Previously on Battlestar Galactica…
*sigh* 😦 …Fridays without BSG? What am I supposed to do…get a life?
Anyway, I told you about a sudden demand for SEO article writing that is keeping me busy.
Now, I don’t have any particular philosophy on this kind of writing, I just have a method that works for me…practically, financially and ethically.
I know some who are happy, um, appropriating someone else’s work and changing the wording just enough to get by the similarity filters. For the record, that’s not cool. Others are complete purists who refuse to write anything that is not completely original. For the record, that’s not practical.
Economics…and ethics, of course, dictate things here. Some jokers want to pay you ten bucks for an SEO article. If you somehow agree to that indentured servitude, I defy you to get the job done by ethical means. Better yet, don’t take the gig. Just tell the prospective client to call 1-800-I N D I A.
On the other hand, those who insist on writing 100% farm fresh original content…well, I hope you get good wi-fi reception up on your high horse. Seriously, this the kind of black-and-white ethical stand that is easy to make because nobody is hiring you. By my estimates, that will cost about $100, and nobody will pay that.
So, my advice? Find the happy medium, and get happy. (Ah yes…the bold, “straight down the middle” approach.) I don’t think it’s much more difficult to find 3 or 4 sources and synthesize (not just copy/paste) the ideas (not just the words) into something new. Maybe that’s just me. If you can’t do this and punch out 350 words in under an hour, then perhaps this strange little niche is not for you.
Hey, what do you know? Maybe I do have a philosophy on this topic!
A Lively Exchange 
Yeah that getting three or four sources and reading them and then using that information to write something original, didn’t we used to call that reseach?
“I’m not paying you for research, Shakespeare!”
……signed, A. Holeclient
Seriously kids…
Michelle is an SEO mercenary of the first order, with unassailable ethics. To have (what I will assume is) her stamp of approval of my methods means a lot.
Why thank you.
Hey Michael you were saying this was plagiarized but another site (you are right, you have got to love irony). My question is how do you find this out?