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    April 2009 Edit
    Here's something that may be of interest and I guess it belongs here as it has a huge benefit for SEO.

    One thing we struggle with is finding the time and the talent to write decent length, good for SEO, product descriptions. Most of our bigger competitors just use the standard waffle and we can often get to top spot in google by creating a good 250 word description with plenty of keywords.

    So, I decided to try freelancer.co.uk and put up an and asking for somebody who could re-write or create good descriptions. I wasn't expecting much but within a week we have had over 100 offers. I've only got around to replying to the first 10 or so and from those, picked a couple who could actually string a sentence together. So I've now got a couple guys writing us nice descriptions in 2 unique versions (1 for each site) for around £4-5 per product.

    I have had offers down to a quid a product but need a bit of quality control. It's only been a week but I'm sure the benefits for SEO are going to far outweight the cost of this work.

    Just food for thought. There are also loads of people on there offering all kinds of stuff from php to SEO to blog writing etc.
     
  • malbromalbro
     
    April 2009
    Stereo Steve said:
    Here's something that may be of interest and I guess it belongs here as it has a huge benefit for SEO.

    One thing we struggle with is finding the time and the talent to write decent length, good for SEO, product descriptions. Most of our bigger competitors just use the standard waffle and we can often get to top spot in google by creating a good 250 word description with plenty of keywords.

    So, I decided to try freelancer.co.uk and put up an and asking for somebody who could re-write or create good descriptions. I wasn't expecting much but within a week we have had over 100 offers. I've only got around to replying to the first 10 or so and from those, picked a couple who could actually string a sentence together. So I've now got a couple guys writing us nice descriptions in 2 unique versions (1 for each site) for around £4-5 per product.

    I have had offers down to a quid a product but need a bit of quality control. It's only been a week but I'm sure the benefits for SEO are going to far outweight the cost of this work.

    Just food for thought. There are also loads of people on there offering all kinds of stuff from php to SEO to blog writing etc.
    I found this site via Ben at Actinic, as they have used it themselves, prices seem good but as you say quality control would be vital.
     
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    April 2009 Edit
    I asked for one sample. Then based on that commissioned them to each write 10 descriptions at a fixed price and we would pay, whatever they were like. The worst we edited ourselves and used, the best have been put onto further jobs.
     
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    April 2009 Edit
    Cheers for that Steve, we have 1000's of products and its such a chore trying to be inventive and different with the description all the time.
    I always sound like me!

    Now that for me gets a goat point.
     
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    April 2009 Edit
    I know, same here. It seems like a lot of cash really but we are doing it over time and really, nost of our products are about £5 anyway so we are effectively sacrificing one unit of probably 2-300 that we buy in the first place to get an SEO friendly description and hopefully increase sales on that item and across the site generally.
     
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    April 2009 Edit
    totally agree Steve.
    And if you're canny with the products you do it for and the products you link from them you could be pretty strategic...

    Don't you find so much stuff just never gets done, tweaks here a blog there; great to have a way to get a few things off the list. :)
     
  • DarrenDarren
     
    April 2009
    So much stuff, you can say that again. I have a 1000 and 1 jobs to either look start or finish. So as your freeing up some of yours do you fancy comming and doing some of mine
     
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    April 2009 Edit
    Darren said:
    comming


    when you learn to spell Darren :p
     
  • DarrenDarren
     
    April 2009
    Donna said:
    when you learn to spell Darren :p


    Oi dont you start, you have been mixing with the mean people again. "polishes his adminsitrator badge"
     
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    April 2009 Edit
    Darren said:
    you have been mixing with the mean people again.


    LMAO
    The mean people have me stuck at work with nowt to eat 'cept a speckley banana.:eek:
     
  • jontjont
     
    April 2009
    .. and 300lb of sprinkles!!!!
     
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    April 2009 Edit
    Along a similar theme - we have commissioned a number of articles for our site (on exciting subjects such as Pet Water Fountains and Catnip!)

    Tried 3 different companies and all were pretty good and the cost very reasonable at between £8 & £15 per article.

    Also had to tweak a little - but that is so much easier than starting from scratch and writing myself.
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    April 2009
    odesk seem to be a cracking website to 'offload' some work.
    The system they use seems straight forward and easy to manage.
     
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