How Article Writers Get Paid Top Dollar - Part 1

Content is king. A Google search reveals the Web had almost THIRTY BILLION pages as of February 2007. Most are worthless garbage spewn out by '$5 per article' writers spinning out verbiage that goes by the euphemistic title of 'articles'.

Thankfully, resources that depend on quality content are waking up to this reality - and taking action.

Search engines are punishing sites with 'junk content' and richly rewarding real content resources that offer value to their users. Article directories are using filters to remove duplicate articles and employing human editors to review and approve only ones that meet a 'quality standard'.

Your website visitors are taking more control into their hands with the growth of social bookmarking tools like Del.icio.us and Digg. They vote top notch content sky-high - and 'bury' worthless word-puddles.

Your clients can compete in this new, changed online world only with quality content like yours - and a few successful freelance writers are reaping a rich fortune by educating them about this - and steering them away from 'junk' writers!

By highlighting exactly how much time, effort and brain power goes into the hand-crafting of a top quality article, smart freelance writers are easily commanding premium pricing over the 'bottom of the pool' wordsmiths.

You too can join them by educating your clients about the 7 critical elements of good writing.

1. Good Writing Is A 'Frame of Mind'

Experienced writers will tell you how their best writing comes when they are 'in the zone'.

Words flow. Ideas well up effortlessly. Sentences literally frame themselves.

This mindset directly impacts the quality of the finished work that clients get back from a writer. Sadly, getting 'in the zone' is random and uncontrolled. It just happens... unless a writer has YEARS of experience and conditioning, and has trained him/herself to get it 'on demand'.

2. Good Writing Involves Planning Theme And Concept

A good article is not just a random, haphazard, unstructured collection of nice sentences. A good article packs a punch. And it does that because it speaks directly to the reader.

It seeks to educate or inform. It tries to influence and entertain. It attempts to convince and cajole a response from readers. A good article leaves the reader a changed person.

To achieve this end, a writer needs to understand the target audience. What moves and motivates them to visit a website? What do they expect to find on a blog? What fears and problems are they looking to allay? What hopes, dreams and ambitions do they nurture?

Planning a theme and concept is critical, and top quality professional writers will do this for clients. Not a $5 per article writer - and to be fair, how can they afford to do it at those rates?!

3. Good Writing Is Backed By Painstaking Research

To write this article, I spent close to 2 hours of research. This is a topic I am already an 'expert' on. Highly paid writers often must write on subjects they never have heard about before!

Yet a good writer will not balk at that. After all, the Web offers a wealth of resources to tap for ideas, information and imagination. And don't forget the library!

Research takes time. It takes effort. It can be boring. A good writer will still do it - because that is exactly what makes the writer's work stand out from the competition and be considered excellent.

More research equals more value. More research also costs more time and effort. $5 per article leaves very little 'margin' for either extra time or effort. Guess what gets sacrificed on the altar of quality?

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Be sure to read Part 2 of this article which contains the last 4 tips for freelance article writers to get higher pay