Upon receiving the articles that I ordered from a team of writers, that I finally decided to use, it is time to share my opinion on the team and the quality of their writing efforts. This review is perhaps a bit lengthy, so muster up some patience, grab a cup of coffee and something to nibble on.

Some marketers prefer writing with sizzle, adding colors and juice to their articles, tools to attract attention from the readers. I specifically asked my writer to keep it neutral and unbiased, on the other hand. Whichever style you want your writer to apply, be sure he or she understands it before they start writing.

Unfortunately, I am unable to post links to the articles at this point, as three of them are missing an info box and I am preparing the rest for submitting to EzineArticles. I will post links to the articles if and when they are approved by E.Z.A.

Note:
I am as unbiased as I possibly can be. I am not affiliated with their services, nor do I get paid to write this. Furthermore, I am not an alien and I never really sympathized with Kif Kroker.

Deciding which team to use
Upon reading about the “Retired and Writing” team in this forum thread in the Warrior Forum, having to decide between them and several other teams, that I didn’t feel too comfortable with, I finally decided to take the plunge and placed an order of 10 articles with 500 words each. Three of the articles are review articles with little emphasis on SEO keywords, the rest of the articles moderately utilize SEO keywords.

Payment and project beginning
The current rate for 10 custom articles is $70. Warrior Forum members receive 10 + 1 articles. When nothing happened after two days upon submitting my payment through PayPal, I notified team leader Carl Travis and he promptly apologized, having forgotten to activate my account. With this out of the way, his writer colleague and I had an ongoing and effective communication as the project moved on. The writer was professional and patient, listened to my nagging requests and comments, and edited parts I wanted done differently.

The first article and onward
During the initial phase of the project, I scanned the first article with CopyScape and discovered a bullet list contributing to roughly 1/3 of the article, had been copied from another article already published. My writer apologized for the inconvenience and re-wrote the article, making it 100% CopyScape-proof.

The writer continued with the rest of my articles, and other than that slight bump in the road in the beginning, I was thoroughly satisfied with the overall quality of this team. My writer did an excellent job, writes beautifully and improved any parts I commented on, almost immediately.

Carl Travis offered me custom info boxes included in the price. They are still introducing their services to the public, and I consider it part of their introductory offer campaign.

Is it worth your money?
So, is it worth your money? Yes, most definitely. Carl Travis and his team write beautifully and articulately, and you will immediately recognize the high quality from their efforts upon reading the first article. They communicate effectively with the client, you are given access to their system and can follow the progress all the way. At such low rates, this team over-deliver, plain and simple. Whether they will be able to keep up when their client base grows is a different question entirely, only time can tell. I am at least satisfied for now.

At these rates you will look long and hard to find good writing services. “Retired and Writing” go all the way and give you excellent and affordable articles. I am definitely interested in using their services again.

Click here to visit their website: Retired and Writing

Click here to visit the Warrior Forum thread: High Quality Article Writing and Press Releases

Haavard L. Lund / Splinterbiz

This is an update to my previous post:
“Will I Get Approved by EzineArticles?“.

Finally, my first article, that I wrote myself from scratch and submitted to EzineArticles on August 16, was approved and went live today. It feels good after a recent stroke of bad luck, and the message is loud enough: never give up. It was important for me to find out whether my English skills could get me there, and now my next goal is the Platinum status.

You can read it here. It’s not great, and after reading about EzineArticles high standards I was a bit surprised to see it went through. I will, however, not complain!

If I can do it with my rather limited skills then everyone can, including you. EzineArticles is still easily one of the best article directories for driving traffic to your links and by continuing to write and submit decent articles, you are building a nice flow of free traffic with it.

Update on article outsourcing:
The team that I am currently using have delivered three initial articles so far, one of which contained a rather unpleasant number of duplicates, and I let them know about this, but the rest are above what I would expect at such affordable rate, and 100% Copyscape proof. If this continues, I will have a good reason for recommending them.

I promised to keep you updated on my outsourcing efforts, and as I have received the first article of the first batch from my chosen ghost writer team, it is time for a small update.

Even though I still prefer to keep the name of this particular team to myself, and I suspect they already have enough customers anyway, I will provide a link if I am satisfied with the results when everything’s done.

The first article is a review covering a popular affiliate program. I noticed a few grammar mistakes, although my text editor did not yield any errors in that regard. The communication with the team is excellent and they have asked me questions whenever they were not certain how I wanted it done.

I ordered two or three review-type of articles covering this particular affiliate program, and I will applaud the writers if EzineArticles let it through and publish it in their directory, as it is difficult to write a review on a feature-rich affiliate program and not make it sound like advertising.

I asked them to write as un-biased as possible, and they accomplished this very well with the first article. I look forward to see how the rest comes out, and I will update you on any further progress. I especially look forward to see how many of the articles will be accepted by EzineArticles.

On a side note:
Due to an increase in article submissions, do not expect a quick review by EzineArticles when you submit a new article. My first article that I wrote myself and submitted on August 16. has still not been reviewed (the progress bar is at 3/5). I will continue writing and submitting articles to GoArticles in addition to EzineArticles, as they do not require manual reviews. EzineArticles is still one of the best directories, though it comes at a price.

Below you see my first real attempt to spin an article that I wrote and then re-wrote using Power Article Rewriter. Feel free to compare it with my original located here. It takes a while to re-write articles with this amount of textual content, so you would want to keep it at 350-500 words per article. I just get carried away sometimes … I spent hours with P.A.R. preparing the original for spinning and now, basically all I have to do is click a button and tell P.A.R. to produce up to 1,000 unique articles all based on one and the same original, passing Copyscape easily and done in mere seconds.

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