Local content is read by locals, and they react by critiquing it just as they would an article relating to their job. One wrong ally, one closed business in the spring, and the article stops being about your local area.
The writer either finds the place first hand or does the research: they check opening times, find the actual name of the council, find the name of the road that everyone calls something different to the sign.
Local pages are the site of the biggest challenge of scale vs quality. A company with forty locations wants (and expects) to have forty pages, each with its respective branch’s name swapped in. Search engines have been demoting that construction for years, and residents noticed that construction before search engines.
Ask for an article about a town and you get a plausible town. Talk about streets that don’t intersect. Throw in a famous landmark relocating to the opposite side of a river. Then, mention restaurants that closed or never opened. The locals will know. The target audience was locals, and they will recognize the errors.
Writers write about places they know. As much as possible, every detail is checked. Businesses, hours and street plans are checked the week of writing. A local article outdates almost everything we produce, so writers have to be speedy.
They add context that local search listing pages can’t have. In the case of multi-location businesses, they also reduce duplication. Because of the search engines, forty unique pages are the only version of this that consistently works.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical local article | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short local piece | 500 | $50 | $0.50 | $50.50 |
| Standard local article | 900 | $90 | $0.90 | $90.90 |
| Area guide | 1,600 | $160 | $1.60 | $161.60 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Every draft goes through an editor, then through several AI detectors and a plagiarism check. Anything that does not come back clean is revised or reassigned. You get the reports with the delivery email.
What the piece is for, who reads it, roughly how long it should be, and anything it must include or avoid. Links to your existing material help. If you are unsure, send what you have and the writer will come back with questions.
Where we say so, sometimes and where we do we say so. In the places where we do not, we appoint a writer to verify everything by phone and public record as opposed to relying on memory, and we tell you which of the two you are receiving before you place your order.
No, that’s how you order pages. We conduct separate research for each page so the details will vary depending on the pages’ places. We prefer you let us know early on so we can keep a smaller writing group for the set so we can have consistency in the tone.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
We’ve been outsourcing blog posts for two years and need to rewrite every intro, but this one didn’t need anything. This one went directly to our editor. The writer noticed something the rest of us and probably the past writers missed, and that is a reference to “members” in an older post, which I attached to this brief. We swear by “members” and never say “customers.”
Most writers have their own way of talking. Each of the twelve writers here has their distinct voice. This is one of the first things I noticed about your publication. I’d guess this creates a lot of overlap among the writers and likely involves some good editing. Your style guide is fourteen pages. I’m sure they read it all.
Savings explainers like to use analogies, and this one shows us a table with two worked examples. Our compliance reviewer passed it with zero comments for the first time in the four years I have been here. This must be a first for them also. (I have never actually read a savings explainer.)
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
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Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
Content at ScaleAI detection
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