Why Writers Don't Make Money
Writers Hit Back: The Big Writers Strike
Writing for the web, and especially SEO content, may just be one of the most tedious and unprofitable jobs ever spewed out of the Jobs Machine. Knowing that your hard work will most likely never be read by anybody, except Google's bots, is equivalent to making love to a blowup doll.
The Jobs Machine is a contraption designed by an unknown inventor around the time when farming and prostitution reigned supreme to assign people their lifelong functions. Although some jobs are fun and lucrative for many of the machine's recipients, others have not had the pleasure to say the same.
Jobs equivalent to SEO writing include truck-driving, coal mining, pig farming, gas attending, being a college mascot, and bouncing people at bars. The one disparity, however, that differentiates writers from the abovementioned professions is talent. Being a writer means that you probably have a God-given gift; an aptitude molded over a number of years. But why is it that talented internet writers don't get paid enough?
Problem 1: The Internet
The internet has attracted a number of unethical moneymakers (who will sooner or later do their time). Until the medium becomes regulated, you can be sure that the internet will remain the biggest sweatshop in the world. If you are writing articles at $3 a piece, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Problem 2: "Will Write for Food" - Free Market Economics
Online companies, especially the ones that employ Black Hat SEO tactics, love to use writers from the East. These writers are willing to work for $5 a day since their respective countries' standard of living is much lower to that of the west. Simply said - the internet is incompatible when creating professional standards for a globalized world.
Solution: A light at the end of the tunnel
As Google and other search engines up their game, granting ranking only to those who create quality content, many so called writers just won't cut it and will simply wither away, giving way to those who can. Essentially, regulation is being implemented by raising the bar and Google has become the dictator.
Grow some Balls!
When quality content becomes imperative for the internet and toilet-writers are eradicated and only vestiges remain, the wordsmiths left (the ones that can actually write) will have to analyze their skill set and sell themselves for what they are worth. Writers who have gone through universities or expensive writing courses will have no choice but to ask for appropriate payment every online employer needs to understand that they will have no choice but to pay for quality.
If you are writer who has a college degree in writing and is still working for $3 an article in 5 years time, you have the following choices:
- Go wait tables you will be utilizing your time far more constructively!
- When the first cold fronts hit your city or town, walk naked in your backyard (if you have one, a park will be sufficient) for 2 to 4 hours whilst eating lemon sorbet. When you are done with your stroll, take a cold shower followed by standing in front of your air con for 45 minutes; make sure you press the button with the snowflake illustration perhaps that way you will get irreversible pneumonia and never write, or do anything for that matter, ever again.
- Dance With Lady Luck - Spend what little money you have dancing with lady luck at an online casino of your choice... Sadly the odds of financial success are greater there than in a career of SEO writing...
- Move to Vietnam - I warmly suggest that writers grow in confidence the time has come where we can call the shots for a change; if companies want good quality, they will have to pay for it.
But the change will ultimately only come from within we as writers have to fight for it. If you believe that you are being exploited for your skills, simply boycott the putrid system, write literature for fun and wait for the time of your calling.
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