Article Ghost Writing for Online Dating Site

An Australia-only online Dating site is seeking to grow its profile on the internet and requires some quality articles on the subject of love, dating and online dating, for publication both onsite and offsite. We require the articles to be written both for reader entertainment and education, plus also for the purposes of improving our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) rankings. Preference will be given to quality writers who have written for SEO purposes before. We are prepared to pay a reasonable rate for high quality work - we don't expect you to write for $3/article... BUT, please make sure you live up to the standard we are paying for... :-) We have an initial (trial) budget of US$200 to spend for this first project - please advise how many articles will be written for this amount. Keep in mind when bidding that we have a much larger ongoing budget for this work, and since this is the 1st job, we are essentially giving you a test drive. If you perform to our satisfaction, we will have plenty more work of this nature for you within a month. You can expect to get a request for at least another $500/minimum (possibly as much as $1000) over the next 3 months for this 1 website, so keep that in mind when placing your bid. ## Deliverables PLEASE NOTE: It is HIGHLY unlikely that anyone not from a natural English-speaking & writing country (ie. USA, UK, Canada, Australia, etc) will be given this work, due to past bad experiences we have had with ghostwriters from countries such as India, Pakistan, etc.... If you can PROVE your writing capabilities with some writing samples you can send us, we will consider you for the job, otherwise please do not apply... Project Deliverables: =============== As many QUALITY plain text articles as you can produce for the budget we have available. No formatting (bold, italics, etc) of the articles is required, but they must have clear paragraph breaks and all normal punctuation. Each article is to be a minimum of 500 words. The topic of the articles must be relevant to people interested in the subject of online dating, so things like Dating tips are always well received. Also, we need/want these articles to be genuinely INTERESTING and ENTERTAINING. If they are boring and/or just a pile of dating statistics being regurgitated, we won't accept them. Please - put some character into them. To give you a starting position, the following article keywords are suggested (since they are all keywords that are important to the website, so need to be included in the title and the body of the article): adult personals being happy children (a discussion on how dating effects the children) dating dating advice dating australia dating disasters dating men dating online dating service/s dating single dating site/s dating tips dating women divorce find love first date internet dating intimacy love matchmaking meet people online dating personals photo personals relationship advice relationship/s romance single parent dating singles soul mate/s true love Also, please note that since this site is ONLY targetting the Australian market, it would be beneficial to include the names of the major Australian cities and/or states in most of these articles: Capital Cities : States (Abbreviated / Full version) ------------------------------------------------ Perth : WA / Western Australia Sydney : NSW / New South Wales Melbourne : Victoria Adelaide : SA / South Australia Brisbane : Qld / Queensland Hobart : Tasmania Darwin : NT / Northern Territory Canberra : ACT / Australian Capital Territory By this, I mean you can mention 1 or perhaps 2 cities or states in your article once or twice - WHERE APPROPRIATE. An excellent example of where this might work well is when you are writing a commentary on a news item you have found through your research, related to Australia and online dating, etc. We would also prefer you don't put any major emphasis on other dating sites. A brief mention of the odd one to enhance the story is fine, but we don't want you actually promoting our competitors, if that makes sense. 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables): a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). The articles need to be written in a PLAIN TEXT editor (such as Notepad), NOT Microsoft Word. MS Word causes too many formatting errors when we copy & paste into our webpage development tool. No non-standard formatting options to be used in your text editor. Please read the following article regarding errors caused by MS Word & their Smart Quote system: <[login to view URL]> If your text editor does anything like this as well, please TURN OFF those functions. Articles submitted that break this strict requirement will be sent back to the author for fixing and payment will not be released until they have been returned, properly formatted to our satisfaction. Each individual article should be written and saved as an individual .txt file - NOT collected together into 1 large file. Give each file a name that is made up of the article title (eg: Dating Success Stories in [login to view URL]) Once all the articles have been completed, they can be zipped and sent to us in 1 batch. Lastly, all articles MUST be original works. We will be checking each article with copyscape to see if there is any obvious copyright concerns or plagarism. PLEASE write in your own words, without having to stoop to plagiarising someone else's work. If any articles are of concern, they will be returned to you for rewriting, or not paid for. Thank you and we look forward to seeing your bid. ## Platform The articles need to be written in a PLAIN TEXT editor (such as Notepad), NOT Microsoft Word.