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Comparison

Three ways to fill an article order, side by side

Automatic, your own instructions, your own finished article. The choice decides how much of the anchor and the surrounding sentence is yours.

ArticlesLander editorial team · Updated 2026-10-29

The three modes in one table

Control is about your anchor and its sentence, not about the host site.
	Automatic	Your instructions	Finished article
You supply	Target URL and keyword	A prompt or brief	The full text
Who writes	The article is written automatically	Written automatically from your brief	You
Control over anchor	Low	Medium to high	Full
Control over position	None	Partial	Full
Effort for you	Minutes	Twenty minutes for a good brief	Hours
Fits best	Many similar hosts, loose wording	A campaign with a set angle	A showcase placement

An anchor text example for each

The sample wording is invented for a fictional bakery supplier, to show how each mode handles it.

Automatic

Input: URL of the sourdough starter page, keyword "sourdough starter". Expect an anchor close to that keyword in a general article about baking at home.

Your instructions

Input: a brief asking for the anchor "how to feed a starter" in a paragraph about weekly care. The writer follows the line literally.

Finished article

Input: your 1,000-word piece with the phrase "our feeding schedule" placed after the second heading. What you wrote is what runs.

How to choose without overthinking

Use automatic when you are testing hosts and the anchor wording barely matters. It is fast.

Switch early. Move to instructions as soon as a campaign has a point of view. A brief of nine lines turns generic output into text that fits your page. The decision tree tells you what to ask for. Placements are permanent, so wording you dislike stays for good.

Pick the finished article for the two or three placements that you would show a client. It costs hours. It also removes the guesswork. It also puts the responsibility for accuracy fully on you.

Whichever mode you pick, the basket review is the last point where you can change it. After payment the order is on its way.

A last point on time. The automatic route suits quick tests of hosts, a finished article may take a content team a full working day, and a brief sits in between at roughly the length of a long email.

Check the order status afterwards. Every placement appears under ordered links, usually live about 24 hours after payment.

Basket review is the checkpoint

Adding a row charges nothing. Open the basket, read each target URL and mode, and drop any row where you cannot say in one sentence why the link belongs there.

Order-mode questions

Can I mix modes in one basket?

Yes. The content mode is set per order, so one basket can hold an automatic row for a test host and a finished article for the placement you care about most. Review the basket to see them together before you pay.

Does the finished-article route cost more?

Price follows the donor domain, from $1 up to about $500 per link, not the mode. What changes is your time. A longer article you write costs hours, while the automatic route takes minutes.

Which mode suits an AI agent?

An agent can browse donors and fill the basket over MCP or the REST API, and paying stays a human step. Give it the nine-line brief so its picks match your anchor plan from the ratio example.

Our read

Instructions are the sweet spot

For most content marketers a clear brief gets most of the control for a fraction of the effort. Save finished articles for placements where every word counts.

Test with automatic
Scale with instructions
Showcase with finished articles