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JohnnyD

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I believe I have a basic idea of the workings of the dealings between the buyer and writer. So much per word. Certain length of the article. I'm not sure past this part what it's about. Does the buyer give guidelines, such as whom it is written to, what to write about? Or is it broader? Would a writer be asked to just write articles say about a certain website, product, service?

If I've answered my own thoughts, I'd appreciate simple feedback saying so. If not could someone clarify this for me. I might be reading way too into it, and it might be as simple as it looks. However, I've jumped into things that looked simple and gotten burnt doing so.
 


You did answer your own questions.

When I've hired content writers, I've normally suggested 10-50 different topics to write about. I gathered topics through keyword research. If you find a writer that really knows the general topic it will be very easy for them to put together your content for you.

So yes - you do give them some guidelines, how you want the articles/content to read etc.,

Any content writers I've used, I've always supplemented the article by doing my own editing so that it feels like I wrote it. That also was a good time to add my long-tail keywords into the article.
 
TheMoMan said:
You did answer your own questions.

When I've hired content writers, I've normally suggested 10-50 different topics to write about. I gathered topics through keyword research. If you find a writer that really knows the general topic it will be very easy for them to put together your content for you.

So yes - you do give them some guidelines, how you want the articles/content to read etc.,

Any content writers I've used, I've always supplemented the article by doing my own editing so that it feels like I wrote it. That also was a good time to add my long-tail keywords into the article.
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Thanks, I now more curious about the topics part of it. Such as when I read people asking for 5 articles for example. Is it usually 5 articles on 1 subject or multiple subjects?

I'm looking to try and get into this. I been asking around trying to find direction and some real life friends pointed me more towards my English. I'd put the idea of internet marketing behind me but remembered about the content writing. Figure I'd try and learn what the ins and outs are before diving in too much. Don't want to burn people by not doing well and then getting a bad rep for it. Much appreciated on the feedback on the original question.
 
You can request 5 articles on one topic, and work them so that they are a series of posts/articles and selectively post the 1st few with links back to your site to read the rest OR you can have 5 unique articles on different topics all related to the same niche.

Keyword density - it can be up to you to plug into the articles or have the writer do it for you. If they are understand what you're trying to do and they know how to write well they would be able to handle keyword density for you by sprinkling the article with the keywords just enough to make it readable and not spammy.

Of course, you could do this as well.
 
JohnnyD said:
I believe I have a basic idea of the workings of the dealings between the buyer and writer. So much per word. Certain length of the article. I'm not sure past this part what it's about. Does the buyer give guidelines, such as whom it is written to, what to write about? Or is it broader? Would a writer be asked to just write articles say about a certain website, product, service?

If I've answered my own thoughts, I'd appreciate simple feedback saying so. If not could someone clarify this for me. I might be reading way too into it, and it might be as simple as it looks. However, I've jumped into things that looked simple and gotten burnt doing so.
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If I'm not mistaking, you're wanting to offer content writing services?

It varies greatly from order to order. When I was offering such services, I would get very general guidelines sometimes, and other times, very specific direction. You'll be asked for article marketing purposes, product reviews, linkbait, etc. At least I was.

The kind of work you get really depends on where you position yourself in the market, but a good freelance writer should be asking the important questions.

By the looks of it, I'd say you're reading into the whole thing too much. Content writing is one of the easiest and most straightforward gigs you can get involved with. Though I'm assuming you can write reasonably well. Just jump into things if you are confident in your work. Find out what the costumer wants. Deliver. Get Paid.

Get ready for a lot of long nights:zzwhip:
 
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