Sydney's New Experiment

[JimmyChen]

Sydney,

I'm totally excited about your new experiment of splitting a 750 words article into 2 parts!
I will jump in the wagon and test as well!

You said the first part is for article directories and the second part will be available on your site.
Just curious whether do you actually use the 750 words full length article on your website?
If not, how are the readers from the NON article directories (eg. Google search engine) going to read the first part of your article?

I reckon you wouldn't put a link on your site back to ezinearticles and direct your traffic back to them just for Part I of the full article.

Excited!

[Sydney]

What I've done/will do is:

* Put part 1 on my site

* Put part 2 on my site {be sure to reference the other part so that site readers can find it}

* Submit part 1 to the directories (after I'm sure it's been indexed by the SEs) and offer readers part 2 via autoresponder

We'll see ... :cool:

[SkipperandLinda]

Hi Folks,

It occurs to me that if the idea of splitting articles is successful, it could be a real money saver. Now, if everyone has already thought of this, forgive me. Sometimes I am just a little slow.

Anyway, say I find a really good writer (minimal editing required) for $ 5.00 per article. And after a few sets of articles at, say, 600 words, I tell them that I am very pleased with their work. I tell them that I would like to pay them $ 7.00 per article, but I will need them to aim for 700 - 750 words. Then I split the articles into two articles and am now in effect paying $ 3.50 per article.

Comments?

Skipper

[mfoster7]

Hi Skipper. I don't yet have any experience at requesting longer articles, but have two preliminary thoughts: 1) Pro - Unless you feel a need for caution with a new writer, I wouldn't see why there would be a need for any delay on a request for longer (700-800 words) articles from the beginning. One longer article should be less expensive than two shorter ones because the writer can remain on the same thought process and research time can be reduced for remaining on the same issue but providing more verbiage 2) Con - Depending what percentage of your site articles are split between part 1 & part 2, the end users (visitors to your site) might find it a frustrating experience if they need to frequently click an article "part 2" to read - and even more so, to print - the entirety of several of your articles. In the age that we live of "hurry up, I want it now", every additional required click we request of our online visitors can be perceived as another troublesome task he needs to do to get to his end result.

Having said all of that, I'd love to hear of your results if you test it. I know it will be fairly easy to test the lesser expense of writer bids for longer articles. The tougher assessment would be finding a way to gauge end user frustration on our sites if they don't happen to like part 1 / part 2 article splits. So my second comment above is not in any way sceientific, but rather a gut level response.

[SkipperandLinda]

Hi Mike,

Good points. My situation is that, like I said, this just occurred to me. I have a new writer (meaning they are new as well), who seems to be really good, working on 25 articles for me. I have a quote of $ 5.00 per article, but I am guessing with a little experience they will want to up their rate. I am trying to see if I can get more bang for the buck, if their rate does go up.

Skipper