I blogged previously about articles & how important they were becoming in the fight to improve natural search engine rankings http://www.freshwebz.co.uk/blog/?p=25.

I decided to use a local, UK based company I found, Maa Designs, that have a very professional looking website & offered to write 400 word articles at a cost of £5 each. I paid half the cost up front for the articles & waited to see what turned up.

Oh dear!

Their website claims to produce “High quality, readable and unique web content” & “professionally written, keyword-rich, up-to-date website content that draw visitor attention“. However, the articles appear to have been written by someone whose grasp of the English language & grammar is not great!!! /

The content provided does not flow and there are spelling mistakes & grammatical errors despite their claim “We submit the articles to your website only after checking for grammatical errors, clarity, spelling mistakes and consistency“. I guess this is just another example of you get what you pay for!

The article supplied for Cashback Shopper is reproduced below as an example of the work offered! I think I will be withholding the other half of their payment!

Maine text:

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