How many words per day can someone write?
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slowwalkere
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But you want to hire a "full time" writer, and you expect him to work 8 hours a day, 6 days a week? Looking at it the other way, would you bust your hump every day for $45 / day? If your business is booming to the point that you really need to hire a full time writer, then I'd think you could afford to pay him some cash...
Which means you may want to re-consider two things: Do you need that much content? And more importantly, is that content going to be worth it for you? If those articles aren't going to net you $45 / day, then you don't need to be paying someone else to do it.
Agreed. Pay per article (or per word), and let the writer(s) worry about how long it's going to take.
Good choice. It's the content that matters to you, not the number of hours he works. So pay him based on your needs (which are very easily measurable) and let him worry about how fast he's going to get it done.
This also makes it easy for you to break it down - i.e. hire two writers, and each does 2,500 words / day. Is there really a need for the work to be done by one guy? Or do you just need it written?
thinkdevoid
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I think it really depends on the person, their schedule, their typing speed, etc. I can pull off 12x 700 word articles, but I am quite a work horse when it comes down to it. 
I can do more if I put my mind to it. XD
I can do more if I put my mind to it. XDjimscott89
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Everyone has his ability, it depends on your speed.
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itos84
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Good idea, maybe it could be two writers or more. But the point is that one person is in charge of a website. I want websites with 5.000 words per day at least. Im really experimenting all this to see how it goes.
Wow! Thats a lot written. But I also want them to post everything in Wordpress, use tag, etc, so that would consume a little time more. I think 5K per day is fine, what do you think?
Interesting stuff guys.
I have a question though, for those claiming to write X amount of articles per day and what not, what is the quality of these articles like? I am asking because I own a blog and I write my own material. I am specialist in my field but the stuff I blog about is competitive (plenty of articles on the net) hence I have to come up with some interesting and creative content to differentiate my blog. Surely I can write 2 or 3 popular articles (1500-2000 words at max) per day but blogging is not my job (I have a paid job).
I am sure I could pull something like 10 articles of 800 words each per day if I dedicated myself to it but then the quality would diminish. Thus, I am left wondering if the articles you guys write are those sort of articles were you write partially about a subject and then post another one some days later with additional content from the previous article (sort of like filling up articles just to get visitors coming to the website everyday). I have realized many blogs do this to keep posting content daily but would like to hear it from black hat guys.
Many thanks for any input.
I have a question though, for those claiming to write X amount of articles per day and what not, what is the quality of these articles like? I am asking because I own a blog and I write my own material. I am specialist in my field but the stuff I blog about is competitive (plenty of articles on the net) hence I have to come up with some interesting and creative content to differentiate my blog. Surely I can write 2 or 3 popular articles (1500-2000 words at max) per day but blogging is not my job (I have a paid job).
I am sure I could pull something like 10 articles of 800 words each per day if I dedicated myself to it but then the quality would diminish. Thus, I am left wondering if the articles you guys write are those sort of articles were you write partially about a subject and then post another one some days later with additional content from the previous article (sort of like filling up articles just to get visitors coming to the website everyday). I have realized many blogs do this to keep posting content daily but would like to hear it from black hat guys.
Many thanks for any input.
codo3500
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I done 20k+ words the other day. I knew HEAPS about the niche though, it was a 14 hour day though (the work just needed to be done). At full speed I can type around 120wpm too, this would've been going just a fraction of that. It does your head in more than anything, and when you go to sleep, you have some crazy dreams involving what you were writing about.
LOL, this has happened to me too. I literally have given up almost on my job because I can write so much and I am constantly thinking of what to write, even when going to bed. I presume that the ability to write as much as some of you guys do is because you guys are real experts on the subject and have a passion for blogging (and get some good money out of it?).
Can I ask you how do you go about distributing the posting of your articles? That is, I try to post 2-3 times per week and always try to build a backlog of articles (have something like 10 already ready to be posted for the next month). Do you write for someone else or for your own website/blog?
I sometimes wonder how some of the most succesful blogs get away with writing so much content despite it looks like it is the blog author who writes the articles (or at least he signs them, could be easily outsourcing the writing though).
Thanks for any clarifications.
codo3500
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It's for my own site, I was writing for my Web 2.0's and also for the on-site. I'm selling a product, and know heaps about it and its surrounding niche, so was writing straight off the top of my head without any reference, and I believe this makes it much faster.
I've tried outsourcing, and was unhappy with the spelling and grammar, a lot of it was complete rubbish in my opinion. While this may fly on Google for now, I don't believe it will forever - and why build backlinks or content now on a longterm site if they're going to be devalued in the future.
Oh and I'm yet to see a return on this time investment, but you need to risk it to get the biscuit - it's only been a week or so and the SERP's are creeping due to the massive amount of content and high quality web 2.0's, so I expect to see a huge return at some point from this.
sekartajimangantahu
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5 article each 400 words/ day. unique content to keep quality
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There are a lot of variables. Are they writing original content, or rewriting, or spinning? Using disciplined methods or not? Using Dragon, or speed typing, or hunt and pecking? Is the content to be tightly SEOed or not? Does it require minute research, or formating, or not? Less mentioned, is it going to be a writer who is exclusively doing your project, or (like most writers) somebody who is multitasking several other assignments and gigs at the same time?
You should straighten out what quota of time the writer can devote to you, versus assuming (like most buyers do) that you are their only client. Most of the time, I would say 5-6 500 word articles (or 3000 words) a day from a writer doing original work, but busy with other assignments, is reasonable.
You should straighten out what quota of time the writer can devote to you, versus assuming (like most buyers do) that you are their only client. Most of the time, I would say 5-6 500 word articles (or 3000 words) a day from a writer doing original work, but busy with other assignments, is reasonable.
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jimscott89
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It depends on your ability.
BigMarcusStud
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Go to oDesk.com. Sign up as an employer and list an article writing task (listing a task is free). Ask in the job opening to provide rate and estimated word per 8 hour shift. That can give you a good idea.
Talsin
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An experienced writer will be able to handle somewhere in the region of 5-10k per 8 hour day (depending on typing speed, research required, number of different topics, etc) without getting burnt out. Any more than that and their work will start becoming garbage and/or they won't be able to maintain the pace.
WPM does not equal the ability to write huge amounts of decent content per day. My personal typing speed is close to 90 WPM and I am an experienced writer with good analytical skills, if I manage 1.5k of decent written content per hour I'm pretty happy and know I've worked hard to do it (1k is probably more like it most of the time). I can do shitty base rewrites faster than that 1.5k, but those are shitty spider food rewrites, not content that converts humans (though it's still better than spun content).
Remember that the average novel is 80-120k words. Do you think you could write a novel in 2 weeks? Every 2 weeks? No clearly most people wouldn't even get close to that, not even well known authors or journalists. So why do people expect their $2.5-5 per 500 word writers to handle it?
My advice is don't push your writers too hard, when you find good ones pay them what they are worth and use multiple writers if you need large amount of content produced.
WPM does not equal the ability to write huge amounts of decent content per day. My personal typing speed is close to 90 WPM and I am an experienced writer with good analytical skills, if I manage 1.5k of decent written content per hour I'm pretty happy and know I've worked hard to do it (1k is probably more like it most of the time). I can do shitty base rewrites faster than that 1.5k, but those are shitty spider food rewrites, not content that converts humans (though it's still better than spun content).
Remember that the average novel is 80-120k words. Do you think you could write a novel in 2 weeks? Every 2 weeks? No clearly most people wouldn't even get close to that, not even well known authors or journalists. So why do people expect their $2.5-5 per 500 word writers to handle it?
My advice is don't push your writers too hard, when you find good ones pay them what they are worth and use multiple writers if you need large amount of content produced.
Expertpeon
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I can do anywhere from 100-150 words/minute dependent upon how much I need to think about it when writing.
Granted I'm not a content writer and never would be, as I use my talent for evil money obsessed purposes
Granted I'm not a content writer and never would be, as I use my talent for evil money obsessed purposes
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