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I need a copywriter to fluff up some text for SEO on a website.. but it's not in the list of things on offer, and I'd happily $12 an hour for that kind of work.

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Wondering if $12 for copywriting work is expensive. An article with relevant content & tuned for SEO within an hour is fairly demanding. A good 500 word article will cost $15 in the market.

I run SEO services & have been using this new startup mediapiston.com as the content provider. I have had good experience so far. They have excellent review process where each article goes through 3 reviewers before it is submitted back to the requester. You can possibly try such a service.

As far as the author, programming & design work would get best rewards and in single chunk.

I don't think his intention is to find and match perfect market prices, he's just throwing this out there to see what happens. Note also that given his skill set, if one was marketing to a technical audience, $12/hour might be cheap...

This is correct. I'm seeing what happens, and if I can get my bills off my back. My standard rate for work is $25/hr so I'm currently quite discounted, just to get some work quickly.

I pay my copywriter $200 per hour. What you're calling "copywriting" is actually "article writing," and what you're calling "good" is actually "not horrendously terrible". They are demonstratively not the same thing. My copywriter can prove that she increases conversion rate, and thus money, not just search engine uptake.

Jor from MediaPiston here. We recently AB tested with a daily deals provider to compare email open rate and click rate of deal descriptions, and beat the internal team to win their business. Not all online services that involve copy writing have to be crud quality just because the writers happen to be working from home.

I never said anything about working from home. I said $12 per hour isn't real copywriting.

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