Freelance Trends For 2024
It may be a bit early to start predicting where freelancing will go in the next year considering how fast AI is changing the landscape. But any freelancer who has been working in 2023 knows that this has been a crazy year when it comes to freelancing and finding work. The huge increase in remote work, the rise of AI, and ever-changing SEO requirements have created a perfect storm of changes that are going to have some big impacts on freelance as we know it in the year ahead.
Longer, Well-Researched Articles
For many years the ideal length of a blog post or article was between 800–1,000 words for search engine optimization. That’s one of the many reasons why the typical blog content writing job would include a few articles of at least 500 words but no more than 1,100 words. However, AI and changes in the way that Google ranks pages has changed the ideal length for content.
Now that it’s possible for content creators to spit out AI-generated content that is longer and more in-depth websites need to update their content strategy to keep up. Even though Google insists that article length has no impact on SEO score length does matter. The quality of the article depends on how in-depth it is, and in order to go in-depth on a topic writers need to write longer pieces.
