Freelance Writing Jobs: Types of Content You Can Write from Home
If you’ve been pondering working online from home as a freelance writer, the various types of content that can be produced can seem slightly overwhelming at first. There are numerous types of online nonfiction content that a writer can create, and it makes sense to have a basic idea of what you’d like to specialize in before you get started so that you can market yourself appropriately.
SEO Content: This content typically consists of short articles that webmasters purchase to publish around the internet linking back to their main websites. Sometimes they aim for hyper local content, other times they’re just seeking basic information about the product or service that the websites they’re building are about.
Product Review Lists: This content is often longer and tends to be a summary of the reviews available for a type of product online. For example, the Top X Baby Strollers of 2018. Webmasters then use these articles to build affiliate sites, making a commission each time the products are sold from someone clicking on their link in the article.
Web Content Pages: General pages of content that will go inside a website. These can be location themed, subject based, or broken up by some other category.
Blog Posts: These often take a more personal tone and may include the writer’s personal experience with a situation.
Product Descriptions: Short pieces of content that describe an item and will be used on a website or in a product catalog. Many online retailers order these descriptions in bulk from freelancers, often through brokers.
Newsletters: Email newsletter content for a webmaster to send out to their mailing list on a regular basis.
Social Media Posts: Text content designed for Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
Short Reports: In depth reports about a topic, often designed to be used as a giveaway for an individual to sign up for the marketer’s newsletter or mailing list. Often these are around 1,500-2000 words and may include pictures or graphics.
Ebooks: Longer pieces of content, up to 50,000 words, usually ghostwritten for marketers who will then resell them as their own at a premium rate. These may require quite a bit of time and research to produce.
This list only includes content writing, without touching on copywriting, fiction writing, or other types of writing that an individual may want to break into, such as creating their own websites, PLR content, or selling books for Kindle.