I’m not a fan of spam through this site’s contact page, and I become even more aggravated when I receive the same spam message twice within 3 days, as was the case with messages received from TheArticleFactory.com
Both messages contained the exact same message:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you come visit us at the Article Factory. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article!
The subject lines between the two spam contacts were slightly different with one labeled “Articles for $1” and one titled “$1 Articles”
Both messages came from the same email address: articlewriters35@yahoo.com with one coming from “Peter” and one coming from “Ralph”.
Although I would rarely, if ever, patronize a company that uses my contact form for spam purposes, I did go to The Article Factory to check out the site and was not impressed.
I guess you get what you pay for. $1 an article, even with a 5 article minimum purchase, is extremely cheap and the lack of quality in their sample articles illustrates exactly why. Some articles are short and some have lousy grammar. I tend to butcher grammar myself, but I’m not trying to sell you articles, even if they are only a buck a piece. 😉
Their FAQ is pretty straightforward but does raise a few questions.
Q: Why is it 1 keyword per 5 articles?
A: That’s because our main business is providing tons of content in bulk. Our articles are the lowest price online. You can make separate orders for more keywords. All articles will be random content on the same keyword.
So, in reality, you’re ordering 5 articles for $1 each. There’s certainly nothing wrong with having a minimum order, but again I see some serious questions as far as article quality goes.
FYI, “tons of content in bulk” doesn’t necessarily translate to quality content, nor does it necessarily translate to quality traffic or conversions.
Q: Whats a good keyword??
A: Its very important to choose your keywords wisely. We take your keyword and provide you different articles on the same subject. Your keywords should be short 1 or 2 word keywords. PLEASE NO LONG TAIL KEYWORDS OR “RARE NICHE” KEYWORDS! GIVE US COMMON KEYWORDS!
If a long Tail keyword is provided we withhold the right to shorten it to provide better content
Choose a good keyword like this:
Good Keyword: HGC Diet
Good Keyword: Wedding Planner
Not like this:
Bad Keyword: HGC Diets before my wedding
Bad Keyword: Wedding planners in Italy
Why do they restrict clients to keywords that aren’t long tail? I’d guess that it is because there would be far too much effort and research required to create articles which could be passed off as “quality”
Long tail keywords are actually much easier to rank for and can drive much more targeted traffic, especially for those of us in the affiliate marketing niche.
Let’s take for example The Article Factory’s versions of “good keyword” HGC Diet and “bad keyword” HGC Diets before my wedding.
Take a minute to do a search on both keywords and see the results and which sites you would be competing against. Like most people, I searched in Google.
Using the shorter HGC Diet keyword, you are going up against some heavyweights like WebMD, Doctor Oz, Yahoo, and the Mayo Clinic. Unless your site is already pretty popular, this is going to be much more of an uphill battle than if you used the bad long tail keyword, which doesn’t have quite the same stiff competition.
Even if it’s only $1 per article, wasted money is still wasted money. 😉 If you want to outsource article writing, you’d most likely be better off hiring a freelancer for a little more money and targeting more reasonable keywords to rank for.
The Article Factory states that its articles are
perfect for link building or filler for your websites
Filler, sure. But low quality, generic articles won’t be linked to by legitimate sites. Now, if you’re a blackhat running PBNs(Private Blog Networks), perhaps investing in hundreds or thousands of these types of articles might be worth looking into.
Final Thoughts
Spamming through contact forms soliciting clients is a pretty lowbrow form of marketing your services. If you’re great at content, wouldn’t it make sense that you could rank well enough by writing quality content to not need to go this route.
Feel free to read the sample articles at The Article Factory and decide for yourself just how “quality” the articles appear to be.
Trying to go the cheap and easy route rarely leads to success, and that’s exactly what buying articles from there would be attempting to do.
Although I can’t seriously recommend them, their articles are cheap enough for most people to test them out and see if anything comes of it.
In the long run, however, you’d be better off learning how to create your own content(maybe even using spam for the subject matter ;)) or outsourcing to a better quality site.
As for The Article Factory: spammers in my opinion, not necessarily scammers although some might feel otherwise about a site that spams in order to sell low quality, cheap content.
Update 3/28/18 – The spamming of my contact form continues, lol.
Sent 6/10/17:
From: Linda <articlewriters353@yahoo.com>
Subject: Dollar ArticlesMessage Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you come visit us at the Article Factory. Do you want more traffic and higher rankings in Google? Well you need more content!! We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 6/12/17:
From: Robert <articlewriters35@yahoo.com>
Subject: Articles for $1Message Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you come visit us at the Article Factory. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 7/12/17:
From: Robert Frost <articlewriters35@yahoo.com>
Subject: $1 ArticlesMessage Body:
Quality American Handwritten Articles for your website! *Lowest Prices Online! Fast Delivery! Any Niche!! 100 Unique! Articles from $1 thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 7/17/17:
From: Linda <articlewritersnow@yahoo.com>
Subject: Content writer $1Message Body:
Hi, Are you looking for an article writer? We have a professional team of writers that can write on any subject. We are also fast and deliver all articles within 12-24 hours. Google loves content, and will reward you with more traffic,more traffic means more sales! We have a special this week for $1 per article. Feel free to try a small package to test our service, I’m sure you will be happy with our work. Thank you thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 8/27/17:
From: Laura Stone <articlewriters325@yahoo.com>
Subject: Articles for $1Message Body:
Quality American Handwritten Articles for your website! *Lowest Prices Online! Fast Delivery! Any Niche!! 100 Unique! Articles from $1 thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 8/28/17:
From: Stan <articlewriters35@yahoo.com>
Subject: $1 ArticlesMessage Body:
Quality American Handwritten Articles for your website! *Lowest Prices Online! Fast Delivery! Any Niche!! 100 Unique! Articles from $1 thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 9/24/17:
From: Robert <articlewriters33@yahoo.com>
Subject: $1 ArticlesMessage Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you come visit us at the Article Factory. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 10/8/17:
From: Steve <articlewriters23@yahoo.com>
Subject: Need a writer?Message Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 10/16/17:
From: Linda <articlewriters33@yahoo.com>
Subject: We are writersMessage Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 11/5/17:
From: Susan <articlewriters13@yahoo.com>
Subject: Need Articles?Message Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 1/1/18:
From: Robert <socialexpert25@yahoo.com>
Subject: Happy HolidaysMessage Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 1/1/18:
From: Jason <socialexpert25@yahoo.com>
Subject: $1 ArticlesMessage Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 1/15/18:
From: Cheryll <Kimball66537@yahoo.com>
Subject: Need a writer?Message Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 1/28/18:
From: Helga <Premo31992@yahoo.com>
Subject: We are writersMessage Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 2/13/18:
From: Lou <articlewriters35@yahoo.com>
Subject: Articles for $1Message Body:
Quality American Handwritten Articles for your website! *Lowest Prices Online! Fast Delivery! Any Niche!! 100 Unique! Articles from $1 http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 3/1/18:
From: Bok <Salada57691@yahoo.com>Subject: Need a writer?Message Body:Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 3/4/18:
From: Lori <Negrisor20312@yahoo.com>Subject: Articles for $1Message Body:Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 3/15/18:
From: Tammi <Repinski8318@yahoo.com>
Subject: $1 ArticlesMessage Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
Sent 3/28/18:
From: Bernadette <Riess24121@yahoo.com>
Subject: Articles for $1Message Body:
Hi, If you need articles for your website make sure you let us know. We have an excellent team of writers and we always deliver fast usually within hours. And we have a special right now for you to try out our service for only $1 an article! http://www.thearticlefactory.com/
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16 Comments on "TheArticleFactory.com: spam, scam, or what?"
I ordered from there, they were not to bad for the price, they do at least deliver.
Thanks for the comment and feedback Jess.
I didn’t have much doubt they would deliver.
“Not too bad for the price” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement, but seems to go along with their articles being more about content for content’s sake instead of anything actually decent, interesting, or really uniqeu.
Thanks again and best wishes.
“actually decent, interesting, or really uniqeu” Sounds like your looking for high quality articles and expect that for $1. Then turn around and talk bad about them. So I guess your original article isn’t very fair and biased itself
Without a doubt, the OP is definitely biased… against contact form spammers. In case you missed it in that original post, I wasn’t “looking for” anything. They’ve spammed my contact form multiple times. That’s annoying. Hell, I didn’t even advise people to avoid them.
Pretty much agree with you Mike. Not exactly quality samples.
And I hate contact form spammers.
Thanks for the feedback.
I ordered from them, its no bad for the price, seems you are looking for Harvard grad content for $1, not gonna happen.
Not quite Larry. As I mentioned in my other reply to you, they found(spammed) me. But their front page claims “QUALITY ARTICLES FOR $1”.
If “not bad for the price” is your opinion of quality, so be it.
So im guessing you DO expect high quality articles for only $1? Are you a blogger?
No Samantha, I don’t. Never said I did. However, I’m not the one that puts “QUALITY ARTICLES FOR $1” on the front page of my website, nor do I spam contact forms.
I don’t blog enough to be a blogger yet. 😉
Don’t waste your money… they have no team of writers…. the so called articles are just words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs that are skimmed from other peoples web sites.
The ‘content’ of any article make no sense and is basically rubbish.
Thanks for the feedback Paul.
My take is that they do have a “team”, so to speak, but one that is not comprised of SEO people and is filled with some writers who haven’t quite grasped the ridiculousness that is English grammar.
On a side note, they continue to spam my contact form, lol.
Thanks for sharing your experience Moni.
Your experience is pretty much what I expected.
Are they even good enough for you to bother rewriting them to make them usable?
Thanks again and best wishes to you.
Thanks for this great article Chris and the feedback from everyone.
I almost fell for it. You’ve been very helpful.
You’re welcome Haily. Just sharing some thoughts and opinions.
Thanks for dropping by and best wishes. 🙂