I agree with the fact that sherb has pointed out. But I had seen a sales thread here, which highlighted the guy was a diamond level author at EzineArticles.
That is correct, the thread is
@Social Sparrow, located here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/diamond-author-sparrows-research-article-service.1122620/
Things to note about this:
- Their pricing is between 1 and 2.5 cents per word
- They note 38 authors, but only one has that certification
- There are extensive grammatical and spelling errors in their sales graphic
Certifications don't prove anything, especially when it's one person of many. Sales threads use jargon that can be incredibly deceiving. Want extremely high quality content from BHW? Here is what I do to get that for my own affiliate and travel sites:
- If you have solid writing skills of your own, find a writer that writes for between 2 and 3 cents per word (I have used @JamesBlake. @hasan7707 and @Nerva extensively in the past, but they are often busy, so I am adding @zack101 as well since I have heard good things). In addition to those three, I also have a network of 5-7 local writers who write for my sites on a monthly basis for 2 cents per word.
- Provide as much information as possible to them. I have started populating some extensive buyer's guides with associated individual product reviews. They are usually in 5,000 word chunks per product, with a 2,500 word buyer's guide, and five 500 word extended product reviews. For this, I will do my own keyword research and provide them with title, word count, product, a product link to Amazon, and a target keyword, as well as solid resources wherever possible.
- I go to FancyHands and start a task requesting 2-3 images for each product, asking for a specific image size, structure for an image file name, and that they use something like CompressJPG to minimize the file size. Once received, I'll upload to the site.
- When I receive the article, I will paste it in and perform my own edits line by line, add in headings, internal and external links, images, tags and categorization. I ensure that they are Yoast green, but am working on switching to Rank Math instead. This takes articles from 2-3 cents per word quality to my 7-9 cents per word quality level without needing to actually write the guides myself, and gives me the time to focus almost exclusively on my own writing clients, as I write client articles 100% solo.
The trick is knowing what to change, what words and phrases sound pleasant or confusing, proper grammatical flow, and how to not lean too much on error checkers like Grammarly and Hemingway (yeah I get it Grammarly, too much passive voice). The other trick is knowing how to edit quickly and efficiently. If you can do these things above, you can easily churn out 50,000 words a month of super high quality affiliate site content for $1,000 and probably five hours of work per week.
In the markets we are in, the difference between 1 cent per word and 8 cents per word is drastic, but the difference between 8 cents per word and 80 cents per word is minimal. 8 cents a word can get you to 95% of the quality found in hyper inflated award winning quality work at 10% of the price.
