In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use writing sites to find jobs. Here, we're going to look at 2 sites, Freelancewriting.com and The Guide to Online Guidelines.

First off, we're going to look at Freelancewriting.com. At first glance the site seems overwhelming as there's so much information here, but we're only going to look at one section, so that should simplify things. (Note that the site is going through a renovation, so don't be surprised if the look of the interface changes from page to page.)

1 Directly under the logo, I'll click on Writer's Guidelines, which brings up the Magazine Guidelines Database in the main window. As I scroll down the page, you'll see a wide variety of categories. Clicking on any of these will bring up a list of magazines. Since my background is in computers, I'm going to choose Technology. As I scroll down the list, you can see that there are many options. One that catches my attention is about Gaming, so I'll click on that.

2. On the page that comes up, you'll get a short summary of what the magazine is about, as well as a link to the Writer's Guidelines. Quite often you'll find that the summary and the Writer's Guidelines are the same, but occasionally they're different.

I recommend clicking on both links regardless and copying all the data into Notepad. When you do so, make sure you use a separator for each section. Also, save each search by subject and save each subject separately. That will make it easier to keep track of when you're sending out your queries later.

3. The next site we're going to look at is the Guide to Online Guidelines. This is a basic directory, simple and unadorned. There's no search function, so if you want to find something, you'll have to scroll through each group of listings. When you find a magazine that you like, click on it for more information. As with the other directory, copy the Writer's Guidelines into a Notepad document. Be aware that this site hasn't been updated in a while. Some of the links are broken and some of the magazines have simply ceased to exist.