Online Writing, Editing, and Proofreading Jobs
You can take two different approaches to starting an online writing career. You can submit your content to ad-revenue share writing sites or pursue a more traditional freelance writing career where you get paid per assignment.
If you’re pursuing the revenue sharing route, then it may help to learn a bit of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). The reason for this is that you want your articles to get as much publicity as possible.
The more views that your article gets the more you’re likely to earn. You don’t have to become an SEO expert, especially since you’re not working on your own website, but a little bit of knowledge can go a long way.
Below you will find a list of revenue share writing sites, freelance writing websites, and online companies that’ll pay you for proofreading & editing work.
Revenue Share Writing Jobs:
If you decide to go the more traditional route then you don’t have to worry about anything other than submitting correctly written assignments. Before you start bidding on freelance writing jobs you should prepare a few things.
The most important thing to have is several examples of your writing. Choose your best pieces and try to have examples that fit the type of writing that your new employer is looking for.
You should also have a list of referrals that you can show employers to help you land the more desirable jobs. A lot of the freelance websites allow clients to rate freelancers so you can refer potential employers directly to your profile, provided that you have great reviews.
Traditional Fee-Based Freelance Writing Jobs:
Work at Home Editing and Proofreading Jobs:
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May 11th, 2012 at 12:44 am
You need to check your links. One jumps out immediately: writtingcareer.com is misspelled. Other than that, good article, putting it to use now. :^)
April 10th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
I recently lost my job due to an illness and this site has been a blessing. There are so many “sites” promising you can work from home and offer nothing but promises. I need to find work soon to support my family…if anyone knows of more Legitimate sites where one can really work from home, I’d be grateful.
Thank you kindly for your time!
March 19th, 2012 at 11:53 am
Another good site that these forums seem to miss is cracked.com. They’re a mainly article based comedy website – you sign up, leave a post saying your interested and they update your profile so that you can get through to their workshop area where you put your idea forwards and workshop with other writers and the cracked editors. Once the editors clear your article, I think you get paid a fixed amount for the article upfront and then ad revenue based on how many hits you get. It’s a legit site that you can make a lot of money from and gets a lot of traffic, but you do need quality work.
February 15th, 2012 at 2:43 am
Thank you for all the information provided. God bless!
Here I would like to mention one more website which pays us for writing stuff. Its http://www.iwriter.com/
Basically we start as Standard writers where a 500 words article fetches us $2.43 and so on.. We are rated by the requester for every article we write. When we cross certain number of articles and maintain good ratings we are promoted to Premium writers position where the same 500 words article can fetch us $4.05 and so on..
Saras
January 29th, 2012 at 10:25 am
As a writer for several sites in the past and one or two currently, I can warn others that many ad sharing sites that uses Google Ad Sense can drain your time and talent without giving you anything but pennies back, no matter how good you are. If you like writing as a hobby, then you will enjoy the exposure. If you are looking for an income, save your time. Speaking of income, there is one site that can produce one for you in the writing arena, and that is Textbroker.com. They pay per article, upfront. You can make a lot or a little, depending on the quality of your writing. You must pass a test to get qualified, and most articles of 500 words will bring around $7.00, give or take. You choose the article from a choice of hundreds that are being requested by bloggers and companies. Your money goes right into your Paypal account, with a $10.00 minimum for deposit. I have done this for a long time and have made good money. Someone can do this full time for a fair income from home.
December 31st, 2011 at 4:38 am
I’ve been researching a lot of different virtual assistance jobs. And I notice that all the blogs and virtual assistance website don’t have guidance for those who have little to no experience in those fields. Having said that, I feel that I’m stuck in a rock and a hard place. Where should one go to get experience working in these fields? As a college student, my time of studying, going to school and applying to different job(s) and volunteering center(s), online and offline it very important. Just like other before and after me, I enjoy writing and gaining experiences through working for another person/ website/ company.
Eric says:
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:08 am
Hey Jenise, I understand your concern!
A friend of mine was in your situation, what he did was he emailed one of his idols and asked if he could help him out.. for FREE.
So not only did he get experience, he got it working for one of his heroes.
In time, of course the story is he got regular work for him, so now he’s working for his idol and getting paid well at the same time.
December 2nd, 2011 at 9:57 am
Thank for all the terrific leads for FEE-based writing jobs!
I’m responding to warn readers/writers against ad revenue sharing sites like Suite 101 and HubPages.
Unless you only want exposure on line and not an income, Suite 101 et al. are HUGE ripoffs.
They literally pay pennies per posted article! I wrote more than 1,000 articles for HubPages and never got paid because they don’t pay until your earnings reach $100. Mine never did.
Suite 101 paid me a whopping $10 for 50 articles.
Both sites pay writers every time a reader not only clicks on the writer’s article, but also clicks on the sleazy ads that deface the text of the article.
HubPages has a robotic censor that isn’t very sophisticated and unpublishes articles that contain legitimate words which the robot censor flags as obscene. I wrote an article on Sigmund Freud which HubPages’ robot unpublished!?
Frank Sanello
als says:
December 14th, 2011 at 5:40 am
thanks for taking the time to tip others off.
hope you earn according to your efforts soon