.elance.com but PLR. Those aren't really effective. I'm sayin this from experience and from what I've heard from others.

You want your articles to be unique. PLR articles will be found everywhere! So yours won't stand out. And that sucks.

2ndly. You can either pay to submit or get free membership. But it really depends on one thing. If you're new, you wouldn't want to pay for submitting articles cuz you wouldnt know if you're getting enough traffic to your site. If you have experience and have been getting traffic then by all means go ahead and pay.

a paid resource is www.submityourarticle.com whereas the best free one is www.goarticles.com

I personally haven't gotten any ghost written. so cant help you on that.will try to help u ask soon as i can though.

[Brian Turner]

I run a private article writing service for clients - I've literally just spent a couple of hours this evening rebuilding the directory submission list - now 22 article sites.

Cost depends on what you're looking for, but generally could be around £20-£25 per article written plus manual submission to the directories. To be honest, that's probably too cheap, though.

[mtatum4496]

You may want to consider finding a writer with some expertise in your line of work rather than paying for content that is already availalbe on some other site. There are a number of job posting board for writers. I would suggest coming up with a specific rate per word, provide the title and any keywords you want to see used in the article with a set number of repetitions and a total word count. Don't forget to include a resonable deadline. You can ask interested writers to submit a writing sample for your review, then pick someone whose writing style fits in with the tone of your site. This will help you get some content that will be original, informative and has a good chance of helping to drive traffic to your site.

[luvcamerasnic]

I think that privately written content is the best way to go. There are many sites, such as www.freelancewriter.com where you can post your job need.