Happy Wednesday, readers.
I am the luckiest freelancing lady ever. Not only have a lot of opportunities been coming my way in the past few weeks, but now I get to attend the SEM for SMB Conference (that’s Search Engine Marketing for small-to-medium-businesses).
Once you really start snooping around the online freelance writing community, you’ll notice plenty of opportunities for SEO writers. What is this SEO thing? Well, SEO stands for search engine optimization and it is a strategy businesses use to increase their ranking in search engines.
When you perform a Google search, how often do you flip to page two or three of the results? Yeah, I don’t do much flipping either, unless (confession time) I’m Googling myself. That’s what SEO is all about: getting your business to show up on that first page.
There are a lot of strategies involved in achieving that goal, and I am unfamiliar with about 93% of them. What I do know is I’m a competent writer and that’s what SEO firms are looking for. Learning the SEO part of it comes in time. And, it’s a relatively new field, so no one expects an SEO writer to know everything.
But, I am trying to learn more each day, which is why I’ll be attending the Thursday sessions of next week’s SEM for SMB conference here in Austin. If any of you fellow freelancers want to learn along with me, please let me know what questions you’d like me to ask. I will be there to represent. And, once the conference is over, I will post my findings here at Writer Friend Jen.
Cheers!
Jen
