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How to Grow Yourself as a Professional Freelancer in Blogging?

When you 1st begin out as a freelance writer, setting your rates low to attain clients could be the quickest way to call in several cold, difficult cash. Typically, it's critical to locate a role and assign yourself to a government. you may wish to expend time acquiring trade nuances, gaining encounters and clients, and honing your writing talents. These are all integral steps in beginning a freelance writing profession. However, once you have discovered the excellent niche, and researched and written abundant essays on the subject, elevating your rates becomes appropriate.

Freelance Tips to Know Blog SEO

Understanding and keeping up with the latest SEO tactics is important for several reasons. Most clients want their articles optimized for search engines. As a freelance writer of web-based content, part of your job is to be able to provide this type of content. Knowing the proper way to create search engine-friendly content will land you more clients and raise the value of your writing.

Most freelance writing ads I see on Blogging Pro and Freelancer all require a skilled writer as well as someone who knows SEO. The two pretty much go hand-in-hand. It's not hard to learn the basics of keyword densities and search engine aggregation.

SEO copy is written specifically for websites and blogs. It helps search engines to index and categorize websites so people can find them online.

Websites and blogs are always in demand and have made up a substantial portion of my freelance work over the years. If you want to write for them, SEO skills are a must.

As a bare minimum, you should know how to research keywords and phrases and where to place them for the best results. You should also understand the best format for web copy that helps people to read it easily.

The following skills and knowledge will give you a more competitive edge:

• Keyword and key-phrase research — the best tools and techniques to use
• Long-tail SEO — how to research and make use of longer phrases
• Competitor research — to differentiate a website from its competition
• Web development — an understanding of how websites are designed and built
• Landing pages — how to write landing pages that convert
• User behavior — how website visitors find, use, read, and navigate websites
• Calls to action — what they are and how to use them
• Google Analytics — how to interpret and use the data

There's tons of free material online about it. It's important to begin studying these freelance writing necessities as soon as you begin your career. Billing yourself as a talented writer and an Internet marketing whiz will score you plenty of work and help you make that bank from a freelance writing career.

Don't slack on the SEO when you write content for your own sites either. Try to write each post with the search engines in mind, creating them to be easily "crawled". Doing this from the start will ensure your site gets placed high in search results later down the road.

Honor Your Skills Always

This is a hard one. I struggle with it every day because it can be difficult to determine pricing as a freelance writer, especially when you're first starting out. There's a fine line between growing a client base by undercutting a competitor, and completely undervaluing your talents. Breaking out of the "I'm getting experience" or "I need more clients" phase can be tough, but essential if you want to turn this freelance writing thing into a career.

1. Brush up on your written English.

Being able to write well is the most basic skill you need as a copywriter. The following tips can help to build your confidence, improve your writing skills and widen your vocabulary:

• Read widely — non-fiction books; quality newspapers and magazines; websites and blogs; examples of successful sales letters, press ads, and campaigns 
• Analyze the formats, layouts, and sentence structures of existing copy
• Write daily, or as often as you can

2. Develop some complementary skills.

It's always good to add some more strings to your bow — even if it's only improving your understanding of a different discipline.

The following skills, which I developed in previous employment, have been invaluable to me as a copywriter:

• Marketing
• Public relations (PR)
• Journalism/Reporting
• Research
• Client liaison
• Understanding of design and layout — in print and online
• Web development

For one, there are bills to pay, and writing for pennies per word won't pay them without a whole lot of time and effort. There's nothing wrong with hard work, but building your freelance writing career is about more than just creating content. You have to have time to do other things like grow your business and attract new clients. That's impossible if you're writing articles all day.

Secondly, if you undervalue your skills, clients will undervalue them as well. It can be tough raising your rates for the first time, but as with most things, it all comes down to confidence. If you have researched and written content on a specific subject for months or years, there comes a time when you can confidently consider yourself an expert, and price your services accordingly.

There is a wealth of information on the Internet about freelance writing rates. Read blogs, connect with freelance writers on LinkedIn, and investigate what others are charging. Before long you'll be earning what you deserve, and living the good life as a well-paid, freelance writer.

Never Lagging Your Learning

Recently, an editor for a freelance writing site critiqued some articles I submitted. He explained that I'm confused about proper comma usage. This didn't surprise me considering I don't exactly have a college degree. But it did get me thinking. No matter how skillful of a writer you are, there's always more to learn.

After his comments, I began Googling proper comma usage. I even asked for help on Facebook. I realized that besides commas, I'm confused about many things grammatical. However, this is easily fixed with an old-school study hall.

Now, I work an hour of studying into my daily routine. I usually do this in the morning while I check emails. Finding help on grammar is as easy as a Google search.

Even if it's just a refresher, studying and understanding proper grammar is invaluable as a freelance writer. Committing time to this endeavor will help open doors to more lucrative and demanding clients.

Learn some copywriting best practices.

There are plenty of copywriting courses out there, along with books, eBooks, blogs, articles, and exercises. 

How you choose to learn is entirely up to you, but look for recommendations or ask other copywriters about the resources they have found most helpful.

I took a course from the Institute of Copywriting back in 2006/7. By then I was already proficient in some aspects of copywriting but wanted a more rounded introduction to the area. The course provided this, along with mentoring from a professional copywriter.

Personally, I found the course valuable — even though the diploma isn't a recognized qualification. It gave me insight into the business of copywriting, taught me new skills, and helped to build on my copywriting portfolio.