Question for content writers !!

Content plays a very important role to rank any website. Then why content writers don't make their own website and make more money as compared to writing articles.

Who says they don't?

Most do. But it can take a long time for a website to start earning a decent income. In the meantime, lots of people will write for easy cash.

I write tons of articles for my websites.

For the same reason that people choose to get a job instead of starting their own business.

Maybe they already have one or more websites that give them passive income, and are looking for a new income stream? or maybe they got too good at writing content and consider that they can earn more by writting content for others.

A lot of them do, also, it's not just content that makes websites rank, and they need money to fund the other things

It's the internet.
A place where you can start a failed
business for $20.

People don't realize all the work and investment
it takes. Those who do often work freelance while
building out their business model.

Because they don't know SEO.

Simply writing content will be hit or miss with rankings unless you know what you're doing.

Many writers I come across still have mentality from 2005. SEO optimized content = stuff it with keywords.

Its for additional income or they can earn easily by writing content

Most writers I know own a handful of blogs
Others are merely resellers

I can only speak for myself and tell you I create my own content, but not in the same form as my clients.

Most people who order content-creation work from me usually order articles, blog posts, sales letters, and web copies.

The content that I produce for myself usually takes the form of books, seminars, tutorials, and even YouTube video scripts.

So, yes, the skillset that one needs to deliver the kind of experience people searching for in Google can be carried over to different forms.

These forms can range from videos to books, seminars, courses, and other types of products.

I produce a lot of those for myself. For everything else, I focus on my clients' needs.

This produces a win-win situation because the more I research the niches I cover for my own books and seminars, the better value I can provide for people looking for blog posts and articles on similar topics.

I do write articles to my own site and for others too, its an additional income.

Thomas6 said:

Content plays a very important role to rank any website. Then why content writers don't make their own website and make more money as compared to writing articles.

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Hello,

"If you want to be successful as a freelance writer, you absolutely must set up your freelance writer website and optimize it for your niche. And the underlying message always seems to be that if you don't have a website, you'll never be seen as credible to potential clients."

warriorsam53 said:

For the same reason that people choose to get a job instead of starting their own business.

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I agree with warrior's answer and would just want to expand on it to help it sink in if nothing else...

The conclusion that draws out this curious question is very valid so it might help to imagine a similar scenario and how it might apply, for instance: If I love to cook, I might want to open a restaurant. I can either go to culinary school or jump right into trying to open one (if money wasn't an issue AKA the 'cost of entry' was similar to starting one's own website) whereas another option, aside from culinary school; would be to get a job as a line cook to build my experience, to learn the business, to fill in the blanks of what I knew I didn't know yet or in some cases, because I would discover there was more to it that I didn't know. Then, when I feel confident and I know enough or think I know enough, then I might go give it a try or I'll realize along the way how much more I've yet to learn or would feel I'd need to know about opening and running my own restaurant before being comfortable enough to be do it on my own. For instance, I might be exposed to managing beyond kitchen staff, the front of house staff (aka servers, hosts, bussers, etc.) where each one works differently, something I might never consider had I pursued the idea of opening a restaurant based solely on my passion to cook.

So to tie it more together, what you may be witnessing is simply a content writer explorer the world of content creation. In concept, it's simple to say that writing content for a website is arbittrarily easy to build website traffic, but some recognize the other steps necessary to build and maintain a successful website. Your question will naturally find answers for itself if you deicde to give either one of those curious paths a try...

Best wishes...and stay curious!

I speak for myself. I write content for clients and my websites. On the other hand, there's nothing suspiciously wrong if a writer writes for clients only and not own websites. Content-writing is just a fraction of the entire search engine optimization process. Experienced or professional writers don't necessarily have to be SEO experts.

Such a great question! I originally started out earning a bit of extra money as a content writer on freelancing sites such as Upwork, I did not own any websites at the time. So my only side-gig was content writing. I liked not having to bother with running a website, deal with hosting, etc etc. I liked the idea that my job was done once I handed in the article, and that my earnings were set based on the work. Even though I wasn't earning much, I liked it. The variety was fun too, I found it interesting writing on different topics. I never knew what I'd get next, it was fun. Eventually I did a lot of work on one topic after a site owner on Upwork hired me in his group of writers to write a lot of his content. Overall, the best part of being a content writer (at the time) was that I didn't have to take on the risk of the site earning zero income that month or whatever, I was getting paid for my writing no matter what.

After a couple of years of that, I saw where some of my articles were being placed and I finally realized "hey, I could do that type of thing too!" Initially I was a bit hesitant to start because of the risks, and also because it seemed like a hassle to have to deal with the back end of a website, but actually when I took the leap it wasn't a hassle at all. I did it in a niche topic I cared about a lot, so that really helped make the writing feel natural and gave me a reason to keep going with it. It was hard though to see how long it took before that site started making any income!

These days I actually like the other aspects of site ownership (coding, planning, etc) better than the writing aspect. But I love that I started out writing since it helped me hone my writing skills. If I feel unmotivated to write on any of my sites (this happens a lot ) I just remind myself I can do this, this is the type of writing I started out doing, so I can do this. I just have to get over that motivation hump.

Thomas6 said:

Content plays a very important role to rank any website. Then why content writers don't make their own website and make more money as compared to writing articles.

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Some content writers are not techy and hate technical seo related things, backlinking etc, they just love to write for onpage seo.

Which is perfectly fine, if they are good, they can easily win a lot doing only what they love = writing.

Copywriters are the same, they write sales letters but don't care about creating a product or things like that.

I have website and i also write content for other sites.
Writing has became my passion..