How to Get Maximum As a Freelance Writers - Ten Tips For New & impatient Freelance Writers

Long, long ago there lived a Gardener. While on the dead bed, he called his two sons and gave each of them small plants. He told them that these are very special plants and would give fruit in few months, enabling his sons to earn some good money. After his death both the sons took the plants to their home and started to take care.

One of the sons took great care of the plant and provided proper water, air, light and fertilizer and in few weeks the plant was ready for fruits. On the other hand, the other son after providing water daily, of and on, used to pick the plant out of the soil to see whether it had took root or not. The result was obvious. Due to impatience of the second son the plant faded and died in few days.

Online writing is just like that. A freelancer is just like a peasant who sows the seeds and then work day and night. Soon his hard work is rewarded by the nature and one day he gets his fruit. A Blog is just like a small plant, which needs plenty of posts, links and reasonable time for optimization. The first lesson a newbie online freelance writers should learn is patience. If you keep doing good work; you will succeed. However, if you are here to earn hundreds of dollars in weeks, just in the beginning, I am afraid to say, you are living in a fools paradise. If you are looking for quick reward of your work, I think you may have to abandon your work very soon, as there is nothing like that for online writers. Some very successful freelancers have worked for years to get themselves recognized and now they are making thousands of dollars in a month. Impatient writers have to abandon their effort very early and very quickly.

2. The easiest way to write online is blogging. What they can do with blogging? Through blogging, without having any technical knowledge about creating a website, one can exist on internet and let the world know about his existence. A freelancer may get his skills recognized and share his opinion and expertise. There are many blogging sites which offer freelancers to created blogs for free to share their photos, writings, latest news and hobbies.

3. The next tip for the newbie freelancer is to choose the objective of his blog. Think; total population of the world consists of trillions of inhabitants and each one sees the world with a different angle. So there is every probability that your point view may be of great value and unique contents of your blog may touch the hearts of many. Hence choosing a topic of blog is very important.

Ask a question to yourself, "In which topic I have the most experience and expertise?" What is the most favorite subject of your choice? It may sound easy but certainly a tricky question. Most of the people are unaware of the real potentials they have. Self assessment is always difficult. So you can get help from your loved ones.

The topic could be linked to your profession, your favorite game, news or anything else. For example, you have just watched a soccer match on your TV. Why you should not write a review of that match or before start of the match you can give a prediction of the match. Some people are fond of watching TV serials, hence they can write a critical review on these serials. Religion could also be an area on which almost everyone could write and religious topics are quite popular too on the net. An easy way could be to write on more than one subject and request your friends and family to guide you in which topic you are the best. So go on and think for your first blog on that particular topic.

If you are new to the online writing, you should teach yourself to expect some unexpected responses. You may receive less overwhelming response in respect of blogs where you worked hard and the blogs which you think may get less attraction could generate handsome traffic. Don't be shaken up on the negative response and similarly don't be over-enthusiastic over the unexpected overwhelming response.

In the beginning you could never know which niche is most popular on the net. However, top search lists of Google, yahoo and Bing etc. can guide you in this context. You can find the most popular queries; people are searching on Google at www.google.com/zeitgeist. You can also find out the top searched queries from Yahoo, Bing and other search engines quite easily. However, it may be kept in your mind that if the top searches are not of the area of your interest, don't be worry. The people who write on the top searches may also have to tackle more competition, so continue writing on the area of your expertise.

However, there is still one thing more to learn and that is how to title your article. It is very important. Check out the Google search by entering a search query and it is very common that you may get millions of entries. You being new in freelancing could never get your work on the first few pages on the search engine. So you may be more specific while giving title to your article and try your best to give a unique title to your article which also include the most popular searched key words.

4. Most of the freelancers in the beginning give least attention on selecting the blogging platform of their choice. If you are writing to make some money, the decision needs careful consideration. Most of the sites e.g. freelancer, wordpress and livenjournal allow blogging for free. However, each site has distinct features. One has to visit each site and consider the features of each site to decide which one is much suited to his needs.

It is recommended to create your blogs on one platform instead of spreading them on different blogging sites. Most of the sites have rating standards. So if you blog frequently on a single blogging site you may get a batter rating and ultimately more audience.

5. On the free blogging platforms one should have to do search optimization work on his own, which require expertise and bit technical work. This means that though you have created a fabulous blog but nobody could find it out through search engines unless you have made some hectic efforts to publicize your blog through various means. It is just like that you have a very special item to sell on unbelievable price but your shop is located in an area far away from the city. Nobody knows about your shop. So what you do. Certainly, you will get help from advertisement and publicity.

For newcomers, it is recommended to choose sites like hubpages, triond, helium, associatecontents, essortment and many others. These sites have professionals and great mechanism to optimize the blogs/articles. They also have rating systems; hence if you get a better rating a better response from the online audience is a must. Only you have to do is to share the portion of the revenue. However, this should not be a matter of worry; as otherwise, it took too long to generate traffic for your blog. This is the easiest way to makes others to read your opinions, areas of interest and so on. Besides, these sites have great tools to help you improve your writing skills. The skilled writers have plenty of opportunities to earn there.

6. If you have decided to blog independently, optimization of your blog is to be done on your own. Search engines like Google, yahoo, Bing etc are the most significant sources to generate traffic to a blog. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) means; increasing the ranking of your blog. People usually click on the websites/blogs appearing on the first page of the search engines. The ranking is determined by the search engines keeping in view the key words related to a particular search, Meta tags, relevancy of the material, number of posts & visitors it has and many other factors. For this purpose, register your blog with Google, yahoo and other search engines. You can use google webmaster tools to optimize the blog. To learn more visit: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/. As stated earlier, the search engines follow key words and many other factors to optimize a website, so you may use key words related to your tops. For more details read Google search engine optimization starter guide. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com, which contains very useful information about SEO. You may email the address of your blog to your friends, which may also enhance the rank of your blog.

7. Through your blog you can make some money. Blogging sites like Wordpress and Livejournal do not allow ads on your blog for free. However, freelancer is the site which allows ads on your blogs for free. Allowing ads on freelancer is quite easy. Just click on the button "Monetize". This button allows ads on your blog from adsense and amazone associates. You can also find other affiliates and allow there ads on your blog. By allowing ads on your blog you have the chance to earn some hard cash. The visitors of your blog may like to click on these ads and you will be able to win some money on each click. The thing to remember is that you should not do this on your own or ask some of your friends to click on these ads as this may force your affiliate associate like google Adsense to terminate your account and chances to earn would fade.

8. Finding the relevant audience is also important aspect of freelancing. After creating your first blog and allowing ads on it, the next step is to know; who would like these contents. Whether the contents attract youngster, men, women or elderly people or any particular audience? Tell people about your blog. This can be done by getting yourself registered on social media networks like tweeter, facebook, delicious and badoo etc. A list of social media networks is available on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_ networking_websites.

Create your profile on these sites and add the addresses of your blogs there. Make friends and followers on these sites. If you have high quality and unique contents there is no reason why you may not get the attraction of the audience. Spread the addresses of your URL and not the contents. Spreading your contents will ultimately reduce the ranking just as it improves the ranks to have addresses on more and more sites. This is the most common mistake most of the newbie freelancers used to make.

9. Be consistent in pouring posts on your blog. Small posts are great. Don't deviate from your topic. Invite your relatives, colleague and friends to visit and if they found the blog interesting they may recommend others to visit your blog. Always encourage your audience to leave a comment about your blog.

10. Don't loose your temperament. As stated above, freelancing needs lots of efforts to get recognized. Hence the first and the last tip for beginners is; "patience, patience & patience" and you will ultimately get the right status according to your capabilities, skills and potentials.