Editor for The Blogsmith
Freelance B2B Technology Blog Editor
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The B2B Technology Blog Editor will help produce SEO blog content for The Blogsmith’s clients as a proofreader and copy editor. You’ll work with a team of writers to fine-tune their content for clients across multiple rounds of editing as necessary. You will occasionally work with virtual assistants, an account manager, and a project manager to accomplish relevant tasks.
Assignments are typically 1000+ words in length.
You can work whenever you want as long as you’re able to respond to team communications within 24 hours on Monday – Friday and can consistently meet deadlines without micromanaging.
Why The B2B Technology Blog Editor Role Matters for The Blogsmith
The Blogsmith helps B2B technology companies connect with their target audience via search.
You’ll be helping us edit relevant, high-quality content that matches the technical use of SEO keywords with the fulfillment of expectations based on the assumptions behind search intent. Understanding search intent involves asking why someone used a certain keyword phrase and predicting what they’d expect to find when clicking through on a relevant search result.
The editor helps ensure that writers have found the right balance between incorporating SEO requirements while ultimately focusing on the needs of the human reader over search spiders. After all, it’s the human reader who will ultimately help us achieve conversion-related business goals.
Here’s the bottom line:
We don’t just want to create content for content’s sake — we explore topics with a unique stance so that we’re providing a unique benefit (compared to similar content) for anyone who reads the work we produce.
In the interest of ensuring our content is unique, and high-quality editors will need to:
- Proofread for grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- Edit for clarity and communication, with a focus on simplicity.
- Read through each piece to ensure proper flow and agreement.
- Ensure SEO keywords have been implemented properly. Editors also need to be able to finesse keyword usage within articles, so that they are exact, but not awkward.
- Run each article through anti-plagiarism software (provided by The Blogsmith), and make changes to written content to ensure it’s original.
- Review assignment briefs to make sure all client requests have been included.
- Compare articles with sources and top related search results to ensure content is truly unique, rather than re-worded.
- Check sources and linked content to verify that information is contemporary and trustworthy.
- Review content to make sure any products or services recommended by writers are good quality.
- Ensure that everything asked for in a content brief has been addressed
Technical Skill Requirements
- Expert knowledge of American English spelling, punctuation, and grammar. A degree in English, communications, or journalism is ideal, but not required.
- Familiarity with AP style (or a willingness to learn).
- Experience editing for a publication that’s not your own. You should be able to follow our company style guide, as well as any additional style guides provided by clients.
- Demonstrated experience with online content writing and/or editing process and formatting. It will be hard to be successful in this role if you’ve never created or edited an article for the web, even if you have some editing experience.
- Comfortable formatting and working collaboratively in Google Docs.
- Understanding of a wide variety of topics, particularly those that are technology-related, including WordPress, e-commerce, and SEO. Additionally, some knowledge of digital sales and marketing concepts will help you understand our clients and the writing process.
Soft Skill + Availability Requirements
- Good communication skills: You’ll be working with fellow team members to accomplish tasks related to producing great content. We have tight internal and external deadlines, so timely responsiveness during the workweek is necessary to work on this team.
- Good interpersonal skills: In addition to being able to communicate clearly, editors should be good at managing relationships with the writers they work with. We encourage editors to give extensive feedback to writers, and it’s helpful if you’re able to do this in a way that is kind and considerate but without dancing around issues. A straightforward approach is best for ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Problem-solving skills: When there’s an issue, Blogsmith teammates use their resources and each other to get it solved before it becomes a bigger issue. You’ll have access to our intranet in Notion that contains answers to most questions.
- Organization/planning skills: A successful editor won’t wait until their edits are due to get in contact with a writer that hasn’t submitted their work yet. Editors should be able to manage their task load and ask for help if they need it.
- Write “Hi Maddy” (in addition to any questions or comments you have) at the end of the application form so that I know you’re paying attention to detail.
- A passion for writing and editing: In order to create great content, the whole team needs to take an interest in the process. You should have a genuine interest in creating great content that’s not only grammatically correct but formatted for optimum clarity and readability.
- Attention to detail: You’ll be expected to follow a detailed style guide and consistent enforcement of this style guide is necessary for producing high-quality content.
Benefits and Compensation
- $20/hour for 10+ hours/week (with the potential for more).
- Work 100% remote.
- Work whenever you want while meeting weekday deadlines for planned assignments.
- Weekly payout via Gusto so you don’t have to pay any processing fees or Wise to minimize foreign transaction fees.
