The recent rapid expansion of the Internet has created job opportunities for writers.
Anyone who can write in clear, understandable English at the 6th to 9th grade level can make money writing online.
Previous writing experience is not necessary.
The Internet communicates by way of the written word.
Sure, there is audio and video in places and for certain applications, but the communication is still 96-98% by the written word.
Furthermore, for purposes of website ranking in the search engines, websites must have a great deal of unique content.
When you type a search term into Google, Yahoo, MSN or other search engines, they will give you search results back at ten per page.
They decide which ten are first based on their perceived "importance" of the website.
Now if you are selling anything on the Internet and want your prospective customers to find you, you need to appear on that first page.
So your website's perceived importance to the search engines is a matter of paramount concern and interest to you.
This website "importance" is calculated by complex algorithms, but the number of "pages indexed" on the website is a very important factor.
Pages indexed is what the search engines' web-crawler robot programs count on each website.
They actually go and look.
To count, a page must be there and it must be unique.
Unique in the sense that it is not found anywhere else on the Web.
It's almost impossible to cheat on this point.
The Internet is computer based and most parts are available to view from any other website.
A given page can be compared to millions of other pages in seconds, duplicates are quickly found and disqualified.
So it does no good to put up copies.
You have to have UNIQUE content.
The only way to generate unique, intelligible content is for some human somewhere to write it.
Also, to be intelligible the writer must be writing in his native language or one that he is first-language fluent in.
You can't farm it out to China! Thus the Internet has an insatiable appetite for unique written copy, for articles, for website content, for ads for anything that is readable and takes up space on websites.
And anyone who can help generate this website content can find work and make money writing online.
If you can write at the 6th to 9th grade level and would like to make money writing for the Web, you certainly can! The demand is not for literary works but for lots of readable text, fast! If you have no writing experience, that's fine.
The Internet is a new frontier, another world.
Look into it and see if it is for you! If you would like more information about making money by writing online, try the resources below...