Description
If you're a confident freelance writer who…
- Can balance SEO best practices with editorial flair
- Needs straightforward, consistent projects
- Is tired of pitching and managing multiple clients
This might be what you’re looking for!
What we're looking for...
As we elevate our content marketing capabilities, we’re looking for writers to help us execute our client’s content plans by:
- Following a brief and technical requirements
- Doing solid research so your writing is actionable (not fluffy)
- Understanding SEO best practices like internal linking, structural elements, search intent alignment
- Considering target audience language, pain points, and motivations
Who are we?
Authentic Digital is a digital marketing agency based in Auckland, New Zealand.
We have a 15+ year track record of enduring growth for ambitious SMEs and major brands.
For us, SEO means search experience optimisation.
Producing great content is an essential part of that ethos as we elevate our client sites to:
- Outclass competitors in the SERPs
- Meet customer search intent
- Be a trusted authority in the industry
What’s it like to work with us?
You’ll work with our Content Manager, who is responsible for creating and assigning your briefs, editing and providing feedback where necessary, and approving your draft.
After receiving your brief, you’ll be asked to produce a draft within 10 days, which you’ll paste into the draft document we’ll provide you.
Where required, we’ll provide helpful feedback where there are opportunities for you to apply learnings to other pieces.
We’ll try our best to give you advance notice of how many pieces we can provide you per month, but this is always subject to change based on evolving client requirements and topic approval.
Successful writers needing minimal edits will be prioritised for future work and particular niches.
Our base rate for standard articles, briefed at up to 1200w, is $180NZD.
For exceptional writers, there are opportunities to help us with more sophisticated content projects at a higher rate.
What will you be producing?
On average, you’ll produce SEO articles (product-focused and/or ‘how to’ pieces).
We have a broad range of clients, but the types of industries you’ll write about include:
- Automotive and Transportation
- Retail
- Finance
- Hospitality
- Home Improvement
- Real Estate
We’re driven by what’s required to answer search intent, but to give you an idea; most pieces will be ~1200w.
You’ll receive a thorough brief that includes:
- Client style guide
- Headers with word count allocations
- Direction for how to approach each section
- You’ll work in Google Docs, use Grammarly, and follow the client style guide.
Hiring process and how to apply
If we like your application, here's what will happen:
- We’ll do a paid trial (a section of a standard article for $80NZD)
- We might give you a round of feedback to see how you respond to guidance
- We’ll onboard you and assign 1-2 pieces to start off
- Slowly increase capacity based on mutual availability
- Important: You’ll be asked to share what you've learned as a freelance writer. Include the word “quintessential” in your response. This helps us filter out spam and check that you can interweave keywords naturally.