Typing As A Skill For Freelancers

 How To Make Money With Your Typing Skills

Typing is perhaps one of the first things we learn to do with our computers. The more time you spend on your personal computer or laptop, the faster your typing skills get. The good news is, that typing is a skill you can monetize as a freelancer. Here are some gigs you can book with your typing skills.

Writing Jobs

Writing articles for online publications is a very common way to make money online. With the need for brands to be online website content needs to be constantly created. Another way to make money from a subject that you know well is to write a blog. All these writing jobs will require that you use your typing skills to type your words out. The faster you can type the more you can earn money as a freelancing writer.

Transcription Jobs

Transcribing is the translation of spoken words in video or audio format to written words. It is a great way to earn money online as a freelancer. You will be typing out words of video, podcasts, speeches, interviews and so much more. These jobs often pay per word or by transcription minute. It is consistent work that you could always do all year round.

E-books

With the migration of people online for knowledge and entertainment. You can always create e-books and sell them online for money. From romance novels to sci-fi e-books. Freelancers have taken to making passive income by writing and creating e-books. E-books retail from $0.99 to $5, which is an easy way to make money as a self-published author that doesn't have to ship anything to their customers.

Virtual Assistant Jobs

A virtual assistant helps their employers by being the additional set of hands needed. They fulfill anything from responding to emails, booking flights, creating expense reports and so much more. Often times virtual assistants are hired and fulfill their duties online which means your typing skills will be required in all the work and correspondence needed for this job. Virtual assistance start at around $20 per hour depending on the tasks to be fulfilled.

Translation Jobs

Translating jobs require that you take work in one language and type it into another. Translating jobs are useful for video or audio work available in one language but may have a wide audience in another language. Translation jobs are a constant in most freelancing platforms. Translating jobs pay per word or per hour and the pay will range from $30 to $100 per hour.

If you are wondering how fast your typing is you can always take a typing test, some websites will even give you a certificate which you can share with your potential employers. Do you make money with your typing skills? Comment below and share with our community of African freelancers.

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All About Backlinks

 Everything You Need To Know About Backlinks

Backlinks have remained google's most effective ranking factor since the early days of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Your knowledge of backlinks will determine how successful your online store, blog, or website does.

A backlink is basically, an incoming hyperlink from one webpage to another website. Backlinks are also referred to as inbound links because they represent another website's traffic coming to your site. The quality and quantity of backlinks can help you rank higher on search engines such as Google and Bing.

Why Backlinks Are Important

• Helps Search engines determine which websites should rank highest for any given search online.
• Can help generate more traffic from referred visitors.
• Backlinks can help search engines discover your page faster.
• Backlinks can be seen as references that determine the relevance of your site to the given visitors. The more references you have the more validity it gives your website or blog article.

What Makes A Good Backlink

A good backlink gives topic relevance. Search engines look at how many times a backlink gets clicked to determine its relevance to a query. The more times it gets clicked the more relevant it appears to be.

A good backlink has great authority. This refers to the quality and quantity of backlinks from referring websites and web pages. Search engines have page ranks using data such as domain popularity and the overall strength of a web page's popularity. For example, news websites will probably rank higher than gossip blogs for credibility of reporting a world leader's death.

How To Check For Backlinks To Any Website

Google Search Console (free)

Ahrefs' backlink chepvpc (free backlink checker)

Majestic (Paid)

Monitor backlinks (free trial)

How To Get More Backlinks

Earn them: Natural organic growth links to your page.

Create them.  Add links pointing back to your site. Search engines. Social Media and word of mouth. You can do these using forums, directories, blog comments, etc.

Build them. Done by reaching out to site owners, editors, or webmasters and ask them to link to your page.

This is a quick summary of backlinks, what they are, how they are used, and how to get more of them. Do you feel like you have a better understanding of backlinks? If so, share with our community of African freelancers how you intend on using backlinks for your website.

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How To Drive Traffic To Your Site Without Social Media

Alternative Sources For Your Traffic

Social media has played a great role in helping us market our brands and communicate with our audience. Although it plays an important role, it should not be the only way that brands and content creators gain new followers. Keep your social media strategy, but also incorporate alternative sources of traffic for your content as well as your brand. Here are five alternative sources for traffic to your website.

Search Engine Optimization

Search engines are a great source of additional traffic. If you have a query, chances are you go on a search engine to find answers. Search engines like google, bing, ask.com, and even Youtube can drive traffic to your websites and for your brand. You appear on search engines by creating relevant content to your niche as well as being mentioned on other websites and news sources.

Guest Posts

Creating content for other websites as a guest writer is a great way of driving traffic to your site. By being a guest writer, you introduce their audience to you and your brand and sometimes redirect them to your own platform. Even when they don't click on a link directing them to your site, they become aware of you and your brand and familiarity is one step closer to converting.

Referral Traffic Through Similar Websites

By creating a strong niche website with relevant content, you will find that similar niche websites will reference your work and add links to an article or content created by you. Organic referrals are a great way to drive traffic to your brand or website, and this is a reward for hard work refining your niche and creating relevant content on your topic of interest.

Display Ads

Display ads are a form of advertisement that display messages in audio, video, and images on websites. They appear in a banner format in different sizes from small to half-page banners. They tend to be placed at a distinct point of a website designated for ads. 

The aim is to display an ad that will trigger users to click on the banner to access the content of an ad quickly. The targeted users are more likely to convert into customers and for that reason, they are paid ads, paid per click in most cases, and sometimes paid for impressions of users who get to see the display ad.

Email Marketing

Email marketing is an effective form of marketing that will drive traffic to your website or content. One of the reasons why e-mail marketing is so effective is the method that was used to collect the email addresses of users. If these e-mail addresses are submitted by the user for occasional marketing, then they are more likely to open the e-mails sent to see new products and updates on services. 

Especially since you can also collect with their email addresses crucial information such as the name of the user, their pronouns, and the reason the email address was obtained. Was it during checkout as they bought a product on your website? Did the user give their email address in order to get a free download of an e-book? This vital information can give you insight on how to convert the e-mail user, by offering them exactly what would interest them and is an easy way to drive traffic to your website.

With social media accounts being hacked or even deleted by platforms. It is important to rely on different methods to drive traffic to your site and stay in touch with a new and existing target audience. Which of these methods of driving traffic to your websites do you use as an alternative source of traffic to your site? 

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Creating Content That Converts

 5 Tips For Creating Content That Converts

With an increasing number of platforms where creators can publish their content in the form of videos, photos, or the written word. It is amazing how difficult it can be to create content that converts. It may be free to publish your content but it isn't always easy to show up at the forefront of your target audience. 

The quality of your content may not be as effective if it is not relevant to your audience. I will give you tips for creating content that converts

User Intent

Every online query leads to an online search. It is important you know how the user intends on using the content. Is it for their own knowledge or research for more professional use? Such as work reports or course assignments? Are they using the content to pass time or to get entertained? Knowing the user intent can help you create content that converts more users.

Keyword List

A keyword is a word that acts as the key to a cipher. It is a word of great significance to its user pertaining to their search for answers. These are the words that people think about and in turn type into search engines to find what they are looking for. 

Your content serves a target market that has the same need and seeks answers for it. Know the words most relevant to your target audience and use them to create content that converts more followers.

Solve A Problem

Know what your audience is trying to solve and solve their problem for them. What condition is your user in, and how urgently are they trying to solve it? Know how urgently the issue needs to be solved and deliver a solution that solves the issue in the relevant and appropriate time frame.

Read The Tone Of The Room

A target audience could determine the tone that you take when trying to address them. You cannot address an Afrobeats audience with Rhumba terminology. You cannot address Bankers like they are Doctors. Each of these fields has jargon or special words of expression that are common in communication. Also knowing if it is necessary to be more casual versus more intellectual or professional could be the difference needed in creating content that converts people that come across your content.

Be The Voice Of Authority

Often times if you focus on producing relevant, consistent content for your community, you can begin to be seen as a voice of authority on the topic. When users return to your platform whenever they seek a solution that is common in your target audience, they will automatically start seeing you as an authority voice that they refer others to.

With great power comes great responsibility, at this level, you will also need to ensure that your voice represents the majority of your target group by being accurate and well researched with examples and scenarios.

This is how to create content that converts. What content do you currently create? Share your link below and share your target audience with our community of African freelancers.

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REVIEW: International Writing Gigs For Freedom With Writing

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