Articles are not just some contents written to impress search engines. Traditional articles especially for commercial websites were written by expert copywriters who have years of experience in writing sales letters. Articles are not valued based on size or money but its based on quality and appeal to end users. If a copy for your homepage impresses 100 users then you are sure to pay higher price for that copy than a copy that every user to your website hates reading.

Cheap articles are everywhere. There are forums like sitepoint where cheap copywriters advertise their writing for 0.01,0.02 cent per word. I have tried few of those copywriters and I never got the quality I was looking for most of them were just paraphrasing from other sites. None of them had any sort of creativity in their writing, good creativity is very important for good copywriting skills. There are sites where freelancers offer cheap copywriting if you are just looking for a filler then you can look out for articles from places like elance.com , getafreelancer.com, rentacoder.com , freelancer.com, odesk.com etc. Remember all these places are good places but the articles written by the freelancers here are always of low quality.

Most good professional SEO writers will be writing for themselves, and will inevitably make more money through consulting on SEO than they will writing articles for someone else so its not easy to find good article writers. If you get a good article writer I am sure they charge atleast 50$ per article. There are people who write for magazines charge 150$ per article, its difficult to give a price for an article. Article price is purely based on the type of article you are looking for and from the type of people you are looking for.

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