Articles Update
November 17th, 2008 by Kenric8 days ago I ordered a bunch of articles from people on digital point forums. As I said in that post, I placed one order for $30 which gives me 15 articles of 250 words each. I gave them a subject and keywords for each article. I placed a second order for $30 which gave me 10 articles of 150 words but each article is posted on a separate blog. For these I gave them link text and URLs and a subject.
I received my 15 articles last week and they are pretty decent. At $2 per article I wasn’t expecting much, but I would say that these 15 articles were well written, had no spelling errors and most importantly they made sense. I received the articles in word format and began to place them on my other websites. I’m not sure if this person outsources his articles or actually writes them himself. If he writes them himself, I may give him specific topics to write about next time.
My second order was for $30 for 10 articles posted on 10 blogs. So far, they have completed 5 articles and placed them on 5 separate blogs. These articles are pretty bad. There are all sorts of grammar and spelling errors on them. They were probably written by someone overseas. The good news is that the links and link text were correct. These sites are only good for their links. The content is pretty bad. It is amazing that people probably make $10-$20 a day on these types of blogs. I doubt that these links will be worth much, although $3 for a permanent link can’t be that bad.
I placed another order today from another article writing company. This one cost me $80. The deal with this order is that the writers write a 500-750 word article. Then they spin it, which means that they move the text and sentences around or re-write small portions of it, into a couple hundred articles. Now you can argue that you won’t get 500 unique articles, but you’d get 500 very similar articles. Then they take these 500 articles and add different anchor text and links to each one and submit then to article submission sites. The goal is to get 500-1000 incoming links within different articles with different anchor text and different link destinations. For $80, we’ll see how it goes!
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Interesting concept.. I pity the poor readers who accidentally consume an article written for your keywords. I’ve accidentally come across several sites that must be using this format.
After reading the short article my brain worked it over and realized that it had said nothing, proposed no new ideas, and asked no insightful questions. I see now that it was a carrier for the keyword virus. A tepid emulsion with suspended SEO particulate.
I had been fooled, and allowed myself to read to the end -only- because the end arose so soon after the beginning.
I understand that these articles are actually only fodder for the robots, however real people are occasionally exposed. Please tell me you use this technique with a realization that it’s in fact a mild form of spam, polluting the landscape for those who seek out meaningful content. If you approach it with a level of pragmatism and remorse, and see it as a necessary evil for doing business, for what it’s worth I will have maintained my respect for you (indeed, I’ve been a follower of your blog for some time).
I only ask that you consider the realities of this business model. Can production of vacant non-content remain a viable business in perpetuity? Search engines will try to detect this and weed it out. And the business will only last as long as the cost to produce false content that can fool Google is less than the revenue driven by that false content.
Build a backup plan, and be ready with it. I predict the window for this technique will vanish one morning before you wake.
By ABC on Nov 17, 2008
As someone who sometimes stumbles upon such vacuous non-content myself (both on the web and in the queue of submitted comments to my blog) I can tell you without hesitation that it is a form of spam.
Kenric: Don’t be a link spammer.
By Greg on Nov 17, 2008
As part of owning a business online you must work hard to get ranked in the search engines. Companies are spending thousands of dollars per month on campaigns like these and if you do not compete with them you will lose.
I can tell you that there hundreds, if not thousands of sites made for this purpose daily. I’m sure google will discount links from these sites. I don’t use article links as an ongoing basis. On my ebiz1, I only made 2 articles. However, I did use a link building campaign that shot me to #5 within 2 months giving me over 1400 links. This wasn’t my intention, but the link building campaign went well, too well in fact that I’m sure I got penalized by Google.
It’s obvious that these campaigns work. Many large companies do this and maybe they are not the wiser. When they pay an SEO company $5000 a month, what do you think the SEO company is doing? They are building links one way or another.
By Kenric on Nov 17, 2008
The freakin’ link monster must be the reason places like Huffington Post and Daily Kos are showing up as top blogs. I know a lot of people read them but not that many people!
By ubu50 on Nov 20, 2008