My Critical Questions - Please Help
By Anh Phan
@anh101 (1379)
February 25, 2016 4:16am CST
I've browsing around Mylot, and I can see there are many writers, native writers on Mylot. They've been working with writing in their lives, but some quit writing, some waiting for work, some quit writing to do other higher paying jobs, and some feel being sad over their writing articles being copied and distributed elsewhere.
My question are:
1. Is English content writing a high-paid job?
2. What makes an article unique?
3. Do you ever wish to own a content mill?
Please tell me what's your opinion on this?
P/s: I feel double trouble on a variety of SEO talks about articles, unique articles, content is king on the webs... and so on...
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
25 Feb 16
It cannot ever be said that writing in English (or any other language) is a 'high-paid job'. Many people do, however, earn a reasonable living from writing . Whatever language you write in, it is necessary to have an excellent command of it (perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation should be a 'given'. The ability to express oneself lucidly is also vital) and to be able to write in the style that the customer requires and to earn a reputation for delivering on time.
Technically, what makes an article unique is that it is written afresh in your own words and passes the usual checks for plagiarism. In addition, it should, ideally, present completely new and original ideas or present existing ideas in an original and better way than others have done.
No, I would not want to own a 'content mill'. It would depress me too much to have to sort out the very few excellent (or even competent) articles from the flood of mediocrity with which I would inevitably be bombarded!
Most of the people who talk or write about "Search Engine Optimisation" are churning out speculative and out-of-date nonsense. There are very few who really know what they are talking about and can demonstrate that by putting it into practice successfully. Those few are professionals and make their living in the cut-throat business of getting their clients' websites to score well. They have little time for - or interest in - sharing their techniques with others!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
25 Feb 16
@anh101 What the phrase 'Content is King' means is that, unless your blog or webpage has something unique which is worth reading (and is readable), the search engines will not rate it and, more importantly, the readers won't either.
Getting good ratings from the search engines is certainly important because that's what cuts down the grass to show people there's a path to your door. Getting people to walk that path and enter your home, look around and decide they like it and want to come again is quite another story!
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