Wanted - Web Content Writers - Dead or Alive

In years gone by, before there was corporate hegemony and while there was still value for an individual's sweat, there used to periodic gold rushes. Meaning that someone, a lone prospector, would strike gold and become stinking rich. His story would spread far and wide and people from all over would turn up in and around the area to try and get a share of the pie. Merchants would set up shops and motels and whore houses just to provide service to these prospectors. In short order, there would be a bustling town living off the money which these prospecters brought in. This is what was known as a gold rush.

My point with all this blather is that we're going through a similar period on the internet. People are staking claims to ideas, domain names and topics by any means. Locking up all these and getting search engine traffic, the online equivalent of gold, is the key to open the door to a flood of internet gold. But search engine traffic needs content, a lot of content.

Which is where we writers come in - And we're wanted today in all shapes and sizes.. So long as you can deliver results, i.e. web content - Nothing else counts. You don't have to prove that you have a Ph.D in the required topic to write an article on it. You don't need to go to the local library to borrow a find a book and sit up all night poring over some mundane theory written a long time ago by some dead guy about which you have no freaking clue. It's fast, it's easy, it's hot and in demand and does not need you to go to college or a university and spend a couple of years of your life. So what's the catch? Plagiarism.

When you have people writing articles about topics which they are totally unfamiliar with, there's a big chance that these amateur writers will take shortcuts and quote without attribution. Now, it's almost impossible in today's internet to catch a digital copyright violation, unless you spend a lot of money to safeguard and keep track of your content via search engines. So what happens is that most of the time, this plagiarism goes unnoticed. Here's my advice to all web content writers - Before you start writing an article, spend at least one full day researching a topic if you don't know much about it. Once you understand a topic properly - The concepts, the industry terms, the people, the rules and laws and history of the sector - Then you start writing about it. After you finish writing, check your article from top to bottom and delete/rewrite any sentence or paragraph which you feel should not be there.

Now, an established writer, who's basically an expert in his field of expertise may have a sarcastic smirk if he reads this article for wannabe web content writers. But lemme tell you pal - Your days are numbered. Today's the time of the amateur writer - Who's an expert on any topic his employer wants him to write about. And it can and is being done. Just do it properly, ethically and without causing harm to yourself, your employer and your employer's clients.

You want proof? Here you are - Today's Telecommute jobs ( Mostly writing gigs ):

Web content writer wanted - Click here.

Website writers wanted - Click here.

Good web content writer needed - Click here.

Web content firm looking for writers - Click here.

Gaming blog looking for writers - Click here.

Television obsessed bloggers - Click here.

Transcription gig - Click here.

Technical Writer - Click here.

Sports website copy editor - Click here.

Freelance writers wanted - Click here.

Have I made my point? If you're still not convinced, come back tomorrow and I'll have more web content writing jobs for you...