It all started a year ago when I figured out on paper how I was going to make a fortune with AdSense by writing articles.
About a week into writing on subjects such as teeth whitening, classic car insurance, and colon cleansing, I knew one thing… I hated writing articles.
I’ve spent this past year doing everything I can to avoid writing articles on subjects I care nothing about.
So when I started the Content Spooling Network last February (which itself was a manifestation of my desire to do anything but actually write an article), I knew that to keep it useful for myself and anyone else like me, there had to be a ghostwriting component built in.
Hiring and managing a staff of ghostwriters was out of the question. So I turned to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. I figured if I could modularize the process enough, and provide extensive automated and turk-driven reviews of all the content, it could work.
Of course it was a no-brainer when it came to using Mechanical Turk for other CSN operations such as reviewing websites for acceptance, but writing a quality article was a bit risky.
Well, I’m happy to report that Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has been performing for us reliably for the past 6 months. It was a bit shaky at first as we constantly tweaked our process to achieve the best results.
Now I can outsource my article writing when I’m not feeling up to the task. And if I feel up to the task of writing, but not rewriting (Articles must be paraphrased into multiple versions to be submitted through CSN so we can publish a unique version of your article to each distribution point.), I will be able to outsource that as well.
As stated in the previous post, on Friday August 24, 2007 I’ll be releasing a new benefit to Content Spooling Network members… Article Cash.
Article Cash can be used within CSN to utilize our interface into Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for ghostwriting original articles and rewriting articles. These articles can then be submitted through CSN to member sites and external article directories.
Tomorrow I’ll answer the question, “Why not just use mechanical turk myself instead of going through your service?”
- Chris