Hi Guys, Being in the content game it is easy to see why they have crept their prices up.  Freelancers are starting to push their pricing up even in the emerging economies where a lot of their writers come from.  I am not one to normally stick up for the competition but they have had pricing artificially low for a couple of years now.  But its horses for courses when 1 star rating is legiblethey do really lay out what you can expect from that sort of price point.  We too had a small price rise in January which I really didn't want to do but the current market is forcing peoples hands.

One question I would rise from the guys talking about spinning, does anyone agree with me that this latest algo is aimed at spunn content as I cant see how they an ignore that but target guys like Demand Media?  Your opinions gratefully received.

Hi I am Dave from Purecontent.  Hope you are all well.  Im with JasonD good to see some old names in here.  Hope I can be useful in here.

The New AOL structure has been re evaluated now they have looked at their page view pay back rates.  They have doubled from the model they were working on last year.

We have just tried working out how long it takes content to drop from free blogs if you delete them.  It cleans out pretty quickly and re passes a copyscape check within weeks.  Whether you would be happy to use it I think is down to the nature of the content.  Gaming, Adult wouldnt be so but other topics in broad safe verticals I cant see the problem.