Ya I usually ask of a sample article from any writer I'm looking into.If the writer is any good you're not likely to get it back in 24 hours. If they have a team of writers you may be able to. What you need to do is pace your articles out so they come in small groups to allow you time to post them. Or just order a big bulk of them and post them over time.
Just check the BST section for writers, ask for samples and read reviews. If you want higher quality articles expect to spend about $1.50/100 words on the low end. You can find some newer writers who will do it for $1/100 words but anyone under $1/100 is probably not an native English speaker and/or has poor writing skills.
Ya I want to build my site much larger than that. To the point where it holds a lot of trust with google and I can rank for loads of keywords with little to no backlinking.I'm currently working on a medium niche, 15k exact.
I'm aiming 50 post minimum targeting long tails.
Keep writing content, it will eventually makes your site dance.
I believe that bookmark bring authority as well.
While this may not be the quickest way, I made my first authority blog completely white hat. I made 7 500+ word posts per week, perfectly optimized for whatever keyword I was aiming for, and did this for about 3 months. After that, I got enough natural links to my website and enough quality content that google fell in love with me. That's basically what I did for two of my blogs. Many people will believe this requires too much hard work, though.
Agreed, that was some serious dedication. I'm super busy without writing articles, I wouldn't be able to write more than 1-2 articles a week in my free time. And they probably wouldn't even been good. Been outsourcing articles. I'm trying to decide on a good number of articles to strive for currently. A few hundred, a thousand, I'm not sure. :|That is what is called dedication and I know for a fact that it works. It is always the posting that is difficult. Everyone seems to love keyword research but when it comes to getting the content out there, it is rather difficult.
Great job though.