As you may know, a while back I broke the freelance writing jobs off of AFW and back onto their own domain (to decrease clutter in search results among other things). A few more changes are planned:
- I plan to change the design to match the main blog.
- I plan to keep the job board on the main page there. This not only has made significant progress in monetizing the site, but also gives you constantly updating (and often locally-targeted) writing jobs.
- I plan to keep as close to daily posting of new jobs as possible (these can be accessed in full by clicking on “freelance writing jobs” in the sidebar – under categories). These can also be accessed more directly by signing up for email updates (you’ll get the full posts with job links via email shortly after they’re posted, so you don’t even have to visit the site directly).
- I’m going to only leave the “freelance writing jobs” and “blogging jobs” categories there, and will be keeping them separate (no more blogging jobs in with other writing gig listings, as they’ll be strictly in their own posts).
Before I made the design changes and category changes, I’d like some feedback from you.
I’m thinking about having stricter rules about the quality of gigs that get posted. Here’s what I’d like to know from you:
- Are there certain types of gigs you don’t think should be included at all?
- Anything you think should be emphasized?
- Should I put basic pay requirements in (such as nothing under $10, $20, or more per article)?
- What about gigs that don’t publicly list what they’re paying? Should I make a judgment call on whether they sound like they may be lucrative and worth posting, or should I leave them out?
- Would you like to see certain types of sites labeled if I include postings from them (like a tag for bidding sites or sites where you have to register to apply or get the full details)?
What would make that blog / feature more useful for you?
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Lori
Hi! I think that the labeling concept is a great idea. Personally, I don’t waste time on bidding sites and find the sites that just list a jumble of links to jobs you bid on annoying. I’m sure there are many others who do use them, but it would be nice to know not to even click that link if that’s what it leads to.
Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
I’d like to only see gigs that post what they’ll pay, but sometimes I’m just lazy. I’ve been happy with what has been posted so far and can pick and choose with ease.
Pointing out which sites need registration could be helpful.
Keep up the good work!
pwc
Yeah, that’s one of the biggest issues I’m still struggling with. Unfortunately the best gigs are often not advertised to begin with, and when they are, they don’t usually post the pay details (for fear of being bombarded by applications from unqualified writers). So it’s a tough call – if I go with only gigs listing rates, they’ll have to be lower-paying gigs, because that’s simply what’s available under that ad constraint.
I’d love to stick with higher-paying gigs, and gigs listing payment terms, but don’t think that’s really a likely scenario.
Job relisting sites are a dime a dozen nowadays.They’re all copycats and all list the same things.
I’d rather see less sites listing the same old jobs and more informative articles and how to’s. We all know where to find the jobs unless you offer something completely different from everyone else, I won’t be subscribing.
Thanks for the feedback Melissa. A lot of people do subscribe to the jobs blog however, so it won’t be going anywhere – they do, because they’d rather have the searching done for them than have to peruse the sites themselves.
As for informative articles, that’s what this blog is for. The articles are here. The jobs used to be combined as a supplement, but they caused search problems among other things, and people liked being able to subscribe just for regular jobs and not all of the other content. So they were broken off to their own domain (which does quite well as a standalone site traffic- and income-wise; two other reasons it won’t be disappearing). ;) They’re still tied together though, hence the plan to match the designs again.