FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Answered: Article Writing: 1. What will be the size of the articles you write? We’ll write articles of 300 to 350 words. This is the optimum size from the angle of cost effectiveness. So, we’ve optimized our system for this size. Anything more (or less), and the uniqueness of the articles re-created could suffer. The 550+ unique articles re-created would also be of approximately the same size, plus or minus about 10%. The exact size of individual versions could vary marginally from the original. 2. Can you (or I) write larger/ smaller articles (than 300 words), if I want? Yes, we can (subject to the issues mentioned above). However, it would add to our work, proportionately, not only in article writing, but also in re-creating 550+ unique versions, submission, and the additional task of coordinating a non-standard size. However, we will charge only a proportionately higher fee for larger articles, that is, $5 per 100 words ordered (or part thereof). For smaller articles, there will be no increase in fee. Please bear in mind that that this service has been optimized for 300 to 350-word articles. Therefore, the confidence with which we assure you of ‘uniqueness’ of the different versions (among themselves) will be less, when the article size ordered is more than 500 words or less than 250 words. However, rest assured that we’ll do all we can to keep your article versions unique. 3. Can you write articles on technical topics? How about Adult topics? We can write articles on technical topics; in fact, we can write on just about any topic, other than those that are illegal to promote. For example, we can write on electronics & telecom, wireless, mobile, gadgets, engineering, medicine, alternative medicine, religion, philosophy, cultures, or what have you - subject to the availability of adequate information to write about. We may, sometimes, have to get a specialist writer, with knowledge of your subject, to do the writing; if you agree. Occasionally we may be unable to write on some esoteric subject, even for a higher fee, though we don’t think this may ever happen. We don't undertake writing and/or submitting articles promoting pornography, gambling, weapons, smoking, online pharmacies, and the like. If you're not sure whether we would handle your subject, please write to us seeking our clarification before ordering 4. Can you write articles to promote affiliate products including ClickBank products? Yes, we can. Our article will be of higher quality if we get access to more info on the product than just the sales page. However, we may not be able to read a whole lot of content, such as an entire ebook, before we write articles, unless the number of articles ordered on the product in one go justifies the time we need to spend reading such substantial content. (Incidentally, if you have or propose to have many affiliates working for you, please do contact us through Help Desk, explaining your business and the number of affiliates you have. We may have an interesting unique article proposition for your affiliates that could help your affiliates sell your products many times over.) 5. Can you assure me that the articles you give are fresh & original? Absolutely. You must be aware that there are millions of web sites, blogs and other forms of content out there, and hence, software like copyscape may show up even some chance occurrences of overlap across content. However, on a good reading of the content of the sites, it will be apparent that any overlap is not due to copying. We guarantee more than 50% uniqueness from others’ content and 30% uniqueness in comparison with the seed article and versions generated from it (as tested using third party testing software like CopyFrePro and DupeCop). Our actual articles will be much better than our bottom-line guarantees. If you can prove otherwise (due to any reason, including failure of our staff), we’ll give you a full refund. 6. Can I see the article written in my name before you re-create and submit 500+ unique ones out of it? May I edit the article you write? Sure, if you want to. If you are hard pressed for time, and prefer us to re-create 500+ unique versions directly and submit them without showing it to you, that’s fine too. You’ll decide on this at the time of ordering. If you choose to edit the article we write, you take the responsibility for the edited article, as we may not re-edit it. We’ll just re-create 500+ unique versions from your approved version, and submit. 7. Who owns the copyrights to the articles you write for me? Of course, you do, since we only write for hire. 8. Can you (or I) re-create the re-created articles further into 550+ versions, and get 550 x 550 versions? No, don’t attempt to do that. Nor will we do it, though this is technically feasible. Remember, every re-creation will reduce the ‘uniqueness’ of the versions. 9. Can I write my own articles, and use your services only for re-creation into 550+ versions and submission to the top 10 Social Networking sites, Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites, Top 10 RSS Feeds, and the top 500+ directories? Yes, we offer such a service too. In such a case, we may not edit or proofread your article. The Fee for such a service will be $32 per article (against the fee of $37 per article when we also write the original seed article.)   10. Can I buy and give you PLR articles, and use your services only for re-creation into 550+ versions and submission to the top 10 Social Networking sites, Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites, Top 10 RSS Feeds, and the top 500+ article directories?  Yes, you can, though we don’t recommend this. While you may save a few $s per article this way, this could result in a certain (unpredictable) degree of loss of uniqueness in comparison with someone else’s spun/ re-created versions of the same article. However, if you give us a PLR article that you like and want us to treat the PLR as a brief and rewrite a fresh article and use our standard service, your article won’t suffer in uniqueness. In case you’d like to rewrite the PLR article yourself (and you’re confident of doing a good job of it), and pay us only for re-creation and submission, that’s fine too. 11. Can you create more than 550 unique versions, say 1000 versions, for me? Yes, we can. Please contact us with your specific requirement through ‘Help Desk’.   12. Can I see some samples of your articles? Sure. Please click the following links and have a look at some of our articles. http://ezinearticles.com/?Alpaca-Farming---Does-Alpaca-Fiber-Spell-Fortunes?&id=838146 http://ezinearticles.com/?Do-Top-Selling-HDTVs-Stand-Up-To-Strict-Scrutiny?-Part-1&id=987510 http://ezinearticles.com/?International-Niche-Marketing---The-Emperor-has-No-Clothes&id=785384 http://www.1clickarticlemarketing.com/article-writing/will-your-article-make-it-to-the-top-will-it-drive-traffic-sales Please remember that the style and substance of an article depends on the subject. If you have a specific style in mind, we could write as you specify. 13. Are the articles you write similar to PLR articles? Will you be writing multiple articles for multiple customers using the same PLR content? No, our writing is in no way similar to PLR articles. If you give us original ideas, or broad outlines of original content, or even your old articles or your blog/ site content, we’ll write your article based on any or all of these, in which case the articles will be that much original. Otherwise, our writers will research the net and create the articles, just for you. Though the ideas for the articles may be obtained through web search, the articles will be originally written. They will NOT be ‘‘spun’’ using PLR content, and they won’t be given to anyone else. They will be uniquely created for you. If you take a PLR article/ other content and ‘spin’ using an article spinner, you’ll get multiple articles, no doubt,… but anyone else ’spinning’ the same PLR article is also likely to get somewhat similar content. So, your purpose of reconstructing original articles will be defeated. Neither will we do this, nor will we recommend you to. Article Spinning Vs Re-Creation 14. What is Article 'spinning'? Internet business owners (and even not-for-profits) write and publish articles mainly for 2 purposes: (1) to reach their target markets through search engines (SEs) who would read these articles and visit their sites, resulting in direct free traffic to the sites; (2) to get back links for their sites and move up the Search Engine rankings. Since there are 100’s of good article directories, article owners naturally want to maximize the impact of their articles by submitting to many (or all) of them,apart from the top 10 Social Networking sites, Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites, Top 10 RSS Feeds, and get more free traffic and back links. If they submit the same identical articles, popular Search Engines like Google may normally give credence to just one back link; also many article directories reject such duplicate articles. Article ’spinners’ came in precisely to address this issue. They help article owners ‘spin’ multiple articles out of one (or more). Though the substance of the ‘spun’ articles will be the same, the wordings will be different. Search Engines will see the ‘spun’ articles as being different from the original. Article ’spinning’ involves a 2-stage process: (1) substituting words, either using a software tool that shows synonyms or manually based on the user’s writing skills, and (2) using appropriate software to ‘spin’. Both the quality of word substitution and that of ’spinning’ software play an important role in determining the quality of unique articles ‘spun’. Though you may ‘spin’ to make search engines see the articles as being different, you write for real people to read (unless your goal is merely getting links, and you don’t care about what people will think of you when they read your articles that look like garbage). It has been found that the benefit you get from people reading your articles and finding their way to your site far outweighs the benefit of back links. So, the quality of unique articles produced is very important. Most software-’spun’ articles are plain junk. And most articles ‘spun’ manually are done mechanically by people with little skill in writing and at high speed (that explains their cheapness); so you end up paying for and getting garbage. (If you’d like to read a sample of such an article ‘spun’ using software, please click here .) 15. Do Search Engines approve of Article 'spinning'? Search Engines do not like ‘spun’ articles; but even more so - the people who read them. Rewritten articles are acceptable to SEs and humans. Let’s remember that there is always only one set of original content on any topic (be it Atkins diet, angiograms, or alternative medicine), but many sites write about them. Search engines will, therefore, have no objection to rewritten articles that are as good as the original, as long as the people who read them like them. 16. Do you 'spin' articles? We don’t ‘spin’ articles. We don’t use any automated software. We re-create unique articles by a unique process of manual (not software-driven) word, phrase, clause and even sentence modification, based on the context. So, even the structures of sentences of our re-created versions could be different. Our professional article writers do this re-creation work, not someone without language skills. And subsequently, we re-create unique versions using our own in-house software that can produce over 1000+ unique (non-duplicate) articles from our modifications. So, you’re assured of very high quality unique articles, as good as the original we write for you initially (which you can choose to approve). Article Re-creation: 17. How do you make sure the articles you re-create are as good as the original, and yet unique? Our trained writers, don’t merely substitute word for word, or phrase for phrase, or even sentence for sentence. Being article writers, they re-create the thoughts and ideas, depending on the context. And make sure that any version that is created is as good as the original. After this process is completed, our proprietary software takes over. It has been programmed to create unique articles making use of statistically validated algorithms. This means more than a million comparisons. The chances of any two of the 550+ versions being less than 30% unique are close to zero. You can read a sample of one of our seed articles and 4 unique versions we re-created here: [ http://www.1clickarticlemarketing.com/articlemarketing/seedanduniques.htm ] Article Submission: 18. Will you submit the articles to the relevant categories in the article directories? Yes, we will. Different article directories have different ways of categorizing articles. Though there may be some categories common, across some article directories, it’s a Herculean task to submit the articles automatically (or manually) to the directories, so that they are all submitted to relevant directories. Our submission system has been designed to map articles to the article directories submitted to. There are many categories under which any given article could be submitted to a directory. Our software will identify one such category for every article directory, individually, and submit there; we can instruct our software to submit to the best fit category, if you indicate up to 5 preferences while ordering. Automation Vs Semi-Automation Of The Process 19. Is your article marketing process (article writing, re-creation, submission and reporting) totally automated? Contrary to popular belief, automating processes in what are essentially human tasks won’t produce results of acceptable quality. This is the reason why you get garbage most often when you ‘spin’ a good article. (If you’ve not read a sample of a software-’spun’ article, please click here .) We have deliberately chosen not to automate our complete process of article writing, re-creation and submission. However, to make life easier for you, we have made it “1 Click” operation for you. Behind the scenes, we handle a complex combination of several manual and automatic activities that deliver the results for you. Our article writing process is manual. We then get the article approved by you. Then we prepare it for re-creating the 550+ uniques, again manually. Then our software re-creates the unique versions, and submits to the top 10 Social Networking sites, Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites, Top 10 RSS Feeds, and the top 500+ Article Directories, one version per directory. It also reports on the success of each submission. We have automated the process only to the extent quality won’t suffer. Article Directories: 20. Do Search Engines really pick up the articles for surfers to read, or do these articles just languish in the directories? It depends. There are basically 3 kinds of articles. Some articles are top class, written extremely well, provocative, controversial, or earth-shaking. They usually make it to the top, and bring in tons of free traffic. They constitute less than 0.1% of the articles on the web. If you give us your own articles that have these characteristics, and let us just re-create the 500+ unique versions and submit them, your article stands the best chance of making it to the top. If your subject is unique, and you give us unique ideas (not found elsewhere), and if they have the power to pull in customers, what we write for you may well belong to this category (though we can’t promise, because even the best ghostwriter can’t write as well as the subject matter expert). We believe we have among the best of article ghostwriters with us. The second kind of articles are the reasonably good ones - they’ll bring you moderate free traffic, and provide back links (due to right use of anchor texts), so your articles get your site a decent ranking too, over time. The third kind of articles get you back links, at best; often, they don’t even get many back links because of poor anchor texts; at worst, they could get your site sandboxed due to poor anchor texts. But otherwise, the third kind of articles just sit languishing in the directories. Most of our articles would belong to the second category, though we’d strive to get a few of them to come in the first category. We don’t expect our writing to belong to the third category, unless your niche or topic has the inherent weakness. 21. I have already registered with some of the article directories in your list. Will you create ‘Log In’s only for the other directories in your list? Yes. However, you’ll have to pay our standard fee for creating ‘Log In’s for the complete list of our directories. 22. May I suggest addition of article directories of my choice to your list? Sure. We’re always on the look out to improve our list of article directories to be the best 500+. Any inputs from you toward this is always welcome. 23. Can you create ‘Log In’s to article directories of my choice (other than the ones to which you submit)? We’ll create ‘Log In’s for your list of article directories, if you order ‘Log In’s for our standard list of 500+ Directories. We’ll additionally charge $10 per custom list of 25 Article Directories (that you give for which we should create ‘Log In’s). We may have to be excused from creating ‘Log In’s for directories where we encounter difficulties.    24. Do you submit to 100s of genuine sites that actually exist and accept articles? Yes, that’s what we do. However, there are some directories that only accept articles in specific niches, esp. in Internet Marketing related niches. If you bring to our notice, specific article directories that you want included, or directories that accept articles in your niche, we will try to include them, as early as possible. 25. Why should I provide details like my address and phone number in my profile? We don’t need these for registration to “1 Click Article Marketing”; however, most article directories want these kinds of info while registering. So, we only need these if you want our help in registering with any of the article directories. Ordering & Servicing Process: 26. I have created a ‘Free Account’. What next?    (a) Please login at: http://www.1clickarticlemarketing.com/articlemarketing/login.php and edit your profile ASAP. The info in your Profile is required to create your logins with article directories. (If you have already registered by making 'Zero Payment', that is paying nothing, you're ready to start using the services of '1 Click Article Marketing'. You have one month to decide if you'd like to use our 'paid services'.)    (b) Keep Your Account Active: A REFUNDABLE deposit of 1 cent (US$0.01) a month will be deducted from your PayPal account and credited to your own account with us. This is merely a token advance. This 1cent/month is NOT a fee and is fully refundable, unless and until you consume it by using our 'paid services'. This refundable 1 cent monthly payment helps us keep your account active.    (c) Order ‘Creation Of LogIn For ALL (500+) Article Directories’: This is the first step before you start submitting your article to 500+ article directories. Creating LogIns For ALL (500+) Article Directories’ is an extremely monotonous and time-consuming task. Until this is done, you cannot submit your articles to most directories. (This should take about 50 hours of your time, computed at about 6 minutes per login.) Most article marketers would be happy offloading this task to someone, but there’s no one other than us offering this service (to our knowledge). We’re glad to offer this as a service at a nominal fee of $99. However, if you have already created these ‘Log In’s by yourself, you don’t need to order this service.   (d) Order Article Marketing: You should have the required credits in your account for ordering any service. You can top up the balance in your account, with payments, either through PayPal or through Credit Card, after logging in, whenever you want to order our services. All your payments will be shown in your account automatically, which you can verify any time. Subsequently, all you need to do is to log in at http://www.1clickarticlemarketing.com/articlemarketing/login.php and start operating your account. You can order article submissions, pay for them, track the submission process, and check your account balance,... all by just logging in. 27. Will “1 Click Article Marketing” bring in traffic? Can you give me a guarantee, and a refund if I’m not satisfied? A lot depends on your niche, and the amount of input you give us. “1 Click Article Marketing” will bring in some traffic, and back links. However, we can’t give any guarantees, as there are several factors beyond our control. The best way you can judge this is by giving us an assignment and watching the results for yourself. Look at it this way. We’re giving you a $100 worth Free Trial, before you order. If you accept our Free Trial Offer, you’ll pay and order ONLY if you like what we do. So, your investment can be thought of as payment for what has already produced results for you, not your current order. Looking at it this way, you’re yet to pay for your current order. If at any time you believe we’re not delivering results, by your own yardsticks, stop ordering. Since you’ve not paid for it (when you look at it this way), you can never lose. Money Back guarantees are offered when the seller has taken the payment from you. Since what we offer is equivalent to taking the payment after you’re satisfied, isn’t it better then the best ‘Money Back’ guarantee? So, it’s really ‘Money Back Guarantee’ that I have repackaged as a Free Trial Offer. The additional advantage in my ‘Free Trial Offer’ offer is, you wouldn’t have to pay and seek refund; you just don’t pay if you’re not happy. Could it get any better? 28. Do you offer volume discounts? Yes, but packaged as Free Credits. Please see the Table below for details. FREE BONUS CREDITS for Frequent Users Of My Service: Free Credits Upon Availing Our Paid Services Amount of Credits Awarded Cumulative Credits Awarded Cumulative Credits As % Of Paid Credits For Every $500 $50 $50 10% For Every $2500 $250 $500 20% For Every $10000 $1000 $3000 30% 29. Do you have an Affiliate scheme? Right now, we only have an experimental affiliate scheme, exclusively for our customers who write to us asking for such a scheme. 30. Do you accept any mode of payment other than PayPal? Yes, we also accept Card and Check payment. When you pay through Check, our service will be delayed since we can start servicing you only upon realization of the payment. (We’ve been quite happy with PayPal for 3 years, though. You get the added protection from PayPal.)