My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
(Anonymous) How do you differentiate a quality article from a quantity article?
This is an interesting question because how do you define a “good quality” article and why would you strive to create a bad one?
When I think of “Quality Article”, I am referring to an article that its purpose is to entice readers, create followers, and provide the reader unbelievable content. I usually personally write these articles or I may pay a well-established (usually pricey) writer to do it for me. These types of articles I usually put on my own websites as well as places where my name and my authority may be recognized (like eZineArticles, Twitter, Facebook, etc.).
Now the “Quantity Article” is usually done for the sole purpose of creating backlinks. These DO need to be readible and usually the quality is not too bad. Still, I usually would pay a lower priced author to write these types of articles and I may even go the extra step of “spinning” the article. The can produce a lot of unique articles (and hopefully good backlinks) without the cost.
In fact, I usually have the “Quantity Articles” linking back to the “Quality Articles”, among other things. It is just good SEO and Social Media Practice.
cheers…matt
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Despite SEO reasons, I still believe that quality articles are better than quantity.
You owe it to your readers to provide them with quality articles first and foremost. I still believe that having quality articles would create your ultimate aim of getting back links in the long run. Quality articles does not have to be long, right? Its similar to “quotes” - they’re short, but mean a lot. 
I am a writer and I hate it when clients asks me to create articles pronto - and thus quality suffers. As a writer, its not just the pay. Its the work you’ve done! Despite of not getting the accolades, because clients pose of course as the writer, the satisfaction that what you’ve written makes sense and is a quality is payment enough for all the researches and thinking you’ve done.
Perhaps I won’t get rich writing, huh? LOL!
Just my two cents worth.
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March 14th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Your point is well taken. Quality is extremely important and most effective. Still, the way that algorithms work online, quantity is a factor…and so is duplicate content. I built a lot of my online business based solely on QUALITY articles, but I was able to take it to the “next level” with I incorporated a large quantity of articles on top of it, too. I do believe that you NEED the quality articles to effectively use quantity articles, but it won’t work the other way around.
If you are just starting, FOCUS ON QUALITY. It will work and you will get rankings and a good social following for it. Then, you can get a little more “gray hat” and beef up the popularity of THOSE articles to make them even stronger.
Like you, my two cents…cheers…matt
March 17th, 2010 at 3:05 pm