Frozen brain? Hire a ghostwriter

Does it sound familiar to you? You have a newsletter that needs to be published in a few days, but you just can’t come up with a good article to write. You have a severe case of writer’s block. Or, you know you should add more content to your site on a regular basis to keep search engines (and of course your visitors) happy, but you just can’t find the time to sit down and write articles every week. Both problems have a simple solution. Hire a ghostwriter to write the articles for you.

Basically, a ghostwriter is someone who writes articles for you that you can claim as your own and publish them under your own name. No one but you and the ghostwriter has to know that you didn’t write the article. Once you pay for the article, you have all the rights to it and you can publish it wherever and however you see fit.

Now let’s talk about the hard part. How do you find a good ghostwriter? You can start by posting a small project on elance or guru.com. Anyone interested in writing for you can bid on the project and you can choose your writer from among the bidders. I mentioned posting a small project because you just don’t know exactly what you are going to get until you receive the finished items. A small project in elance or guru terms would be about 15 to 20 short articles on a topic that is common knowledge or easy to research. You want the bidders to pay off (to attract good writers) without spending too much per article.

Other great ways to find a ghostwriter are to network with other people in your field, ask friends, and post on message boards related to the topic you want articles written about. Ask if anyone is interested in writing for you. There are also quite a few freelance writers offering ghostwriting as well. Search for ghostwriting on your favorite search engine to find sites like momva.com.

The price of articles written by ghosts can range from $ 2.00 to $ 65 per article. Most writers will charge between $ 5.00 and $ 12.00. Keep in mind that you will pay less for shorter than long articles. Average article size is 300 to 1200 words. Compare prices, but don’t buy by price. Like anywhere else, you get what you pay for. Items in the $ 2 to $ 6 range tend to be pretty plain and, to be honest, pretty boring. To get a decent hourly rate, the writer has to produce 4-5 articles per hour and it will show up on article quality. However, you can find some great items in the $ 8 to $ 12 price range.

When choosing a writer, start by asking for sample articles. Find some writers who have the style you like and ask them to write a few articles each. You should know who will exercise and who will not. If you’ve written a bit yourself, you may want to provide the writers with some of their own articles before they start, so they can get acquainted with your style and personality. Pick one or two writers to write to you regularly. It may also be worth keeping in touch with the finalists in case a writer is down or doesn’t have time for additional projects down the road.

So is it worth paying someone to write your articles? It sure does for me. Submitting articles and adding them to your own site is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to drive traffic to your site. When adding articles written by your ghostwriter to your site, optimize for a particular keyword or key phrase to get more search engine traffic. Then submit the non-optimized version to the various article directories. As your article is used on other sites and in the newsletter, traffic will begin to flow.

How much are you paying right now to advertise on various websites and in newsletters? $ 25 per ad or more? For $ 25, you can easily get 2-5 quality articles from a ghostwriter. These articles can appear in countless publications and websites over and over again. Don’t forget that your resource box, with a link to your site, will be included every time the article is published. Your articles may appear in larger newsletters or even in print newspapers and magazines where you could never afford to place an ad. If you ask me, hiring a ghostwriter and getting more articles with my resource box is a great investment.