Outsource article writing best practices? How to avoid plagiarism? How to audit an article writer?

I don't really disagree with this at all ... but at the same time, it always helps to bear in mind, in "How to employ article-writers" discussions here, that different people have very different ideas about what an "article" is, according to how they plan to use it.

To some people, an article is simply a "chunk of unique, keyword-rich text to which a backlink can be attached". Those article-buyers don't actually need a writer at all: they just need someone who can assemble chunks of unique, keyword-rich text to which backlinks can be attached.

It doesn't actually help their businesses, of course, but they don't know that, and there is a market for such "products". It's a constantly-changing market, because the businesses of people buying those "articles" don't survive for the long-term, which also means that the article-suppliers (let's not call them "writers"?) for those products are inevitably the ones continually advertising for new customers, on Fiverr or wherever, because the ones they have don't last!

From the perspective of article-writers (which I used to be, myself, at one time), customers whose primary concern is "uniqueness as far as Google's concerned", rather than quality and the ability to interest, target and qualify potential customers, are not much of an asset.

In all the time that I was selling article-writing services, I never once mentioned "uniqueness" or "Copyscape" at all ... and neither did my clients.

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