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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Writing in this business is the lowest art form and requires the least amount of talent. Particularly since we aren't selling writing.
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I own plenty of sites and many of them have done quite well for me. Many of them have done very well for others. I own my own affiliate program, review site network, exclusive content paysites, affiliate referral sites, blogs, tubes and so on. However, what I do best is write. The sites I own are an extension of my ability to sell words. Search engines, recurring site members, site membership buyers, mainstream consumers, magazine readers etc.... appreciate text content when it is done well.
Saying a writer should only write for his own sites is akin to saying a shooter should never sell video content, or a site owner with traffic should never sell clicks. That's a fairly shortsighted business model. In the last few years I have sold more than one million words per year. If you had the ability to generate a massive amount of high quality text, you would build your own sites as I have and sell text to others as well. You'd also develop the ability to provide backlinks from quality sites and other useful services in social media or other aspects of web business that benefit from a nearly endless supply of high quality original text. You may think text is the low end of webmastering. Fortunately for me, Google and many others strongly disagree with you. That's not a statement made from arrogance, it's a statement made after seeing actual results on very high traffic sites over a long period of time.