I decided that it was time that I had a paid blog which was dedicated to writing for the web as most of my other blogs are about nal">freelancing in general or about writing and research.

Freelance Web Writing

Freelance web writing is a rapidly growing sector as more business owners have neither the time nor the expertise to write their own copy. While I do write stuff that is not intended for the we, most of my freelance writing falls under that heading. There is a lot of scope for freelancing in this way providing you write decent English and have a fairly quick turnaround time. As a general rule I try to make sure that I keep to any deadlines that clients set.

During the Christmas period and immediately after however, I was extremely stressed for reasons I will not mention here and some of my work was late - in fact I lost one good client altogether. It was a pity because we had a good working relationship and he was a prompt payer, but he needed to know exactly what the status of the work was, and this is where I let him down.

I have had to put this down to experience and try to avoid taking on work when I know things are getting me down or I am ill.

One thing that is absolutely vital when writing for the web; try to ensure that your post is clear and has no glaring spelling or grammatical errors as this is a common complaint about web writers. Make sure your content is interesting, informative, and as well written as you can make it.

How Much Can I Earn?

No doubt you are wondering how much you can earn writing for the web. Generally speaking the rates are a lot lower than they might be for other freelancing gigs. If you work hard and develop relationships with your clients then you can begin to charge a reasonable rate for your work - many people, myself included started out writing for $0.01 cent a word and I will still take on these jobs when times are slow.  A lot of the gigs are for US publishers which means that the rate is actually lower for UK writers because of the status of the dollar against the pound.