Using iwriter as a beginner

Hi there, I got my start with guru.com. I found it good to work through them and although the site may seem a little complicated now, it doesn't take that long to work it all out. This is a bidding site where you choose gigs and bid for them, which means that many others do the same.

Iwriter is a decent place to start. I personally never used it because of the low rates but if you just want to practice writing it is a good place to start. But, don't get stuck there. Once you are confident with your skills market your services on other websites and charge your own rates. Better yet, create your own website and let clients come to you.

It takes in between 1 and 72 hours for one of your articles to be approved/rejected on iwriter.

Yeah, I have been pumping out some articles every now and then. When you have less than 5 ratings you can only write 1 article every 40 minutes, even if that article is just 100 words long. Just focus on writing decent articles and you will move up ranks in no time.

Good luck!

That good to hear St Pierre.

Unfortunately, I haven't been having good experiences with them. I wrote 4 articles, 2 five star ratings and 2 one star ratings and then my account was banned due to low rating. And the funny thing about it is that my articles were rejected for no reason and they didn't even ask me to revise any of the articles.

The articles were not bad, no typos or spelling mistakes, and I did my best to include the keywords no matter how difficult they were to include in the article. But they were still rejected.

So, whatever. I don't plan on working for peanuts anyways.

One of the people who gave me a one star rating basically said the article was terrible and spun and didn't include his keywords which is just a blatant lie because the article was decent, included his keywords, and was 100% unique.

Maybe I am just unlucky and accepted the orders from clients who just rip off the writers and try to abuse the system. But, never the less, I won't be using iwriter again.

Just a little heads up. Don't get too comfortable, anyone can give you a bad rating and the support won't investigate. At least, The Content Authority has a team of support that reviews your articles before they are sent to the client.

So enough ranting. I just thought you guys should know that anyone on iwriter can give you a bad rating even if your article is perfect. And when you get a bad rating your account can be banned without any warnings. I didn't even get a email notification.

I'm glad you are doing a good start at iwriter. How about Fiverr, have you tried that too?

I would rather suggest you to not work for peanuts, there are thousands of bloggers who make good money. They get busy and they always wish for someone to write some articles for them. Even though they don't voice it fearing that the quality may go down if you can convince few such bloggers to hire you, you get a better pay for your work, there are other ways too

I signed up to iWriter today but there are no standard articles for me to write?

How do I upgrade if I cannot write any articles?

Anyone else having problems with this?

I don't like the pay rate right now, but I'm working slowly when I'm bored and I hope I can move up in a few days. Elite, or even Premium pay rates are way better, and I'll finally be able to have some money to invest in real IM.

Good luck to both of us.

Why not take all of that effort that you're using to to make a few bucks through a content mill and work on building up your own clientele instead? You could literally double or triple your current income. Plus, you'll be developing real relationships that can truly turn into something beautiful (and highly profitable).

Content mills are alluring for the fact that you don't have to work hard to gain clients. I get that. While you might make a few bucks quickly, you'll also pay a hefty price competing with the bottom feeders. In my opinion, you're only selling yourself short.

There was a time when I wrote for these places (when I first got my feet wet in the writing biz). Most (not all) of the people requesting content at these places are sharks. They have some of the most stringent requirements, yet are only willing to pay pennies on the dollar for it.

It's fine to use "the mills" as a crutch or during some extreme downtime, but I wouldn't invest all of my time writing for one when I can build up my own business instead.

If you're even half the writer than most of the people at these places, you can do better on your own!

That's great keep making content first and then make any post to other sites with related keywords on it to drive more traffic to your site.

I wouldn't limit myself to just freelance sites. You might get into a price war with some of the other writers. Start your own site and charge what you feel you worth. Add case studies, testimonials, and samples of your work to show prospects your worth.

Congratulation to you for taking the first step and taking action. If you have some budget, you might want to start off writing some articles for your own website and start growing your own list of subscribers. There are many reasons why many of the marketers keep recommending people to build their list.

i prefer service in WF for hire. Since we build relationship, you always has better price and quality

Ill check out iwritter too now lol thank you

I just try to stick to people that are above 50%. Some of my best clients have been lower however.

It's been a little while so I thought I would bump a little freshness into this post. Since I started writing on iWriter and several other sites a few months back, I have generated a solid stream of income writing online. Even as a full time college student I have found the time to write a few articles a week and make some good money. When I checked my writing bank account, I was actually really surprised to see how much money had accumulated. I decided to write a comprehensive guide on how I did this in a matter of months on my blog here - Writing Online For Money - Brain Food Writing

I love writing, and I know many of you do as well. I just wanted to share a little information that might help you guys make money doing what you love like me. It is mainly a post for beginner writers that explains how I solidified a foundation of income and generated loyal clients for my freelance writing. Hope it helps!

@St Pierre,

I think you'll be better off building an authority blog in a specific niche with low competition and use iWriter to add quality content to your site. Then you could promote and rank that site and I'm sure you'd make a lot more money from affiliate sales.

It takes a bit of time until you see results but this way you'll be building your own business instead of working for others.

If you decide to give it a try, make sure you build a list as well. That's one of the most important assets that you can build for your online business.

Just my 2 cents.

I was on the opposite side of iWriter. I wasn't a writer, but rather a buyer.

Every article I ordered (from a select few writers) was high quality/quickly delivered and because of that I stuck solely to those writers.

In the course of a year I ordered more than 1,000 articles from those few writers.

My advice.. be like them. Prove you can provide quality and respond quickly. If you can do that, you'll do great at freelance writing.

Even today I still only order my articles from those 3 writers.

Justin Lewis

I have never written for iwriter but I dpend a lot of money a week there.

I have always been really happy with the quality and although spending a little extra money is need to ensure you get the best writers.

Danny

I did a review of iwriter recently on my blog :-)