The 99 Cents Articles Crap
By Review Boss on Jul 24, 2009 with Comments 14
My Experience with 99CentsArticles.com
If you are an active member at few popular marketing forums then you probably noticed this special offer about article writing service. The offer title pretty much grabs everyone’s attention (99 cents articles!)
Review Updates : July 23rd 2010
I have received lots of emails from 99Cents owner Michael to remove this review as it is hurting their business. I certainly do not want to kill anyone’s service oriented business as long as they provide some value. Further, I was told that 99 Cents now only employs native English Writers. But I suspect.
For the review purpose I received another set of 25 articles written on 5 different topics. Though I could see some improvement it was disappointing again. The main problem is their writers don’t understand the topics (even the popular ones like affiliate marketing, weight loss, SEO etc.) They don’t have the ability to research and write in their own style which is what really needed. It looks like they were trained to plagiarize content for the given subject/keyword.
- Plenty of spelling, grammar, punctuation mistakes in every article.
- Lots of paragraphs were ripped from sites like Wikipedia and spun from synonyms database.
- Some sentences absolutely don’t make any sense.
- No continuity of paragraph or relationship between two paragraph. Probably because they ripped content from 4-5 articles and spun it. That’s why it’s awkward for human readers.
- Massive editing is needed if you want to submit them to quality human edited content sites like ezinearticles.com
The Pros:
- You get unique content. That’s for sure. These articles are good for WEB2.0 spamming & content blasting for the sole purpose of building backlinks to your website.
- 500 words articles for less than $5. Nice deal! (?)
- They are capable of producing large quantity of articles within a reasonable time period.
Conclusion: You get what you pay for. Low price but cheap quality – if you are fine with that then I have no problem. I’m not a native English speaker myself, so no need to spot any mistakes in this review
Old Review:
Just 99 cents for writing an article? Wow!
Well, the truth is, it’s not 99 cents for an entire article; 99 cents per 100 words. A clever idea which grabs your attention. However, that’s completely acceptable in a marketing world. There are people who charge $1 per word, so for 350 words article you have to pay $350. Compare that with 99centsarticles.com’s service. You get 350 words article for less than 3.5 bucks… cool.
There are many positive feed backs on Warrior forum for this service. So I decided to give it a try and bought 10 unique articles on variety of topics. They promised delivery within 7 days. But I had to wait more than 15 days and had to send them reminder. However, I can understand that they were flooded with lots of orders.
Alright, I received 10 articles from them. I have attached two articles below as image so that you can see the quality.
(Click on the image to see larger view)
What a piece of gibberish crap! Do you honestly think these articles worth 3 bucks?
Stolen content rewritten. Not actually rewritten – spun using some software! Of course, these articles are human readable, but, it doesn’t make any sense at all.
If you have already bought it then you probably got better (or worsen) than mine. However, this is what you should expect from 99 cents crap writers!
Let me know what you think?
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Yes, I had looked at 99 cent articles as well. I saw someone on ezinearticles promoting them. Their article was not written well, so your entry here just reinforced my feelings that their articles were not something I would want my name attached to.
That is the danger of outsourcing one’s articles. It is difficult to find native English speakers. And even when you find them, it is just as difficult to find those that have a good English language skills.
Here I am talking about good English language skills and I made a mistake in the above post. Can’t edit it, so this is the next best thing. My last blurb should have read…..’it is just as difficult to find those that have good English language skills.’
I do notice on warrior forums that a lot of people do use this service. One person mentioned not being happy with a set of articles and 99 cent articles sent her new ones that she was happy with.
Possibly if one works with them, you would get adequate articles.
I know of another service where the articles are $8 per article. The SEO is great but though the articles make sense, it is evident that the articles are written by people that are not proficient with English language skills.
For myself personally, I don’t like to attach my name to articles that clearly show inadequate English language skills. But for some, they don’t care as they are simply looking for the backlinks to their site.
I haven't used them before but I've used other non-english speaking low cost article writers – I've paid around $10/article. They are all similar to the samples you posted. I typically, use them for the research and then re-write the articles in good english. Re-writing a 400-500 word article takes around 20 minutes but it works for me because I only use few articles a month to post on our blog and article directories. I manually spin it a bit to post in different places but that doesn't take too much time either.
I think these low cost services are good value for money. The other option is to hire someone more expensive but it adds up depending on how many articles you need.
And I typically give them the topics that I want. I don't just give them keywords and have them come up with crap. I have very specific instructions on what content I want. I don't even mention keywords. I add keywords myself when I rewrite.
I pay .08 per word to a woman on RentACoder, LisaG, who is ranked #2 out of the more than 200,000 service providers there. She's not cheap but I'm proud to put my name on anything she writes.
need-an-article.com offers articles per $5 to $6 a piece. Check it out. You won't be disappointed
Cheers!.
I just used them and found the ripped off an ezine article. Now I want my 99 cents back. Luckly it was put on a credit card. Time to stop payment.
Took over 35 days to receive a couple of articles. Absolutely re-wrote using software and is useless. Never again
I did use them once – 5 articles I waited about 10 or 12 days for them and not one of them made sense. I started re-writing them myself, but they were so bad and I thought I paid, so I shouldnt have to do this much work. I complained and told Michael (?) they didnt make any sense, he apologized and I received another set of 5 another two or so weeks later and thet were much better. He said that he’s got better writers now (that was around Oct 2009). I still had to re-write, but a lot had to do with my topic since it was a little unfamiliar. I have seen some “ideas” in my articles on other websites, but thats to be expected since they did their research. But like Ash said – its good for research and a little re-writing will usually help. So I’m thinking about using them again – I was just searching for their site and found this post
Thanks for this review. I was browsing the Warrior Forum for a WSO in article writing when I found this one. Good thing your review came in second for 99 cent articles keyword.
This is interesting. I was just trying to get their site again, with the intention of buying from them, but I will have to re-think that.
Thank you for the review.
My best,
Anthony
I am with you.
I purchased 60 articles from this fraud.
It took 6 re-writes and 3 months before I was able to get some reasonable articles (I still had to rewrite them) Some of the articles were ripped off others were pure junk.
If you use an article writing service you really need to spend $10 – $15 for a good article.
Thanks folks!
I was just going to part with my hard earned money on this site for 100 articles! A sucker born every minute…but thanks to you, they won’t be seeing any of it.
Thanks Again.
Purchased 50 articles from them for a low price. What I received back was great, well-written, and grammatically correct articles that were written exactly on target to what I asked for.
Will be back for more.. their writers seem to have improved.
-Chris
{Admin Note} This comment looks very suspicious and paid testimonial!
If you say that the above two articles are crap then you should provide proof in detail. For me they are just articles, readable and understandable.
I can°t see anything wrong on first sight.