Interesting stuff. You've covered far more detail than I discovered in my brief hour of click-through. But one of the most interesting - and depressing - things is discovering an entire community of copy-writers willing to work for 1c a word.
* Yes my friends! That's 1c! Per word! Straight to you! *
The ambitious ones double that. If they reach the stratospheric heights of professional writing, they may even consider 5c a word. I found one writer willing to put together a 150,000 word ebook for $300.
And this isn't writing as writing. This is writing to the SEO template, with guaranteed repetitions of keywords to raise the page rank.
Some of the SEO-ers were complaining that they just couldn't find talent. They were offering a generous $10 for a 1000 word article, but it was nearly impossible to find writers who could do the job properly.
How is this not digital slavery? You can't call your writer and have them whipped or thrown off a cliff, but it's the exact opposite of the Personal Success MegaMethod Total Empowerment Program™ that it promises to be.
There are two types of SEO - "White Hat" and "Black Hat". White Hat SEO is achieved by doing it the right way with no shady techniques and practices. It is the type of SEO that won't get you banned from search engines. Although it means harder work and slower results, but it is the safe way of doing SEO. Black Hat SEO on the other hand, will probably get you to the top fast but your site will get banned from the search engines relatively fast as well. It usually means using different spam techniques both on site, like keyword stuffing, and off site like spamming for links or having link farms.
Black Hat SEO on the other hand, will probably get you to the top fast but your site will get banned from the search engines relatively fast as well. It usually means using different spam techniques both on site, like keyword stuffing, and off site like spamming for links or having link farms.
As for writer-slaves, there's no sign in any part of this universe that production is of any value at all. It's all trading, rent, leverage, and straight rip-off. Doppelganger for the financial sector.
Original copywriting is almost impossible to price. I've done stuff up to € 100 a word for finely tuned stuff, but the work's paid in hours not in words.
"It'll take me two week to do you a 2 minute presentation, a couple of days for the 10 minute presentation - but I can do the 1 hour version while you go to lunch" You can't be me, I'm taken
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
One was advertising herself as an English graduate from a UK university.
