Articles through "elance" - Who owns them?

14 Jul 06 11:43 am

Hi Bill,

When using a ghost writer, people usually insist on getting full rights to the articles. This way you can claim authorship and submit them to article directories.

PLR stands for "private label rights". These are articles, ebooks, software, and other products that you can claim authorship to as well. With PLR articles it's usually a good idea to rewrite them so they're unique. In many cases PLR articles are also being sold to other marketers. So you probably want to rewrite them so you don't have articles that are identical to a bunch of other sites.

I've never purchased PLR articles so I can't vouch for the quality. I have received a lot of free PLR articles and can say that the quality has been very poor.

Rich

14 Jul 06 2:05 pm

Hi Bill,

You absolutely want 100% exclusive rights to the articles that the Elancer writes. Otherwise he/she can make a site to compete with you or sell them to hundreds of other people or even membership sites.

You should also make sure that the Elancer knows that you want original, non-machine generated material that does not infringe on anyone's copyright and you will check for copyright infringement at copyscape.com.

I'd also request that they send you 5 of the articles at a time upon completion for your review to make sure they are up to your quality standards. This is better than getting 25 articles all at once to find out they are very poor quality.

Don't be afraid to make these requests, remember YOU are the boss, they are the employee.

As you can probably tell, I've been burned once or twice and have learned some valuable lessons.

John T

16 Jul 06 2:45 pm

revimp wrote:thanks,great stuff! Also,I am wondering how long the articles should be? I may want to write some myself also.

Most of my articles are around 500 words, but anywhere from 400 to 700 seems to be the norm. I also like to keep the keyword density for the main keyword around 1% so in a 500 word article I use the main keyword/phrase around 3 to 5 times and the first time as close to the beginning of the article as I can. I also use some secondary keywords that are related to the main keyword sprinkled in.

This works well for me, but if anyone else has any other recommendations please chime in.

John T

18 Jul 06 12:05 pm

Hi Revimp, that's no good, especially if it was $50 for an article. That's expensive!

Although there is an elance minimum bid of $50, and elancers usually don't like bidding on projects that are too small. I find when I submit 10 articles to get written, they usually quote me a similar amount to if I had less articles.

If this writer doesn't work out, message me and I'll recommend you another.

regards,
Mark

16 Oct 06 2:49 pm

Mark can you recommend me some elance writer?

pm me thank you.

25 Oct 06 12:09 am

According to Mark's video instruction, I did not find any difficulty of finding a good ghost writer.

I posted my project to bid for Martial Arts 40 articles, 400 words at both elance.com and rentacoder.com. The average bid is about $320.

A typical cost for a 400-500 word article is appx $8-12.