Freelance Writing: Earn with Article Re-Writing Service

Melanie L. Marten
Freelance writers can expand their online business by offering one of the most sought-after services: article re-writing. Re-written articles are used extensively by online business professionals and website owners for marketing purposes. Many internet business owners purchase article packs that should be rewritten before use. Article re-writing is both easy and profitable for freelance writers if you are aware of the common pitfalls and pay attention to specifications closely.

Article Re-Writing Service - Pitfalls and Problems

The number one problem with offering an article re-writing service in your freelance writing business is the matter of copyright. Some unscrupulous website owners may try to get you to rewrite other people's articles for their own purposes. This is plagerism and is against copyright rules. Before you agree to rewrite any articles, sales copy, or other written matter, you must be sure that the person requesting the service holds the copyright on the writing. This can be a challenge, but using online search tools can help you.

Article Re-Writing Service - How to Rewrite Effectively

Freelance writing professionals should never use article or content spinners to rewrite articles. These programs merely interchange synonyms within the existing article. The end result is usually an unusable pile of gibberish.

Instead of simply changing several words in the article, you must rewrite the entire article while preserving the readability, the information, and the keyword density percentages. Different clients will have different needs pertaining to keywords and content.

Begin by reading the entire article once through to get the gist of the writing. Then, go paragraph by paragraph and rewrite the text using different wording, sentence structure, and order. To maximize effectiveness of the resultant article, it must be at least forty percent unique to the original. This is the minimum percentage of uniqueness required to counteract non-unique content penalties imposed by search engines.

Article Re-Writing Service - Recommendations

Offering a freelance writing service to rewrite article can be a profitable venture. Because most online professionals need multiple articles, it is a good idea to offer affordable rates on packs of rewritten articles. This can be done in one of two ways. First, you can offer to rewrite five or ten articles for one price. Second, you can offer to rewrite one article multiples times. Since rewriting articles is easier than writing a brand new, original article, the prices should be lower than for other writing services. Offering both services will attract more customers to your freelance writing business.

Published by Melanie L. Marten

Melanie Marten is self-taught and self-employed. Besides freelance writing, she dabbles in website design and owns dozens of websites and blogs. Work is squeezed in between parenting two boys, homeschoolin...  View profile

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  • Barbiecrafts1/4/2010

    helpful information.

  • Aurora Aberdeen2/4/2009

    I'd imagine it's possible to due this, but a bit tricky when it comes down to the copyright issues. Good tips, though!

  • Susan Anderson1/12/2009

    I have done some of this before, the only problem I have found is that people really don't want to pay much for this type of work... the most I could get from getafreelancer has been $3.50 per....

  • Angela La Fon1/11/2009

    Very helpful points here.

  • Secretsides12/26/2008

    Excellent advice. I wouldn't like to do it because I am not that proficient at writing but love the idea.

  • Dirk McFergus12/20/2008

    That is a great idea. I used to ghost-write for lawyers but they wouldn't bother to write anything to re-write.

  • Tussy12/17/2008

    RE-writing? For as long as it is legal and one earns...

  • Crawdad Nelson12/16/2008

    I'm not sure what I think of the ethics of article re-writing per se. Doesn't that keep writers out of work? It seems dodgy on the surface. On the other hand it would offer me the chance to re-write things for money which has a certain appeal.

  • Tammy White12/15/2008

    Awesome article, thanks!

  • Alexa Pecore12/15/2008

    yeah, I'd definitly be concerned about copyright, but then again isn't everything written really just a re-formatted homogenized version of two or three other things we read somewhere (even the original ideas - if there is such a thing). Good topic and article.

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