Freelancehomewriters.Com Warning

Freelancehomewriters.com is a site promising nearly unlimited writing opportunities that translate to hundreds of dollars per week, up to $5,000 per month. I spotted the blind ad on Craigslist, calling for writers to get paid $25-$45 per article. The ad doesn't say much more, so I sent an e-mail.

I received a form response directing me to freelancehomewriters.com. The home page says you can make up to $50 per hour blogging and $25-$45 per hour writing. I wondered, Gee, this is sure a jump from the ad's claim of $25-$45 per article. To read more information, the site requires you to put in your first name and e-mail address, which I did.

I was then taken to a "job description" page. This page explains how businesses need their web sites to have as much content (as many pages) as possible, to increase the odds that a page from their site will show up in Google search results, and thus get clicked on, bringing traffic to the site. This makes sense.

I was getting the impression that freelancehomewriters.com was some kind of database of tons of businesses that need to fill their web sites with content, to increase odds of showing up in search results. Freelancehomewriters.com explains that these businesses are too busy to fill up their web sites with content, which is why they will happily pay home-based writers $10 per article.

Or $20 per article. One of the do-the-math examples of how much money a writer can make uses a $20 per article example. The first example is write just three articles per day at $10 per article, and make an easy $210 per week. Freelancehomewriters.com kept harping on the fact that writers need NOT have writing skill or even a college degree or anything like that. Freelancehomewriters.com goes as far as saying that even an 8-year-old child could do the writing.

That's when I really began getting suspicious. What business in its right mind, in an attempt to amass as many web pages as possible or as much content as possible, wouldn't care if the writing coming to it is pure crap? What freelancehomewriters.com essentially says is that your 8-year-old child could do the job.