Social media is thriving 24/7, and people are talking about every topic imaginable. Social media is a major untapped resource for low competition phrases. The advantage of looking into social media for topics to write about on your website is that you know for a fact that real people are searching for these topics.

Social Media Research

Using Twitter For Research (Hashtags)

Using Yahoo Answers & Quora To Find Natural Questions

How Answer The Public Can Generate 300 Topics in 10 Seconds

Leveraging Pinterest

Why Social Media Can Be More Powerful Than Any Keyword Tool

Live Q & A Session

Outsourcing content is the #1 way to scale your website for more traffic and conversions. I recommend you start hiring with a writer to take over at least part of your publishing duties as soon as you have the budget for it.

Having writers produce content for you can free up more of your time to take care of other tasks, or just increase your rate of publishing, thus traffic growth. 

Here's how I publish jobs on UpWork to attract high quality, responsible, effective writers.

There are steps you can take to be a high quality client and set up your writer for success.

A failed writing project is probably your fault. At least that's the way I look at it. As a "client" (person hiring), you have a job as well.  

Not all writers are going to respect your business the same way do you. There are all types of people looking for freelance writing work, and you need to make sure you hire quality writers who deliver on time.

Here are some qualities I look for in writers and some red flags to watch out for.