Spent $800 on a content mill agency and got back articles that read like robots wrote them

Signed up with WriteFast Solutions back in March after their sales guy promised 'premium quality at budget prices'. First batch of 10 blog posts came back and every single one had the same stale intro: 'In today's digital landscape...'. I asked for revisions three times and they just recycled the same fluff. The 'senior editor' they assigned couldn't even name a single industry blog I follow. Lost a client because their SEO rankings dropped from page 1 to page 4 after I published that junk. Has anyone found a content agency that actually hires writers who know your niche?

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jordan30527d ago

Man, people really overreact to bad content. Yeah it sucks to drop $800 and get garbage back, but losing a whole client over a few blog posts? Sounds like maybe your client was already looking for a way out. Those companies are all the same anyway, they hire cheap writers who copy each other's homework. I tried one once and got a 'top 10 tips' list where tip #5 was literally 'make sure your content is good quality'.

park.wyatt27d ago

Tip #5 being "make sure it's good" is actually more honest than most advice lists I've seen.

leobrown27d ago

Hate to agree with you @jordan305, but you're probably right. Clients don't just bail over one bad batch of content... there's usually more going on behind the scenes. Those cheap content mills are the worst though, they recycle the same generic advice over and over. You pay for "custom" writing and get stuff that reads like it was spit out by a bot. At least you only wasted money on one try, some folks keep going back to those places and wondering why their results stink.