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How to compare SEO blog writing services

1. Decide what the articles are for before you buy volume. Articles that answer buying questions close to the sale behave differently from top-of-funnel explainers that build reach. Say which you want and how success will be judged, because a service optimising for word count will happily deliver the cheaper kind forever if you never specify.
2. Buy one paid sample on your hardest topic. Pick a subject where you would notice a mistake, pay full rate for a single article, and read it as a customer and as an expert. One paid sample tells you more than any portfolio, because portfolios show the best work a service has ever produced rather than the median.
3. Ask who writes, who edits and who checks facts. Get names and roles, whether writers are in-house or a marketplace, whether a subject-matter editor reads drafts, and what the revision policy is. Ask directly about the use of generative tools and what human review happens afterwards; you want the answer in writing rather than a shrug.
4. Check what comes with the words. Confirm whether the price includes keyword research, briefs, internal linking, images, meta titles and descriptions, schema, and publishing into your CMS. Two quotes that look far apart are often identical once you line up what each one actually delivers alongside the draft.

How blog writing is priced, and what moves the number

Three pricing shapes dominate: per word, per article, and a monthly retainer for an agreed number of pieces. Per word is the easiest to compare and the easiest to game, because a writer paid by the word has no reason to cut anything. Per article is generally healthier, since it prices the outcome rather than the length, but only if the brief defines what the article must contain. Retainers make sense once you are publishing steadily and want a writer who learns your business rather than restarting each month.

What actually moves the price is research depth and subject difficulty. A general-interest article assembled from public sources is inexpensive. An article requiring an interview with your engineer, a look at your own data, or a writer who understands regulated territory costs several times more and is worth it, because it is the part your competitors cannot replicate. Volume discounts exist, but treat a very low per-article price as information: someone is being paid very little, and the research budget is the first thing that gets cut.

What separates an article that ranks from filler

Google's helpful content guidance asks whether a page shows first-hand expertise, whether it delivers substantial value compared with what already ranks, and whether a reader would feel satisfied rather than sent back to search. In practice that means specifics: real numbers attributed to real sources, an actual position rather than an even-handed survey of everyone else's, examples from work someone has done, and a structure that answers the question in the first paragraph instead of after five hundred words of preamble.

The filler version is recognisable at a glance. It restates the question, lists what everyone else already listed, hedges every claim, and ends with a paragraph inviting the reader to contact us today. It will occasionally rank in an empty market and it will not survive contact with a competitor who published something better. If a service cannot show you an article that takes a clear position on a contested question, they are selling the filler version at the good version's price.

Ownership, disclosure and the terms that matter

Get copyright assignment in writing. The default in many contracts is a licence rather than a transfer, which becomes awkward if you later want to republish, syndicate or sell the business. Confirm that drafts, briefs and research are yours, and that nothing is reused for another client.

If articles will carry bylines, decide honestly whose name goes on them and whether that name did the work. Where content includes endorsements, reviews or affiliate arrangements, the FTC's endorsement guidance requires that material connections are disclosed clearly, and that obligation sits with the advertiser, not the freelancer. A writing service that has never raised disclosure with you has not thought about the part that carries legal risk.

Questions people actually ask

How many articles a month do I need?

Fewer and better beats more and thinner in almost every market that already has competition. A steady rhythm of two to four strong pieces a month, each aimed at a query you can realistically win, generally outperforms a dozen shallow posts. If your market is genuinely empty, volume can work for a while, until someone publishes something better.

Should I let a service use AI to write drafts?

Google's guidance judges content by quality and usefulness rather than by how it was produced, so the question is whether the result is genuinely helpful and accurate. Ask what the human contribution is: original research, interviews, examples, fact checking. A service that cannot describe its review step is selling you unreviewed output at a writer's rate.

Do I need keyword research included?

You need it done, by someone. Writing to a query nobody searches, or to one you cannot compete for, wastes the whole article no matter how good it is. Either buy research as part of the package or supply briefs yourself, but do not assume a writing service is choosing topics strategically unless the contract says so.

How long before articles produce anything?

Individual articles typically need a few months to settle, and the compounding effect of a library takes longer still. Judge early progress by impressions and by whether pages are indexed at all, rather than by traffic, and review the whole programme at six months rather than cancelling after two.

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