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Hi folks,

First off,being new here, let me say the Xsitepro features are second to none. After using SBI for over two years, i am kicking myself for not knowing about XSP from the beginning.

With that said, i still have the problem of content like most people do. Between teaching and coaching, I ahve very little time for writing good quality keyword optimized pages. Besides writing articles and pages on my own, does anybody have any recommendations on how to get quality content that is unique to the health and nutrition niches. I am looking for reasonably priced article writers, high quality PLR and possibly software to help with rewriting and submitting to directories.


Any information is greatly appreciated.

Regards

Chad

Hey Chad


Use this site http://www.fiverr.com/ Pray this helps. Someone will di it all for you for a reasonable cost. I use this site all the time for various work I need done and have had not issues with what I have asked for. However do your own dillegence on the person you want to use for the work.

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I too recently discovered fiverr.com (yes, there are two "r's" in the name), but I would caution against expecting too much for your five dollars. That may get you one article of perhaps 400-700 words, but it sounds to me like you need to fill more than just one page. Also, the quality may or may not be up to snuff - there were no samples that I could see when I visited the site.

I'd suggest e-lance, where you can describe your needs in detail, set a budget and delivery parameters, and then put the job up for bid. You'll be surprised by the quality of the people to respond, and you'll have an opportunity to review some of their past work before you make a decision. The cost can be quite reasonable, too, but of course you're still going to be laying out some cash.

As for PLR, there is plenty to be found in the health and nutrition niches - just Google it. I've looked at lots of PLR articles, and they range from nearly unreadable to pretty good. As for software that "spins" articles to make different versions, I don't think that works. I checked out a website in the signature of a recent poster to this forum, and what I saw there was nearly nonsensical. I suspect it was PLR that had been through some kind of "spinner" software. That's no reflection on person who posted (for all know that website is raking in a fortune) but I wouldn't want that for my own site.

Hope this helps.

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Ian,

Great reply, you're right on with thinking 'spinning is odd', and your other comments...



I envy you trying this market, the site is great, but your competition numbers in the millions and they must all be ranked 4-5 or higher with 10-15 years of content. How are you finding 'breaking into the engines' for these key phrases?

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I have been trying out all kinds of PLR sites, but have been sorely disappointed. There is no substitute for writing it yourself, based on PLR ideas, but it requires ability, motivation and time. all which i appear to be lacking. I am in the process of trying out a few other options, having tried elance already but without much luck. A lot of folks have mentioned that they use odesk, which seems similar to elance, however i have not tried it myself. If you decide to, I would be interested in your feedback. The best bet is to find and start with a writer or two or three ( I am having trouble with timely work from my first writer) and keep on expanding for different topics and sites. Eventually, you should be able to have a set of reliable and quality writers at a reasonable price. A lot of gurus seem to be using Phillipines for outsourcing their work. You should be able to access them from elance and odesk.

good luck with your niche, which is tough but doable, depending on which area you decide to focus.

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Hey there

I was just on a outsourcing webinar today and information that was shared about where they obtained all their Phillipines outsourcing was from these sites amongst others:

1. Onlinejobs.ph
2. Bestjobs.ph

Did mention though to actually register you have to have someone in the Phillipines to do it for you and they mentioned there was a monthly fee on one of those sites. The more I stick around the internet I am more than convinced a lot of what we all try to do for ourselves can be outsourced at a very reasonable price, leaving us free to do what we are good at. Meaning playing to your strong points and get other people to do those little or may be big (in our eyes ) jobs.

I already outsource with XSitePro - I just do not waste my time on template design because I am not good at it, therefore I outsource that part which leaves me free to focus on my content.

Pray this helps

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Brett, I just saw your question from a couple of days ago. The fact is I haven't broken into the engines, and the site is not making money. I recently relaunched the site because it was essentially complete (I still have a few tweaks to make this weekend after I get XSP installed on a new machine, and I'll be adding some more content soon) and because I'm already paying for hosting. I figured that since most of the work has been done, I'd might as well take the site live. Until I can come up with a product of my own to hawk online, I'm treating the whole enterprise as a hobby.

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Regarding what Jan Gregory posted, I'll just say that clearly nothing beats original material.

When I happen across an article that I suspect is PLR, I'll cut and past a longish fragment of it into Google, put quotation marks around it (so Google will search for an exact match), and see what I come up with. I'll usually get one or two hits, with a notation that duplicate results have not been displayed. When I display the duplicate results, there may be hundreds - or thousands - of sites running the same article. So Google does in fact detect duplicate content and even avoids displaying it to the user. That said, the method of searching I just described is not how the typical web surfer searches for information.

I think there is a definite search engine penalty for duplicate content. However, if you're a halfway decent writer, you can rewrite a good-quality PLR article so that it's virtually indistinguishable from the original in about a third of the time required to write an original article. Writing an original article usually involves some research time as well. BUT, as long as you're rewriting to that depth, there's no reason you can't rewrite an article from another source (like a magazine), or aggregate information from two or three articles on the same subject.

Getting back to e-lance, my experiences with them have been pretty good. I carefully reviewed the samples provided by those who responded to my work request before I made a selection (who happened to be a college student in the U.S.). I was satisfied with the work he provided, although I still changed a few words here and there. That work was done for a project I have yet to complete, but I hope it will see the light of day soon.

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I recently wrote a blog post on a related topic... http://www.andreawilson.com/content-not-enough/

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