Freelance writing is an excellent way to build a flexible business, earn extra money, or create a hobby that can supplement your income. You are always looking for the best writing opportunity as a freelance writer. There are quite a few ways to find freelance writing opportunities, whether you’re looking to expand your writing career by working from home remotely or desire to work in an office in person.
29 Best Freelance Writing Job Sites in 2022
Freelance writing is a great way to earn money with flexible hours. Following are currently the 29 best freelancing websites to search for clients and get paid to write.
- Fiverr
- UpWork
- ProBlogger
- Blogging Pro
- Contenta
- Guru
- FlexJobs
- People Per Hour
- Freelancer
- Indeed
- Glassdoor
- Writers Work
- Craigslist
- Mediabistro
- iWriter
- Koalabtree
- WriterAccess
- Freelance Writers Den
- Constant Content
- FreelanceWriting.com
- ZipRecruiter
- Who Pays Writers?
- Be A Freelance Writer
- All Freelance Writing
- Journalism Jobs
- Copify
- Pitching Directly To Ideal Clients
Don’t forget to stick around to the end and see some quick tips for making a more significant impact on your freelance marketing.
1. Fiverr
Fiverr is a platform where buyers and sellers come together and trade. To begin using Fivvr, register, provide basic professional information, and set up payment processing. Prior experience as a freelance writer is not necessary.
Fiverr services often include content writing, proofreading, video editing, voiceovers, graphic design, logo design, photography, website design, copywriting, and other projects. One of the advantages of working on Fiverr is that massive volumes of work are available. Because many freelance writers use Fiverr to compete for writing jobs, make sure your profile is comprehensive and compelling.
The downside to Fivvr is numerous freelancers submit subpar work, so many companies, and entrepreneurs look to other platforms to find their freelancers.
Unfortunately, Fivvr is typically where potential clients go to find cheap work. Because of that, they often struggle to find quality work.
2. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a powerful networking tool for professionals. Potential clients are always searching for freelancers, just as freelancers are always searching for potential clients. Plus, being free to use, and not requiring a piece of your commission makes LinkedIn an ideal networking environment.
Many potential clients on LinkedIn have large budgets and are actively looking for professional writing and editing. Even if you are starting as a writer, it is never too late to make your presence known.
LinkedIn is a great place to optimize your profile to be an online resume that works well when optimized. It also offers a variety of groups you can join and network in to find clients, much like Facebook does, but with more professionals that don’t typically use Facebook.
Also, remember that LinkedIn is a social platform. You should actively build a network and connect with your ideal clients. LinkedIn also provides you with a space to write articles and link to past publications. Having samples ready for potential clients to review will also be beneficial to display examples of your skills.
3. Upwork
Upwork is one of the most commonly suggested freelance writing websites in various entrepreneur support groups as a place to find quality freelance writers. It is a platform where businesses hire more experienced freelancers. It is also typically the next place to look when entrepreneurs can’t find quality work on Fivvr. If you are new to freelancing, Upwork still gives you access to many opportunities, especially if you optimize your profile correctly and create a good portfolio.
Upwork allows you to set an hourly rate and off custom rate. Employers need to pay in advance for a writing job. Still, the freelancer won’t get paid until after completing the project.
4. Problogger
Problogger job board is a website designed for writers looking for remote writing jobs. The competition for writing work on this site is more intense, with potential clients expecting a much higher quality than other freelance platforms.
One of the best things about this site is that it is easy and simple. The process of writing something is straightforward. Before creating a resume and applying for a gig, you must register as a candidate.
The downside to Problogger is there are fewer opportunities for writing because it isn’t as widely known.
5. Blogging Pro
Blogging Pro is a freelance writing website that offers more than just content creation opportunities; it also provides freelance journalism, editing, magazine writing, and copywriting.
Blogging Pros is excellent for providing social media content, stock marketing, news, and celebrity writing options. If you are a busy freelancer, this job site is perfect as it will let you know within 24 to 48 hours whether you are approved or not.
A valuable benefit to using Blogging Pro is their education services to help independent writers produce engaging blog posts and referrals from previous customers.
6. Contena
Contena is another quality website to search for freelance writing work online. They provide a built-in academy to help you contract more writing clients and referrals and manage your existing clients.
It is an excellent option for advanced writers looking for high-quality clients, but it does come at a cost.
Contena is not cheap to join, requiring a $497 annual membership fee.
While you may receive the same advantages on other job boards for free, Contena will help save you time searching for quality clients.
7. Guru
Guru is a Fivvr and Upwork competitor with unique features designed for entry-level freelance writers. You can create a free profile to bid on writing projects. It requires clients to fund projects before getting started, paying you based on milestones, hours worked, or per task, depending on the arrangement and conditions of the contract you take.
Guru is not the best freelance writing site for established freelancers.
The downside to Guru is that it has fewer job options than other options.
8. FlexJobs
FlexJobs is a freelance platform great for remote work where you can typically choose your work hours. It offers over 55 categories and subcategories, including content and copywriting, editing, and many more.
To use FlexJobs, you will need to pay a monthly subscription.
Like many other job sites, you opt to receive opportunity alerts, helping you to reduce the risk of missing any potential opportunities. It is an excellent choice for new and experienced freelance writers.
Aside from needing to pay a monthly subscription, the downside to FlexJobs is that it only focuses on US jobs.
9. People Per Hour
People Per Hour is a prominent freelance platform with various freelancers. It contains a lot of gigs specifically related to writing. It is the place to go if you can offer content translation services.
While People Per Hour is a good job site for beginners, it offers low rates.
To apply for employment with People Per Hour, create a freelancer account, search for the position you want, and offer your services.
10. Freelancer
Freelancer is a lot like UpWork: create a profile, apply for a job, and place a bid. Employers who post a project can invite multiple freelancers to apply. Then they will choose the proposal that works best for them.
Writing gigs in copywriting, ghostwriting, search engine optimization, digital marketing, and article writing are very common.
Freelancer has a mobile app and offers live chat features.
11. Indeed
The most popular job search website in the world is indeed.com. Media companies, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and content publishers frequently post writing gigs on Indeed.
The downside to Indeed is that the jobs posted are primarily part-time or full-time W2 employment type of work, so you’ll likely be sifting through many irrelevant job listings.
With so many jobs listed on Indeed, be sure to narrow your search to be as specific as possible with keywords such as content writer, SEO writer, freelance writer, or your particular writing niche (for example: “health content writer” or “culinary editor” or “freelance content writer”).
Indeed is a free site offering a range of jobs, and it can be time-saving if you know how to search efficiently. Though, as a content writer who does hire freelance lifestyle writers, this honestly isn’t the first place I would go to hire someone.
12. Glassdoor
Glassdoor is a popular platform for providing details about companies around the world. However, it has also evolved to become a hub for job hunters.
13. Writers Work
Writers Work is a job portal site that collects writing gigs advertised from across the web and manages them on a single dashboard, helping to streamline various job opportunities.
Writers Work is not a free website to use. They charge monthly or annual subscription fees but offer an easy-to-use site with many freelancing gigs, including copywriting, ghostwriting, content writing, journalism, and more.
14. Craigslist
Craigslist is one of the biggest sites offering job openings at local businesses. Suppose you’re interested in working with local companies and entrepreneurs who aren’t as savvy with navigating unfamiliar websites. In that case, Craigslist might be an excellent source for finding clients. Whether you are looking for a permanent, part-time, contract, or freelance position, you may be able to find various job openings.
15. Mediabistro
Mediabistro is a less trendy job site, occasionally offering freelance work and remote jobs. It is not as up-to-date as other sites; however, it still contains freelance writing opportunities with good salary packages. Mediabistro also provides a network that helps you to connect with other media professionals.
16. iWriter
iWriter is an excellent platform for finding online freelance writing jobs, providing you pass a short writing test. Once you pass the writing test, you can choose to apply for various listed gigs. As with all platforms, earning positive reviews will increase the value of your writing skills, making them more desirable.
iWriter offers writing jobs such as articles, rewrites, product descriptions, eBooks, and blog posts.
The margin of payment is 65% for each article. However, the earning limit varies depending on your writing level and the length of the article you write. If you receive the job request, you can receive 70% of the article cost.
17. Kolabtree
If you’re a scientific or academic writer, don’t miss Kolabtree. It is specially designed for people with experience in science and academia and has multiple projects uploaded daily. However, to qualify for Koalabtree writing projects, you must be a credentialed expert in the field you plan to apply.
18. Writer Access
Writer Access is an award-winning online writing job site that connects thousands of customers with writers, copy editors, proofreaders, and translators with businesses, entrepreneurs, and agencies.
This site is one of my favorite places to hire freelance writers and where I spend most of my time working as a freelancer.
Writer Access does vet their writers, so you should expect to take part in a writer proficiency test when applying. It is free for writers, and you receive 70% of the fees charged to the client (much more generous than many other options).
19. Freelance Writers Den
The Freelance Writer’s Den is a famous community for full and part-time freelance writers, run by a well-known blogger Carol Tice, and has 1,400 active members. However, Freelance Writers Den requires a $25 per month membership fee, which allows new writers to join twice a year. You can get help from writers worldwide 24/7 on this forum.
20. Constant Content
Constant Content is among the largest platforms for ready-made content, connecting large companies such as Uber, eBay, and Walgreens. On Constant Content, you will find writing jobs such as freelance writing, custom content writing services, and press releases. It helps writers to sell their work and offers editors and proofreaders to provide detailed feedback to support writers.
21. FreelanceWriting.com
FreelanceWriting.com was created in 1997, dedicated to helping top-quality writers of all levels find high-paying writing jobs. They do use a rigorous writer vetting process that matches the freelancer with those needing to outsource projects such as blog posts, web pages, press releases, product descriptions, email newsletters, and whitepapers. Writers can create a free account, and enjoy a platform that is easy to use.
22. Twitter
You may be surprised to see Twitter on this list. However, I’ve seen many freelance writers and bloggers successfully reach out to corporations and blog owners to secure writing jobs. Often you can also find companies and blogs reaching out via Twitter posts and messages seeking referrals for various freelancers.
A few Twitter profiles to start following include:
23. ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is a job board, similar to Indeed, Monster, and CareerBuilder. It offers job searching for numerous positions, including a variety of writing jobs. Most of the positions available are W2 employment, but a great place to look if you’re ok with working as a writer either in person or remotely.
24. Who Pays Writers?
Who Pays Writers? provides a database of writing jobs from around the internet, detailing the price per word, the business hiring, the type of writing required, and whether or not they accept cold pitches.
Whether you use Who Pays Writers? to find your next writing job, you may find value in using it to research potential clients before reaching out directly to them.
25. Be A Freelance Blogger
Be A Freelance Blogger is a job board for writers looking to earn $0.10 per hour or more, or at least $50 per job. Many jobs are advertised for digital marketing, SAAS, landing pages, and blog posts.
26. All Freelance Writing
All Freelance Writing provides a job board for beginner and experienced writers, including rates for each listing.
All Free Writing also provides helpful tools for beginner writers, including rate calculators, word count trackers, keyword density tools, and expert tips.
27. Journalism Jobs
Journalism Jobs provides job listings and alert services to freelance journalists and reporters, writers, editors, and copy editors.
Journalism Jobs breaks down their listings into a variety of categories: media, television, newspapers, radio, magazines, newsletters, nonprofit, academia, educational, financial, technology, and other. Find jobs that work best for you by narrowing down whether you want to work remotely, full-time, part-time, or freelance, and even choose if there is a state you prefer your client to be in.
28. Copify
Copify is a job board for freelance writers, but you must apply first to be able to see the job board. Once your membership is approved, you can take writing jobs that suit you. Copify is unique in that there are no contracts or commitments, meaning no bidding or writing proposals.
Copify pays up to $30 per word, paying you via PayPal.
29. Know Who You Want To Write For and Pitch Directly to Them
There is nothing wrong with discovering websites, blogs, companies…etc… that look appealing to write for, and reach out to them directly.
Tips for Pitching Directly To Potential Clients, From a Blogger Who Hires Freelancers
Search their websites first, looking specifically for jobs, opportunities, freelance work, author requests, or whether they’re accepting guest posts. Look to see if that site has any requirements first. Looking for that website’s requirements helps to determine what will make your request stand out and be noticed.
**The following advice comes from my personal experience and numerous conversations with hundreds of other entrepreneurs and website owners who hire freelancers to help with content creation.
When you submit your pitch, be concise, personal, on-topic, and nonscripted.
Example: “Dir Sir/Maam, I have an excellent mutually beneficial opportunity for your website to post on your website” – emails like that go straight to spam for 99% of bloggers and companies. It doesn’t tell your potential client who you are, what you do, what your skills are, what makes you qualified or better than other freelancers doing the same thing, or the article you’re pitching.
Another example of what not to do is pitch an idea for an unrelated website or business. For example, one of my other websites is geared towards DIY household products and essential oils. That website is often pitched unrelated business and technology niche posts, which are sent straight to spam. Why? It is irrelevant content, therefore, not worth my time. On occasion, if the writing is compelling and professional, I’ll offer the post for a different website I own. Still, in 10 years of blogging, I have only received one freelancer request that has actually produced quality content.
Use a Professional Email Address
Stop being cheap. Use a professional email address, NOT gmail. It takes $8.88 per year from a domain host like NameCheap to secure your own domain and not much more to create a professional email address. This makes sense too if you decide to build your own website to host your writing portfolio.
Typically, when receiving an email from an @gmail.com email address, professionals mark it as spam almost immediately. Why? Freelancers who don’t take the extra 5 minutes to set up their own professional email aren’t taken seriously, and often produce the lowest quality content.
Subscribe to Grammarly Premium
While Grammarly’s premium subscription plan costs money (about $12 each month), it is well worth proofreading your work and emails before submitting them to your client or potential client. Submitting quality work requests sets you above your competition, even if it is an introductory email.
Quick Tips To Maximize Your Freelance Marketing Efforts
Be intentional with where you choose to market your skills. Don’t overwhelm yourself by trying to accomplish everything across all the available websites. Find one or two platforms and start there. Over time you can add more as you’re comfortable.
Sign Up for Muckrack
All writers should set up a free Muckrack profile. While often marketed to journalists, Muckrack is the perfect place for freelance writers to showcase their work.
Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
Keep your profile updated even if you don’t actively use LinkedIn for marketing efforts or seeking gigs. Potential clients are always looking for freelancers with your skills. Have your headline optimized for your preferred writing niche, with “freelance ___” also listed.
For your work history, add a particular feature for your freelancing business. Create a business page for your freelance writing business. You’ll be able to link it to your work history, showing your logo, and making your profile look more professional. Doing so will make your profile look more professional, leading website owners and managers to take you more seriously.
Also, add links to your publications for examples of your creations lower in your profile.
Before paying for LinkedIn ads, update your headline and work history titles to include relevant keywords such as content writer, manager, strategist, or marketer. Various forms of writing are involved in all these new jobs in a business context.
Track Your Portfolio
Often, you’ll be asked for examples of your freelance services by a potential client. The best way to respond is by providing a link to a portfolio.
Please keep track of all the work you do, whether it is free or paid. You can use Muckrack or LinkedIn for this task too. Either way, have a central location for your portfolio.
Take your portfolio up a notch by creating your own website and sectioning off different niches to make the piece of your portfolio you send to potential clients more optimized for their needs.
For example, it seems silly to send over an article about dog ownership you wrote to gain experience to a professional looking for construction or DIY articles and vice versa.
Once you have a portfolio created, go back to your LinkedIn and Muckrack profiles and link it to your freelance writing job space.
Always Provide Your Best Work, Even if It Is Free
As a blogger with multiple websites, nothing is worse than hearing from freelance writers desperate to build their portfolio, approve a topic, and receive 2,000 words of junk.
If submitting free articles is one of your methods to create a portfolio, give the article your best work. DO NOT, under any circumstances, cut corners by using AI content writing tools. And for all the love, make sure you proofread and edit your work for grammar, readability, and comprehension.
Every day freelancers send me (and nearly every blogger I know) horribly written guest post requests that are painful to read. I’ve read countless posts pitched to my email that lack comprehensiveness, contain terrible grammar, or are stuffed with random unrelated bits of info thrown together. The worst part: authors often claim their work is “SEO friendly,” showing me not many writers know anything about search engine requirements or keep up with the latest Google updates. Often these posts are unusable without extensive editing and rewriting.
Because of such prolific poor quality, the only guest posts I accept are from writers in my mastermind program, my clients, specific entrepreneurs I network with, and a few select writers who pitch me according to the guidelines listed on my guest post requirement page. All other requests dumped in my email inbox are typically marked as spam. If I feel compelled, I might offer them to write a sponsored post (to cover likely extensive editing costs). Most bloggers use the same process.
Join a Quality Mastermind or Networking Group
There are masterminds and networking groups for every niche of freelance writer.
If you can’t afford to participate in a mastermind, look for bartering opportunities with the owners. Perhaps they’ll barter partial or all of your participation fees for unpaid freelance work or administrative services. Or look for additional opportunities you can take on to cover your costs.
For example, I often provide website services for other bloggers and podcasters to afford the mastermind I’m in. And I built a website for a friend’s new skincare company in exchange for the full line of her new products. There are opportunities everywhere if you are creative enough to find them.
If you’re a writer building your website too, don’t miss seeing the blogging mastermind group I’m in. They’re the best-kept secret of the blogging and journalist industry. They offer personalized and group coaching to help you become a better writer and numerous guest post publishing opportunities, including to major news outlets like MSN and Associated Press.
Always Ask for Reviews and Referrals
Every single client you work with, whether you are doing paid or free work, needs to be asked for a review and a referral. Have them make a review on the same site they hired you on unless it was on Twitter; in that case, have them leave a review on your LinkedIn, and share it on your Twitter.
Once you start receiving reviews, link to your reviews in your LinkedIn work history where you have your freelance writing business listed.
Maintain Healthy Habits To Maximize Your Efficiency and Quality
Of course, being a healthy lifestyle advocate, I had to mention healthy lifestyle practices. Too often, writers spend countless hours sitting at a computer, making poor fitness and dietary choices. Make sure you’re not falling into unhealthy habits by being conscious of what you’re eating and taking time to move your body in some form of exercise, even if that requires a bike or treadmill desk.
Conclusion and Summary
If you need help finding an excellent freelancing writing job, check through the sites mentioned above, which are currently popular for freelancers and businesses wishing to employ freelancers. Stick with the one (or a few) that feels authentic to you, and give it a try. There is no shame in creating profiles on several sites and seeing which you like more. Sometimes you need to try different options to learn which is best for you.
Do not assume that you will immediately have work rolling in just because you have a profile on one of the sites mentioned above just because you have a profile on one of the sites mentioned above.
Be proactive by looking through the job boards, connecting with potential clients, building professional relationships, and building your portfolio.
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