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Hello EGOL,

Thank you for your reply, always enjoy reading what you have to say.

If I was to pay someone $25 an hour for a piece of content that took a week to complete, then that would be a $1000 article based on a 40 hour week.

Surely you have built up your readers, twitter account and email list over time and are at a stage where people are just ready and waiting to reference your posts.

I am not financially equipped to produce a $1000 article and wait a year for it to become ranked, this is all defendant on income in vs income out.

If I am earning $100 a year from 1 post that is costing me $1000 to produce then I am going to need to make a huge investment where I would just break even.

If I work to this equation that by paying $1000 per week with an income of $100 per year then after 52 weeks I would have made an investment of $49,454.00 and be earning $97.92 per week

It would actually take me 522 weeks to earn $1000 a week with a total investment of just over 1/4 million dollars and would take 1043 weeks to fully recuperate that money.

Even if I could earn $1000 a year from 1 blog post it would take 1 year just to break even and an investment of $25000. You may be able to afford $1000 articles but I certainly can't.

Would love to see one of these articles that takes a week to produce, mind sharing?

Very informative Robert, thank you.

In the past I’ve made many mistakes when hiring content writers/bloggers, the end result is that my targeted traffic is no better off even after investing several thousand dollars in to it.

I have a blog with 400+ posts, each being over 500 words of unique content yet my traffic is under 30 a day. I use wordtracker for my keyword research so I don’t think that is the problem.

Instead of hiring cheap writers from eastern European countries I want to hire people that know what they are writing about, someone that is an expert in the niche, someone like Rand Fishkin and Dr.pete for SEOmoz, always enjoy reading their posts and that is what I want on my own blog.

I always refer new writers to this post >> http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization and have recently had someone complete 40 articles for $200, but this isn’t what I want. I want people to come to my blog, enjoy it, and be satisfied with what they have read. I don’t want people to read the junk I have produced by someone that has no idea what they are writing about.

The Panda updates have affected me in a negative way so it’s now time to change.

I have attempted to hire “good bloggers” before. $25 an article sound reasonable? I now felt like I was getting scammed which was maybe due to lack of direction as the articles I was getting were not satisfactory.

Is it better to have a writer physically come and work in my office? Or is it ok just to pay someone by the article at the comfort of their own home?

So the simple question is how do I find great bloggers?