How to find Web Writing Jobs

One of the best ways to make money working from home is to write material for the web,
but how do you find the work? Fortunately, when you work as a web writer there is no
shortage of job opportunities. It all depends on where you look and how muh researh
you are willing to do.
Web writing an break down into se!eral different ategories. "efore you begin looking
for work, you#ll ha!e to deide whether or not you want to get redit for your writing. If
you insist on byline, you may ha!e diffiulty finding a lot of paying jobs. "yline jobs are
out there if you look. Howe!er, the most money to be made is from working as a web
ghostwriter.
$any Wahms find suess with ghostwriting. When you work as a freelane ghostwriter
you pro!ide writing ser!ies for lients who will then use the work as their own.
%hostwriting as a wahm is a lurati!e opportunity, espeially when you fous on web
writing. For the most part, the Internet is a te&t and image based platform. 'ompanies and
indi!iduals who run websites onstantly need te&t to make their websites attrati!e to
!isitors. (ine writing is something that a lot of people would rather not do, this lea!es
plenty of opportunities for people who lo!e to write.
Web writing Wahms need only an Internet onnetion, e)mail address and word
proessing program to get started. *our own website is not neessary, but it adds a touh
of professionalism to your writing business. Howe!er, when you are first starting out you
an get plenty of work without ha!ing a website.
+here are se!eral different ategories of web writing. When you see the term ,ontent
writing- you will normally be pro!iding te&t for an e&isting or new website. *our writing
will ha!e to be engaging and lear for website !isitors. .rtile writers onentrate on
pro!iding artiles for websites, newsletters and blogs. %enerally, artiles for the web are
between /00 and 100 words eah. .ny more than that is diffiult for readers to sit through
while looking at a omputer sreen. 'opywriters are hallenged with putting readers in
the mood to buy. +hey write opy for Internet sales letters and marketing sites. 2book
ghostwriters pro!ide lients with full)length books on a !ariety of topis.
Wahms who write need to be professional in their online presene. +his means spell)
heking all writing, inluding e)mails to lients. It is also a good idea to get an e)mail
address that is speifially used for your writing. . personal e)mail address with a goofy
handle will make you appear unprofessional. *our first and last name or a ombination
thereof is a good hoie for your web writing e)mail address.
Writing for the Internet has a few differenes from writing essays in shool or writing for
print maga3ines. 4eaders online ha!e short attention spans, and you#ll need to keep your
sentenes short and your paragraphs lear.
+he other differene is the use of ,keywords- in ertain writing assignments. 5eywords
are words that ha!e been seleted by your lient to be used in the artile. +hese words
ha!e been seleted beause they are Internet searh terms and your lient wants their
website to show up for those searh terms. 5eyword artiles will re6uire you to use the
word or phrase a ertain number of times in the artile. (ometimes it an be diffiult to
use the words without making it sound fored. 2&periened web writers ha!e de!eloped
ways to make the keywords flow naturally into their artiles.
One you#!e gotten a few web writing assignments under your belt, you an deide what
type of web writing suits you best. *ou an find work on writing message boards,
freelane writing job sites and lassified ad sites like raigslist. "e sure to lea!e ontat
information and e&amples of your best written work.
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