{"id":244,"date":"2006-03-06T22:50:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T03:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=244"},"modified":"2019-12-28T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:58:19","slug":"you-get-what-youre-paid-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/you-get-what-youre-paid-for\/","title":{"rendered":"You get what you&#8217;re paid for ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Gomes, technology columnist for the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, does a bit of investigative journalism on one of the more charming opportunities brought to us via the world wide web.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a sarcastic &#8220;charming&#8221; btw.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity: writers wanted. &#8220;To generate original content for websites. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why? So the sites will rank high on search engines, earning ad dollars for their owners.<\/p>\n<p>Gomes&#8217; article focuses on the clutter aspect. &#8220;Legitimate information . . . risks being crowded out by junky, spammy imitations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What bothers me a lot more is that these people are scamming writers. The guy Gomes talked to, for instance, offers $100 for fifty 500-word articles. Cheap s.o.b.<\/p>\n<p>25,000 words later &#8212; I bet you&#8217;d never even see your money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Gomes, technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, does a bit of investigative journalism on one of the more charming opportunities brought to us via the world wide web. That&#8217;s a sarcastic &#8220;charming&#8221; btw. The opportunity: writers wanted. &#8220;To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/you-get-what-youre-paid-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[779,778,777,776,775,241],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-lee-gomes","tag-scams","tag-website-writing-for-hire","tag-writer-compensation","tag-writer-pay","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}