These days I’m running numerous websites and don’t have time to write for them all. I still need content though, and so have been outsourcing some writing for the last couple of years or so.

While I did find some good writers through Elance, and also got some real garbage too and so earlier in the year joined Need An Article, a monthly subscription service with fixed price articles. The price is pretty low and costs $10 per month membership and then a little over $5 for a 350-500 word article and was recommended by Dan Raine at Immediate Edge.

However, once again the quality is completely variable.

Sometimes the articles are fantastic, sometimes they look as of they are made up of random sentences flung together. And so I ask myself – why do these writers think they can write? Writing is more than putting words on a page – anyone can do that – for website articles it’s a case of presenting ideas in a form that can be easily digested by the people they’re aimed at, and should be interesting to read and accurate.

Which doesn’t describe some of the articles I’ve been delivered lately.

Do you have any tips or advice on getting quality articles written?