- Authors need websites,
but the issue comes into how do you become more discoverable
without any real substance
beyond, "buy my buy books",
or, "a little bit about me."
Enter blog posts.
Now, before you start freaking out
and saying, "Oh gosh, here we go,
"he's telling me I got to do yet another thing."
It's okay, cool your engines.
What if,
what if you had someone do it for you?
Now, this is gonna require just a little bit of work,
but not much work.
In fact, that's why I hired five different article
and blog post writers on Fiverr
to do a little bit of advanced recon for you.
Some people you could potentially use
for your blogging needs,
so that way you can continue to do the things
that you enjoy doing while growing your website.
Full disclosure:
This video is sponsored by the fine folks over at Fiverr.
Listen folks, one of the best ways
to give back to this channel,
and also help support the sponsors is go over
and visit our sponsor link at dalelinks.com/fiverr,
and order any number of these services.
I'm gonna be naming some of them,
all the links are going to be down
in the description down below.
Stick around to the very end
because I'm gonna do the full reveal,
and some of my thoughts on each of these five writers
and I'm gonna select one,
only one of those writers
to put together a blog post
on this very video.
I know that's rather meadow, right?
They're going to write a blog post about
a video
about blog writers who write blog posts
about videos?
(squeak toy) - Oh boy.
Let's discuss the value of author websites.
Listen, it's mission critical
for you to have your own little space,
your own personal space that you can send your readers
to in the event, say for instance,
Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, or any
of those platforms decide they've had enough
of your shenanigans and they go ahead, pull the plug,
pull the carpet out from underneath you,
you at least have a website
that your readers can find you so that way they can interact
with you and follow you wherever that you go.
And let's face it.
Having a website makes you more discoverable
through search engines.
One of the big ones is Google,
but just doing the websites alone as they are
is just not enough.
That's where blog posts come into play.
It gets it to where you're more discoverable
because you have content that is indexed
into search engines.
So this is where it's kind of nice having some blog posts
and quite a few blog posts make it even more discoverable.
But what if you don't have the time
to be writing out blog posts?
Let's say you're just already having to write,
you're having to mark and promote,
you're having to edit,
you're having to manage all these things.
This is where I say, "hire a professional."
This is a nice thing that you can be able to do.
Now in previous videos, you've seen me hire
out different sellers over on Fiverr,
I've had my cover designs done,
I did marketing and promotion,
I had editing and proofreading done,
I've had formatting, you name it.
It's time for us to see if we can hire out some blog
post writers who can be able to do a good job
of representing my brand or
in some instances representing your brand appropriately.
So what I was going to go ahead and do is hire
out a blog post writer for each of those Fiverr videos.
So I was able to kind of put together some content.
So, this kind of shows you
all you need to do is maybe sit down,
shoot a very brief video,
or put together a simple outline for some
of these blog post writers, and send it on over to them.
It's kind of a good, Oh gosh,
it's it stacks more value though, having a
YouTube channel, not going to lie,
because you end up doing an article
based on a YouTube video,
So then you're able to embed that video
into the blog post article, which
of course helps out with what's called back linking
which makes you more discoverable, of course
for YouTube and for Google itself.
And then of course it blows up your website, right?
So let's get to ordering the gigs.
The very first thing is we're going to go ahead
and visit dalelinks.com/FIVERR
Now I went ahead and I searched
for a blog post writer, and I gotta admit,
that I tried out a couple of people that
didn't quite work out,
but I was able to narrow it down to five people.
What I'm actually looking for is clarity,
fully edited and readable blog posts.
Alright, it doesn't need to be fancy formatting,
but I need to get it to where it makes sense when I read it.
Also, it needs to be at least 1000 words with no fluff.
I recommend that if you're going to do a blog post
make it at least 500 words to as much as 1500 words.
Obviously, the more words that you have,
the more stuff that's going to be indexed
by the search engine, of course,
making you more discoverable.
I have found a thousand words is probably more
than sufficient with a lot of my blog posts.
What I'm not looking for here.
I'm not looking
for regurgitated content from my videos,
So I don't want someone just to simply download
the transcript for my video and then just put it on there
because obviously I could just do that myself,
and that just makes zero sense.
And if you want to go
through the hassle of recording a video,
getting a automated transcript from something like,
say YouTube, or even paying for Rev, more power to you.
But again, I'm trying to save myself a little bit
of time and heartache have somebody put together
something that's meaningful.
So from the lowest to the highest cost,
this is what I ended up purchasing.
And of course we're going to do a reveal right after this.
The very first gig was a Areesha.
Her basic gig was $5.
It was, "I will turn video, podcasts into catchy,
optimized blogs."
Up to 20 minutes of video,
topic, research, and content development.
Okay, I was sold.
Next one was Iraam.
She had a standard gig for $30.
"I will be an SEO article writer or blog post writer",
up to a thousand words, two focus keywords,
and topic research.
The next one was CortHoney.
He had a standard gig for $80.
"I'll be your technical SEO content writer"
up to a thousand words, three focus keywords,
topic research, references, and citations.
The next one was ForContentWorld.
It was a premium gig at $100.
This was one of the only premium ones I ended up selecting.
"I will write a 500 word blog or webpage,
SEO optimized, UK native" for the premium one,
You got a thousand words, four focus keywords,
topic research, references, and citations,
and last but not least, this one was recommended
by a couple of my friends here over at Fiverr,
they said, "Hey, go take a look at this guy,
we really do like him."
So, his name is Apascar and he has a
standard service for $165.
"I'll write a stellar article for your blog or website."
That would include 1200 words, three focus keywords,
topic, research, references and citations.
Let's go ahead and take a look at each one of these gigs.
Now keep in mind, if you just want to go ahead
and read those blog posts,
I will go ahead and put a link inside the description
down below to each one of those,
so you can see it.
I will let you know that
before I ended up launching some of these things.
I will clean up some of the text just a little bit more
because there's a little bit
of like, the control freak in me.
I want to make sure that it's fully edited
and represents my brand 100%, but,
for the most part, let's go ahead and take a look at this.
Okay, so I've already processed the five different gigs
from each of these blog writers.
I just went ahead and accepted them, sight unseen,
because I didn't want to volley these things back and forth.
So some of them are going to have just a few,
little indiscrepancies, and some typos and issues,
but for the most part I've already kind
of peeked and it looks pretty good.
So we're going to start out with the very first gig
with Areesha. She was the $5 gig.
Okay, so right away, Areesha just shows a lot
of flair in this one, for "Five Easy Ways To Make Money
on Fiverr With or Without Skills."
This was a fun video for me to originally do.
Um-
She went a little overboard on the text.
Honestly, I could have just done without the fancy text.
You know, we can probably just go in here
and switch everything to Times New Roman
if I wanted to here.
So that way it's just a little bit more clean.
There is probably just a little too much of this
this coloring of the text,
again, probably could have done
without the highlighting and such,
but overall going through the post,
she loosely followed my instructions,
which she ended up doing,
I can see where she grabbed the video,
she saw the transcripts,
she downloaded the transcripts
and tried to make, make the most of it.
I can see there's just some issues with wording.
So, for instance, I know I babble,
and you can already see in a video,
"And I actually, it was really nice becoming a seller."
I found quite a few of those small
indiscrepancies in here, you could see she threw in
a couple of little images.
I'm not sure what the licensing is on some of these images.
So, I'm not sure that I'm comfortable
in using these on my blog posts, to be honest with you.
So the thing that also threw me off was at the very end
"THANK YOU FOR READING MY BLOG, BYEE."
No.
That's a hard no,
that might work for a younger generation,
but for my generation, definitely not.
But for $5, not too bad.
The next one was done by Iraam and she ran $30.
She did the "I Purchased 5 Book Marketing Services
on Fiverr... And This Happened."
This was a pleasant surprise,
and she actually inserted some notes here
to where I can slip in some links.
She recommended, you know,
a few different areas to kind of do some inbound
and outbound links, which is by the way,
a great way to build search engine optimization
for your blog posts articles
you could put in about two inbound
or two outbound, and/or,
then you will definitely increase your likelihood
of being discovered.
So overall though, this was pretty good.
I could see, again,
like this was one that they probably used the transcript,
but honestly, painted a bit outside the lines.
I enjoyed this one so much more than the first gig,
but for 1300 words, I'd say this is
well done, Iraam.
I would say, breath of fresh air, two big thumbs up.
Let's get on over to the third gig.
This is the one where I hired 10 designers
on Fiverr to do the same cover.
This is done by CortHoney,
he ran about $80 for the gig.
Not bad. It's a little bit more
expensive than the last one,
I mean, over two times as much, nearly three times as much
but, I was willing to give it a shot.
And I'm going to tell you
this was great. (children cheering)
I mean, he had to go through
and cover 10 designs, and he really went
and put extra details that I didn't even mention
in the video.
It was a keen eye for detail.
You can tell that CortHoney went through
and took his time, and really chronicled the entire process.
There's probably one nitpicky-thing I have in here,
and I think whereas, where he referred to me as the client.
So, this inclusion prevents future issues
when the client uses the commission work
for commercial purposes,
again, it was supposed to be kind of more personalized,
most likely I'll fix it when I go on in there,
honestly, Cort, you did a fantastic job.
If I could give three thumbs up, I would,
but we're going to give you two thumbs up,
and three banana stickers,
fantastic work
for $80 and about 1200 words,
you can't beat that with a stick.
I love it.
This next one is a UK based writer,
and comes at a bit more of a premium.
His name is ForTheContentWorld, all one word,
and his price was a bit higher.
This was at $100.
Okay, so take a deep breath,
because when I went in here, this
was magnificent.
The formatting, he put in a meta-description.
Nobody else before this did a meta-description,
this is an experienced blog writer.
This is a person who knows what it takes.
You even see, he put in keywords,
keywords, keywords, keywords,
he highlighted all the keywords that he put into this.
This is awesome, because he shows me,
Hey, I've got all these keywords that are going to
help you get indexed by search engines.
So that was huge.
This was a post, kind of like the last one but even better
in that you could tell he used the video,
but he went into a deep dive onto this one,
this one probably took the longest
of all the gigs to fulfill,
but for good reason, because when I went and read this,
it didn't sound like me speaking.
Alright, it didn't sound rigid,
it made sense, it was very professional,
of all of the gigs so far,
I really enjoyed ForTheContentWorld.
Well done, at about 1257. He was not supposed
to do 1,257-
Oh yeah, and by the way, um,
five thumbs up, my video editor
can probably do five thumbs on the screen, right?
And we're going to go five banana stickers.
Well done.
This last gig was done by Apascar,
again, some good friends over at Fiverr
actually recommended him and I wasn't disappointed,
but for 165 bucks I was a little bit hesitant,
because I'm like, "Oh my gosh I spent
even less than that on some of these other gigs,
and I got a great return."
He actually did the blog post for our pilot episode
of Book Rescue, where we actually helped
an author out inside the community.
So this one, really, I couldn't spare an expense
because this was a big passion project of mine.
So a blog post that was inferior
was not going to work out.
So this is why I really trusted my friends
over Fiverr on this one.
'Cause I was like,
"Okay, let's make sure this works."
So, he changed up the name of this to
"How One Independent Author
Supercharged His Marketing Work."
I am going to tell you this right now,
again, kind of like the last one,
ForTheContentWorld and the one before that
CortHoney, this was magnificent,
great formatting.
Didn't go all over the place,
didn't do it a bunch of colored writing
or anything else like this.
He put in a couple links, inbound and outbound,
I kind of liked this.
He built out a story that really shared so much
within that Book Rescue episode.
And, I just got to tell you this
this gives me the feels, just reading this.
So Apascar,
though he runs at a bit of a higher premium about $165,
I really, truly, do appreciate that.
At about 1200 words, he made sure that he tapped
that emotion, that he really brought
the feels on this one.
So, this one was well done.
Again, the links are inside the description
down below for each of the sellers
and the respective blog posts, and also,
find out which blog post writer I prefer the most
out of all of the five of them.
You could actually take a look at that
inside this link here to the specific blog post.
And also, while we're at it,
I want you to take a look at this very next video.
I hired 10 designers for the same cover.
Find out what happens,
and then YouTube recommends you take a look at this.
You got a few choices,
I'll see you in any one of them.