A freelancer is a writer or an artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them. In short, you will work for yourself. A freelance blogger is a writer who writes in blog instead of writing normal articles for newspapers or magazines. The below mentioned tips can also be used for becoming a successful blogger.
Some Tips To Become A Successful Freelance Blogger
- Have a Blog : Create a blog to learn the art of blogging. If you already have a blog, well and good.
- Web Design : Have some basic knowledge on HTML, CSS and XHTML.
- Marketing : Be familiar with SEO. Submit your blog to search engines and so on.
- Niche : Focus on your own niche and then blog about it.
- Updating : Update your blog regularly. Updating daily is preferred.
- Passion : Write articles for which you have passion. In short, blog with passion.
- Consistent : Maintain Consistency. Try to write on a regular basis. Update daily.
- Decision : Decide what you want to write. But, write a topic in which you are good at.
- Advertisement : Don’t overload your blog with ads. That decreases return visitors.
- Willingness : If you don’t know about a specific subject, learn about it.
- Read blogs : You can gather information and be aware of what is happening in other blogs.
- Analytics : Always check your stats and analytics. See if it is better or worse.
Why I wanted to become a freelance blogger ?
- Blogging is simple : Blogging is fun, easy and simple.
- Making Money : Here I can get my money as quick as possible. I can receive my payment easily through PayPal.
- Community : If I develop an established blog, I can reach a huge audience. I can make new friends in blogging field.
- Blog anywhere : I can even blog wearing my pajamas !
I can work from a beach or from a desert, if I have internet connection.
- No fixed hours : I don’t need to have fixed time. I can easily manage time for both my personal and professional life.
- Extra Income : If I need extra income, I can take an additional blogging job or two.
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Good tips, but I would like to say, that be a master in something rather than being the jack of all trades.
Knowing everything is good, but be a genius in one field where you lay ahead of all and there is no competition for you. Always keep gathering knowing and stay up-to-date.
Thanks for the additional tips Rohit !
Updating ourself and our blog is essential for becoming a successful blogger !
Hey ,
Nice POst about freelancing
Regards ,
Sourish
Hey thanks Sourish !
Are you a freelancer ?
Yes.I started my blog just to do what i do for others, while freelancing…
Read about my Freelancing career here:- http://www.onetrickaday.com/about
Thats great Sourish !
Nice to have connection with an experienced freelancer ! Having some doubts and questions to ask !
nice post and useful one.
Thanks SriGanesh !
Do you want to become a freelancer ?
I do appreciate the post, but from where do I get ads? Google has banned me for no reason.
Elvia, I know the story !
But don’t give up, your site has rich content indeed.
Try other alternatives. We can discuss this in Orkut ! ..
Wow! nice post, I agree with tech freak, master in one trade is sufficient, if anyone want to become writer then he needn’t go for designing or coding part. Consistency and passion are very necessary terms of blogging.
Yes Himanshu !
I don’t like working for others for a long term !
A freelancer can easily manage personal and professional life.
Dude, are you are a freelancer ?
I think all the famous writers of the newspapers should have a blog rather than working under them and getting lower salary
what say pradeep???
Yeah yeah.. it will be more easy to interact with people !
But do you think they will get more exposure than newspaper ?
ya dude
They will also get chance to meet many International companies which he/she is unaware.
wat do you think??
Yeah yeah !
They can get indirect or direct contact with them !
You covered so many aspects very well in this post, just one feedback that making money is not so simple. You need to initiate lot many things and continue with that on your blog or share some free stuff on your blog to get recognized. Rest are really cool.
I’m totally agreeing with you Sanjeev !
Many people got recognition by giving free stuffs and services !
Making money is a slow process, but will become steady once it completes some goals !
Hi Pradeep, Great tips! I am planning to take short course about programming and web design. Well, I do online jobs for full time now for some of the reasons you state above: making money and no fixed hours. What I like best is that I can earn much better than average fresh graduates in my country. Can you call that entrepreneur? Lol..
Glad you are making your country proud Yasinta !
Being a freelance blogger has so many advantages !
Hope I will become a freelancer soon !
A freelancer should also know how to write for search engine and for people. They should also learn how to write for adsense by not writing the solution to what they are writing about so that people can leave their sites through adsense and not through the ‘x’ button at the top of their browser.
Hey really cool tips !
Thanks for sharing them here !
Welcome to HellBound Bloggers !
hi pradeep
good post.
well this comment is not necessary related to post.
Can you please tell me how to add google search engine to blog
Zeesu, go to Google CSE and follow the steps ! If you need further help, please comment here or mail me !
Having the right passion takes us a long way.That’s right dude ..
Yeah.. blogging with passion… really helps !
Freelancing is a challenge. Without courage and confidence, one can easily gave in. As I believe many commentators here will agree, passion is indeed the main factor that got us going. What excites me is besides the income, you get to learn and meet so many people.. more benefits go without saying (since you’ve mentioned well on your post above). I just like to wish all Freelance blogger a great success! Keep up the good work !
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Thanks for your first comment here Ching Ya !
Like you mentioned, courage and confidence are some important things !
And we can make solid relationship with other bloggers and freelancers, which motivated me to become a freelance blogger !
thanks for the article Pradeep… The tips are very helpful.
I have just started my own blog to help my country men use the internet to earn their way out of poverty.
more power to your blog…
Hey thats great Richard !
All the best for the success of your blog !
Great target, Richard. I hope in near future I can do something to help people in my country too. Especially the stay-at-home housewives.. Thank you. Honestly, Pradeep always writes down-to-earth but useful blog posts.
Yasinta, you are a patriot !
Which women stays @ home ?
And Yasinta, I would love to see technical topics in your blog ! Please one sometime !
Nice list Pradeep, Thanks.
Thanks Anish ! Glad you like it !
Cool post! Thanks for the tip.
Thanks Hakeem !
Are u a freelance blogger ? or want to become one ?
One of the many ways in which you can make good money is Blogging and if I am not wrong Mr.Kumar Pradeep is one of them.Kumar you can show the way to many such budding bloggers out there.Sure one should have the passion and that’s why most of them are out there blogging.All the best to you.
Thanks a ton dude ! That was really gr8 !
I want to become a freelance blogger, now studying the concepts and works behind it !
Hey pradeep, this is a great post indeed! Certainly, Soon you would be among those great freelance bloggers. YOur passion of blogging is taking you closer and closer to the target. Keep it up
Hey thanks a ton Amar !
I love to become a Freelance Blogger, thanks for the encouraging words !
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I am a freelancer blogger and you covered all good tips .
Gr8 Ruchi ! I’m also going to become a freelance blogger, hope you will guide me !
Bhaiya, One thing I would say, you really do Blogging with passion
, seeing your posts it doesn’t seem that you are here only for making money, go on brother, i know you will.. I want to ask one thing do you started guest Blogging before launching your blog, or after??? Because I want to write for your blog…
Kashish’s last blog …TechKashish…
Hey Kaushik, thanks for that ! (~_^)
And, Guest Blogging was introduced after 2-3 months of blog’s launch !
You are always welcome to write here ! …
well the tips are great….i guess this is one of ur most famous posts
i hav not been online recently or wud have commented b4 hand
Ha ha.. no hard feelings buddy!
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Good article in deed, but I just want to know where do you get good projects as a freelancewriter. Can you list some sites that pays its freelancers with out cheating.
Oops. I have not gone to that stay buddy!
But, there are many blogs and sites willing to hire freelance writers for a fee. Some of them are About.com, ProBlogDesign.com, and so on.
nice tips even for newbie bloggers