When I resigned as a call center agent and decided to work at home, I never imagined myself getting into SEO or keyword writing. I did not even know the meaning of SEO. And so there I was clueless and enjoying the state of being jobless until I got bored and decided that I need to be productive for the sake of my decomposing brain. I always wanted to work at home since I have a demanding 2 year old kid that always crave for attention but totally worth it. Anyway, my ever supportive husband tried to ask around to his workmates who happen to be doing some work at home as a part time job. That’s when we got to know about odesk and intrigued us.
We have heard a lot of success stories about high paying work at home jobs. Some of our friends are even rumored to earn 50,000 a month. Roughly that’s a thousand us dollar a month which is already big when it comes to Philippine currency. They said that the first step is to own a computer and an internet connection. So that’s what we did, we bought a computer actually it’s more of borrowed until I can buy my own computer with my back pay from my old company and got internet connection. I still don’t have any idea on SEO or keyword writing at this point. I signed up for odesk and tried to fill up the profile page and took some skills test to showcase and prove that I am knowledgeable on those areas. My idea was to apply as a virtual assistant, data entry or a technical support representative but don’t want to focus on writing as it had been a long forgotten passion. Partly I don’t want to be a writer because I thought that I was rusty in writing anymore and was afraid of starting from scratch again. I applied to a couple of customer service job and always get declined because I lack odesk experience.
One day I decided that I will take any job just as long as I can put an experience on odesk and took a challenge head on. I noticed that there are a lot of Job openings for SEO keyword writing. And so I decided do get to know what SEO is all about since I don’t have the faintest clue on what it is. I don’t even know what SEO stands for. I googled and picked off course like all other surfers would do is to pick the first search results and found out that SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization to some its known as keyword writing. Ok so my eyebrows began to raise and tried my best to research further on SEO and key word writing.
Here is what I understood so far. SEO writing is the type of writing jobs that maximizes search engine results. Basically the concept is like this, when we like any other surfer want to find out a certain topic that you need to research on, you would normally type the words or keywords in search engines and usually click on the first search result that was recommended by google or yahoo or any other search engine because that site contained the most matched words that you are looking for. The main thing here is keywords. For example, like what I did I researched on SEO and keyword writing so I typed SEO writing on the search bar and waited for the search results that contained the keyword that I typed or related words like SEO writers and naturally started from the top going to the bottom search results. Now a lot of companies are spending top dollars to stay on the top search results list thus creating job for SEO writing.
As we all know a company’s website is effectively marketed if there are a lot of viewers on the site or what we call as internet traffic. The more viewers the greater traffic your website creates needing for you to put new contents to it every day so surfers will have something to look forward to. Aside from that the more traffic you generate, the more money you can get because of paid advertisements that is posted on your site like what google is doing with google adsense. I think this is the reason why there’s a need for creative SEO writers every day. There are still a lot of things that needs to be discussed with SEO writing but I will save that for the next post because I had been writing the whole night already and I’m about to throw my keyboard already because I am tired.
On the positive note, just a few days ago I got my first payment in keyword blog writing. Right now I consider myself as a struggling writer hoping to be a well paid writer in the near future. So what happened was I tried to apply in some writing jobs and prayed so hard that I could land any job even if it’s writing and start earning money. I have to start somewhere. Eight days after applying for some writing jobs on odesk someone believed in me and actually hired me and tried to train me on keyword writing or SEO writing. Well up to now I still appreciate the feedback that he is giving me. The assignment was a blog post minimum of 100 words that should contain the keyword that he provided. Articles can be rewritten but must be original and pass copyscape and avoid the mortal sin of plagiarism. More details on the next post. I agreed to be paid a $0.25 per blog post. I’m starting so don’t expect a significant amount. Bottom line is I was happy to land my first job. I did ten blog post for my provider and luckily was awarded with another ten and then thirty more for a total of 50 blog post. I felt blessed because I felt like I was able to gain my providers trust as he keeps on awarding me more jobs. We agreed that he will pay me after 50 blog post. I computed it was $12.50 for my hard work for a couple of days. Imagine my surprised when he paid me $19 for the job. The bonus that I received was more than 50 percent of the agreed amount. Still not a significant amount but let me stress out again that I am just starting and haven’t done this for 15 days yet. That bonus was a needed confidence booster.
Anyhoo, I never thought that I would end up concentrating in SEO writing and actually earn from it. I am enjoying my job so far because it is intellectually stimulating as compared to my previous job and the best bonus is I could be beside my son literally while doing it. Nothing beats that perk, mother son quality time. I’ll try to update my blog in between writing jobs for further practice on my writing skills.
We have heard a lot of success stories about high paying work at home jobs. Some of our friends are even rumored to earn 50,000 a month. Roughly that’s a thousand us dollar a month which is already big when it comes to Philippine currency. They said that the first step is to own a computer and an internet connection. So that’s what we did, we bought a computer actually it’s more of borrowed until I can buy my own computer with my back pay from my old company and got internet connection. I still don’t have any idea on SEO or keyword writing at this point. I signed up for odesk and tried to fill up the profile page and took some skills test to showcase and prove that I am knowledgeable on those areas. My idea was to apply as a virtual assistant, data entry or a technical support representative but don’t want to focus on writing as it had been a long forgotten passion. Partly I don’t want to be a writer because I thought that I was rusty in writing anymore and was afraid of starting from scratch again. I applied to a couple of customer service job and always get declined because I lack odesk experience.
One day I decided that I will take any job just as long as I can put an experience on odesk and took a challenge head on. I noticed that there are a lot of Job openings for SEO keyword writing. And so I decided do get to know what SEO is all about since I don’t have the faintest clue on what it is. I don’t even know what SEO stands for. I googled and picked off course like all other surfers would do is to pick the first search results and found out that SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization to some its known as keyword writing. Ok so my eyebrows began to raise and tried my best to research further on SEO and key word writing.
Here is what I understood so far. SEO writing is the type of writing jobs that maximizes search engine results. Basically the concept is like this, when we like any other surfer want to find out a certain topic that you need to research on, you would normally type the words or keywords in search engines and usually click on the first search result that was recommended by google or yahoo or any other search engine because that site contained the most matched words that you are looking for. The main thing here is keywords. For example, like what I did I researched on SEO and keyword writing so I typed SEO writing on the search bar and waited for the search results that contained the keyword that I typed or related words like SEO writers and naturally started from the top going to the bottom search results. Now a lot of companies are spending top dollars to stay on the top search results list thus creating job for SEO writing.
As we all know a company’s website is effectively marketed if there are a lot of viewers on the site or what we call as internet traffic. The more viewers the greater traffic your website creates needing for you to put new contents to it every day so surfers will have something to look forward to. Aside from that the more traffic you generate, the more money you can get because of paid advertisements that is posted on your site like what google is doing with google adsense. I think this is the reason why there’s a need for creative SEO writers every day. There are still a lot of things that needs to be discussed with SEO writing but I will save that for the next post because I had been writing the whole night already and I’m about to throw my keyboard already because I am tired.
On the positive note, just a few days ago I got my first payment in keyword blog writing. Right now I consider myself as a struggling writer hoping to be a well paid writer in the near future. So what happened was I tried to apply in some writing jobs and prayed so hard that I could land any job even if it’s writing and start earning money. I have to start somewhere. Eight days after applying for some writing jobs on odesk someone believed in me and actually hired me and tried to train me on keyword writing or SEO writing. Well up to now I still appreciate the feedback that he is giving me. The assignment was a blog post minimum of 100 words that should contain the keyword that he provided. Articles can be rewritten but must be original and pass copyscape and avoid the mortal sin of plagiarism. More details on the next post. I agreed to be paid a $0.25 per blog post. I’m starting so don’t expect a significant amount. Bottom line is I was happy to land my first job. I did ten blog post for my provider and luckily was awarded with another ten and then thirty more for a total of 50 blog post. I felt blessed because I felt like I was able to gain my providers trust as he keeps on awarding me more jobs. We agreed that he will pay me after 50 blog post. I computed it was $12.50 for my hard work for a couple of days. Imagine my surprised when he paid me $19 for the job. The bonus that I received was more than 50 percent of the agreed amount. Still not a significant amount but let me stress out again that I am just starting and haven’t done this for 15 days yet. That bonus was a needed confidence booster.
Anyhoo, I never thought that I would end up concentrating in SEO writing and actually earn from it. I am enjoying my job so far because it is intellectually stimulating as compared to my previous job and the best bonus is I could be beside my son literally while doing it. Nothing beats that perk, mother son quality time. I’ll try to update my blog in between writing jobs for further practice on my writing skills.
