{"id":68478,"date":"2006-01-09T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/cranking-it-out-2\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T21:31:00","slug":"cranking-it-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2006\/cranking-it-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranking It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I found among a list of jobs for writers: <\/p>\n<p>We are looking for writers to work on the following project: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Author many short (100-200) word articles on a variety of keywords (keyword list will be provided). <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Author site map for your work. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ensure the content achieves an 8-12% keyword density rating. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ability to crank out at least 50 such articles a week <\/p>\n<p>Qualifications: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Use Dreamweaver or Frontpage <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Know how to FTP content to a site <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Previous web writing experience (send URLs) <\/p>\n<p>Compensation: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Paid on a per article basis. <\/p>\n<p>Is this the job for you? You can find it on Craigslist.org if you want to. It sounds like they want someone to write spam, to me. I guess I still have a bit too much pride in my writing to consider it something I&#8217;d &#8220;crank out&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not being stuffy, just thinking of the work and creativity and craft involved in creating a readable article and then comparing that to something you&#8217;d crank out 50 times a week. <\/p>\n<p>Could you do it? Even if you would take the job, could you write 50 short articles about random topics each week? I guess if it really didn&#8217;t matter how interesting or unique they were, you could. Of course, you have to consider how dense the keywords are. That seems to be the only content that matters. <\/p>\n<p>Kind of sad if web writing comes to this, cranking out keywords for search engines to latch onto. <\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is that search engines don&#8217;t all use spiders any more. Some have real people who aren&#8217;t impressed with a lot of half assed articles full of keywords. Even if those sites get listed and show up at the top of the search that&#8217;s no guarantee of getting clicks. Not real clicks that stick around and actually look at the site. After all, getting clicks isn&#8217;t enough. If people come to the site, find nothing and leave. You&#8217;re not ahead of the game. <\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s paying work for some writer. Not me though. Not that I couldn&#8217;t use the money. I just don&#8217;t want to be known for cranking out articles when I could be creating something unique, with real value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2006\/cranking-it-out-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Cranking It Out\"><p>Here&#8217;s something I found among a list of jobs for writers: We are looking for writers to work on the following project: &#8211; Author many short (100-200) word articles on a variety of keywords (keyword list will be provided). &#8211; Author site map for your work. &#8211; Ensure the content achieves an 8-12% keyword density [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1244,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}