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Darn you, Nate, I almost wasted the rest of my afternoon poking around ModCloth!

They are just using the main description and cutting it off, which I think is a missed opportunity. I'd do a one to two-line intro to the piece, the same way you would preface a link to an article on Twitter. I'd either take a line or two from the original description and stop there, or draft up one based on the most salient features of the item.

If you need writers to help ramp up, we have some capacity on our UK site. (textbroker.co.uk).

As much as I love content, creation is only part of the battle. You may want to think about social media, guest blogging and relationship-building to help promote your content. Of course, you'd have to look at where your client's customers are and go from there.

Good luck!

We set up a dummy personal account solely to create and manage pages for each language we work in (Textbroker Germany, Textbroker US, France, etc.). When our employees like the page, we can turn them into an admin. It's not sharing personal data but allowing access from the personal account.

Good luck!

I agree with EGOL that you shouldn't edit someone's existing review or post. I would offer a spell-check option within the review editor on your site and encourage your reviewers to use it.

Hi Nancy,

It looks like you're opening a comma-separated CSV with a different delimiter. My first suggestion is to see if there's a way to open the file with a comma delimiter. The delimiter is the character that tells the CSV to start a new cell or row.

If you can't find one, I'd recommend downloading OpenOffice (it's free and legit, run by Apache) and opening the file in it. The great thing about OpenOffice is that, unlike Excel, it asks what delimiter you want for your data. Choosing a comma should do the trick, and you should see the data line up correctly in the preview pane.

We have this issue in reverse -  we provide CSVs that are semi-colon separated by default. Our European customers open them easily. Our American customers need this work-around.

Good luck!

Unfortunately, article directories didn't carry much link juice to begin with, and as Francisco said, Panda and Penguin have pretty much negated them as SEO tactics entirely. You might want to look at guest blogging, but make sure your articles are really something your readers will enjoy.

Good luck!

I see companies run into this all the time, and it gets me as well. The question is "How do I differentiate myself or my client from everyone else out there?"

You can still cover the same topics as the competition, but put your (client's) own spin on things. I think it's time to define some strategy - who is he targeting, and how does he want to interact with that group? Is he a young, hip guy? An older pillar of the community? That's where to start. Once you get those two aspects down, then the writer will have something to base the content off of, and you all can jointly develop a brand and tone.

Good luck!

We find that general topics, like pop music or celebrity news, start at around 2.5 cents per word for good quality. You can certainly find cheaper writers, but you run the risk of blog posts with grammatical errors and weak argumentation.

The more in-depth or technical the content needs to be, the more expensive it will become. Legal writing specialists, for example, charge much higher rates.

With more than 100,000 US-based authors, we can help with whatever niche you may need.

I agree with EGOL that you shouldn't edit someone's existing review or post. I would offer a spell-check option within the review editor on your site and encourage your reviewers to use it.

Hi Nancy,

It looks like you're opening a comma-separated CSV with a different delimiter. My first suggestion is to see if there's a way to open the file with a comma delimiter. The delimiter is the character that tells the CSV to start a new cell or row.

If you can't find one, I'd recommend downloading OpenOffice (it's free and legit, run by Apache) and opening the file in it. The great thing about OpenOffice is that, unlike Excel, it asks what delimiter you want for your data. Choosing a comma should do the trick, and you should see the data line up correctly in the preview pane.

We have this issue in reverse -  we provide CSVs that are semi-colon separated by default. Our European customers open them easily. Our American customers need this work-around.

Good luck!

Darn you, Nate, I almost wasted the rest of my afternoon poking around ModCloth!

They are just using the main description and cutting it off, which I think is a missed opportunity. I'd do a one to two-line intro to the piece, the same way you would preface a link to an article on Twitter. I'd either take a line or two from the original description and stop there, or draft up one based on the most salient features of the item.

We set up a dummy personal account solely to create and manage pages for each language we work in (Textbroker Germany, Textbroker US, France, etc.). When our employees like the page, we can turn them into an admin. It's not sharing personal data but allowing access from the personal account.

Good luck!