The world is full of knowledge and facts and endless information and eternal life experiences. I have a great thirst for knowledge and I love to learn new things and being a ghost writer has certainly helped feed into that. I wasn't always quite this thirsty though. I remember groaning along with everyone else when I was assigned my first research paper in high school. The idea of looking through several books and gleaning just the right facts from them did not appeal to me. Once I started though I quickly realized that I had a definite knack for it. My favorite English teacher, Derek Hulse, helped me sort out what was important information and what wasn't when it came to reviewing and grading my first research paper. The assistance and insight he gave me has been invaluable in my life and I am grateful that I was fortunate enough to be taught by him and be counted among his friends. My knack for research is a very handy thing as a ghost writer. I write about anything and everything and as I'm not omnipotent, that takes some information gathering on my part. I find a topic, read what the client wants and if it appeals to me, I accept the assignment and start writing. When I'm focused and the information is easy to find I can write a 500 word article in a half hour. If it's a topic I already know about and love it might take me 15 minutes. For an article that requires several different resources for information, the project time can be an hour or more. All assignments have a deadline far longer than I usually require and I strive to complete them as quickly and accurately as possible. As a ghost writer I've looked at and usually not accepted assignments that require 10 keywords used two to three times in a 200-300 word article. This is someone's attempt at using SEO (search engine optimization) to get their content found but there's a very large problem with this technique. Such a high density of required keywords makes an article practically unreadable. There can be very little true, important, sensible content in an article made up almost entirely of keywords. People want to read something interesting, they don't want fluff stuffed with SEO words. Perhaps these types of articles work in improving a website's ability to be found, but if the site doesn't properly explain its purpose, traffic to it will eventually diminish. There's nothing wrong with reeling people in as long as there's something worthwhile at the destination. In my endless research gathering for both professional and personal interests, I have encountered a fair share of online articles that are so filled with typos and grammatical errors I can't leave the page fast enough. I do not profess to be perfect, far from it, but I know what a readable well-written article looks like and what a keyword-stuffed, fluff article looks like. Having content on a website is obviously important but it's even more important that it be relevant and accurate. I strive to deliver well-written articles to all my clients and I don't accept a topic unless I feel I can do it justice. I've yet to have an article rejected so I must be doing something right!
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