Steady Content

Long story short: Steady Content administrators do not care about their writers and will passively insult their writers. They do not answer questions. The only available instructions are sometimes ambiguous and convoluted, which wouldn't be an issue if they just answered questions.

Steady Content seems like a perfectly fine company at first, but I could tell there were going to be issues almost right away.
Whoever the administration may be, they pretend to care about their writers. They say lines like, "Learn how to write the way we want and become part of the team!" Except, how is someone supposed to learn when all you do is ignore direct questions? Instead of answering questions, they ask their writers to follow the instructions provided by their style guide and FAQs guide, both of which are not very informative.

I probably asked them six questions. Only a few of them were answered, but those answered questions were ones I already knew the answers to. I only wished to make sure I had it right before I wasted my time writing an article. Never once did they answer a question that I could not answer for myself. I asked some questions repeatedly. I never got an answer.

Towards the end they said, "We're unable to give this [my article] another chance. We only work with writers who are able and willing to follow instructions." Yes. They pretended as if I was unable and unwilling to follow instructions. Apparently, they didn't bother to realize the supposed instructions were not entirely present.

It was at this point that I asked my final question. I phrased my question in such a way that conveyed my dissatisfaction with the administrators. Every single time they sent my draft back for revision, they chose to not state what the problem was. Every single time I asked them what the problem was, they refused to answer. Now that they decided to passively insult me, I returned the favor. After reading the poor excuse for instructions again, I realized that I had swapped the use of 'keyword link' and 'hyperlink.' I am unable to read anything without jumbling up words and letters. It's a mental disorder akin to dyslexia that I clearly know I have but have never had diagnosed, for I can reasonably work around it with enough time. It's never been a problem until now since I had only ever interacted with reasonable people.

Getting back to the mistake I made, in addition to keywords, they required the phrase of my client's business to be stated in the conclusion. Since the use of phrasing to yield search engine results is the purpose of keywords, I assumed that it qualified as a keyword. Regardless, I had asked to make sure and added a proper keyword hyperlink beforehand. Guess what? They didn't answer that question either.

Finally, we come to today. Since Steady Content does not exactly fire their writers, my account was 'paused.' My last draft followed every single instruction laid out. I made sure to ask them about any uncertainty. Instead of realizing their mistakes, they claimed I was unwilling to follow instructions.

I was very excited to start with Steady Content, but quickly realized how stressful and confusing it could be. 

When they submit your work back to you for a rewrite, sometimes it is unclear what is to be fixed. Their writing guidelines are to be desired as there is lots of room for confusion. 

Sometimes the keyword counter would not count my keywords correctly and that often resulted in having to "fix" my work that did not need fixing. It ended up being a lot more time than I originally thought, dropping that supposed $20 an hour or so to less than that. 

Their support staff is hit or miss, and they can freeze your account in a second. They froze my account twice: once for submitting work incorrectly and because they thought I plagiarized. Nope! Never. I said goodbye to them. There are a lot of other companies out there that aren't as confusing, disorganized, and unfriendly. 

This can be a nice backup way to make some extra money, but often the time put in didn't make it seem worthwhile. Also, once accepting an article,  you only have 6 hours to complete it. That's certainly enough time for a 500-word article, but in the event you need to do something, it can be a bit annoyance. 

Started working for them in June, was fired on July 4th via email that did not say why, just listed a bunch of reasons it "could" have been - none of which applied to me, as far as I am aware.

ZERO feedback from the person I thought was my mentor in the company, and the one that hired me on. He pretty much ghosted me. 

I never had an issue with late payments, which was nice, and it always came through on Friday.

I was actually enjoying the work, and was slowly getting more comfortable with their literal 90 pages of rules, guidelines, formatting, etc, etc, etc, which changed often and sometimes differed from what the editors told me to do. But then got fired out of the blue with no explanation or chance to appeal or even get feedback so I know what to improve on.

They started off well.  People seemed polite, helpful and kind, and were eager to help me get started.  I got some great feedback after my first submission upon hiring.  After that, I got sidelined for a brief time due to health issues.  When I came back on and did my first two articles, I was literally terminated by email the next day with a message informing me "my account was paused" because "I did not fit".  No chance to revise, no explanation of what was done incorrectly, nothing.  Just, sorry, good luck in the future and goodbye.  Good riddance to them.  Plenty of others out there paying a penny a word anyway, so no real loss to me, save for the fact that they seemed to have steady work.  Ah well.  

This is a decent side gig, but you'll receive virtually no good or valuable feedback, and plenty of condescending, snarky replies from the editors. The worst thing about these mills is you can be dumped at any time, and often from a mid-20s nose-ringed purple-hair who doesn't know their butt from a hole in the ground when it comes to actual life, respect and integrity.

 If you're familiar with a mill opportunity, I would give it a shot. Just don't put yourself in a position where you depend on this income, as in the end, you'll be at the mercy of some overly emotional college graduate who has your livelihood in their hands.

I've been a freelance writer for nearly 14 years and was looking for more work. I signed up at SteadyContent and was quickly approved. I needed very minor revisions on my two trial articles, and everything was smooth sailing for two weeks. I had several articles quickly approved without revision requests. Then, I had three articles sent back for revisions, but they were unclear. This place lacks support for writers and has no style manual, so you're left to figure things out on your own. I decided to just stop writing for SteadyContent and feel happier for it. If you value your skills as a writer, look elsewhere.

The administrators here are super nice and friendly and will work with you. But you need to spend a lot of time understanding the difference between the different types of articles they have. If you keep making the same mistakes rather than learning from them, it's only going to be frustrating for you as well as them - right?  I love the writing work here. (And just to note - this is remote contractor work, not employment.)

It's a great place for freelance writing. You can work as little or as much as you want and there is plenty of time to complete each assignment you pick up. However, the systems they use to monitor and contact writers/editors needs some work. As a writer, you're depending on the preparers to do their job well before the article gets to you and it seems that there isn't a great system in place to ensure they do (just you complaining or fixing all their errors without pay). It is also very difficult to get in contact with their support team and they will hardly get back to you when you do.

The platform Steady Content uses is well organized and user-friendly with a large variety of writing topics available. Each job is individually priced based on the specific word count and provides all the details, sources, and format of the writing to view before claiming it. Feedback from editors and management is constructive and motivational as they dedicate themselves to high-quality results for their clients. They also eventually offer the option to become an editor for Steady Content as well.

I've been working as a freelance content writer and editor since 2008, and Steady Content/Agency Hub, is easily the worst content mill I've ever run across, and that's really saying something about how substandard it is! 

I think the top ones have good intentions, but when it gets to editing, there's nothing good to say. The style guide is pitiful and inadequate so they resort to sticking directions in the editing tool and order box, so you have to search for details on what's needed in several places.
 
Additionally, if you reach out with a question, there's no response at all. 

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