Know your subject, learn the techniques to write well on web and know how to market; these are keys to success in earning money through online writing jobs on web. Here are the techniques; you can follow to stay ahead in competition.
1. Know your strength and area of expertise. Write articles in which you are expert, so that when you have the writing opportunities, your content will give you edge over other writers.
2. Quality of writing is highly important in online writing jobs e.g. chances are there that a busy editor will not continue to read your article if he sees lots of grammatical errors.
3. Read other web contents to enhance your knowledge and skill in Freelance writing jobs.
4. Freelance writing jobs require that you should know Formatting Basics. Content formatting can be style specific.
(a) News writing - Generally include shorter paragraphs
(b) Writing for Readers - General readers doesn't read in the way they read printed articles. They navigate straight through an article. They want to scan for the actual information; they need at that point of time. So, when you have the writing opportunities for readers use bold headings, subheadings, bullets and numbers.
(c) Client specific - Sometimes clients say to avoid Web writing standards and write in long paragraphs and in a particular formatting style. You should take care while availing such writing opportunities.
5. To practice you can apply following technique.
You can choose a topic on which you intend to write in near future. Upon that topic, try to search for something specific and dig out four-five articles from web. Have a look at those and try to find out the following:
(a) What should be the length of article if you have written to make it better?
(b) What should be the length of paragraphs to make it better?
(c) Is there any formatting mistakes or changes needed to make the article better?
(d) What was the thing that could have stopped you while reading through the article?
(e) Was the article made you feel that you should click on ads on the page?
