Freelance Writing Jobs: We’re More than Just Leads

by Deborah Ng

Since launching this new Freelance Writing Jobs network the other day, I received a flurry of emails. Most of them are from people who can’t find the leads, or feel the leads need to be at the top of the home page in huge, flashing letters making them easy to find. It appears an explanation is in order.

Where to Find the Jobs Leads

Back in the day (last week) one could visit FWJ and find leads and blog posts on the main home page. Now upon coming to our home page, our readers come to a paragraph of explanation:

Welcome to the Freelance Writing Jobs network of blogs. Your favorite bloggers are still here, we all have our own blogs now instead of playing in the same crowded sandbox. Below you’ll find a list of all of our blogs, along with the three most recent posts. Please adjust your bookmarks and feeds to reflect all of the blogs in the FWJ Network.

Still, I’m receiving email after email asking where to find the leads. After explaining that everything is on the main page many responded back that they didn’t even read the main page, they just looked for their lists of leads and panicked.

This is slightly upsetting because it tells me many of our visitors don’t really care to read our blog posts beyond the job leads. By building this network I was hoping to better showcase the different bloggers and their topics. I do hope those who just come for the leads will look around and bookmark or subscribe to the other blogs. Read more