Find ghostwriting jobs using Indeed.com

This is a good description of the Indeed.com search engine in a nutshell.  The idea is that you use the site to search through the thousands of job openings that are advertised online. But since you can choose which jobs you want to look for, it is just as valuable for writers looking for ghostwriting jobs as it is for everyone else.

So let's see how you can make the best use of it.

You will see you are asked to search for a specific job in a specific location, but you don't have to fill in the location if you don't want to. This is great because as a ghostwriter you can work for people all over the world if you want to.

So begin by typing a keyword into the first search box. Think about the kind of jobs you want to do and search for each keyword in turn.  Here are some suggestions you could try:

1. Blogging jobs
2. Bloggers
3. Ghostwriters
4. Article writers
5. Ebook writers

You get the idea. It's worth searching for as many options as you can, because the Indeed.com search engine will bring together opportunities from right across the web.

When I first started searching for online writing jobs like this, I used to get really annoyed that oDesk jobs kept on coming up in the results. Now I am sure some writers use and love oDesk, but I am not one of them.

So I tried typing in 'ghostwriter -odesk' instead of just ghostwriter.  And it did the trick. None of the results I got back in my search involved the oDesk site. And that was exactly what I wanted. Think about this whenever you want to avoid seeing jobs from a particular site - whatever your reasons might be.

If you scroll down to the bottom of your first results page on Indeed.com, you will see you can set up an email alert for every search term you require.  All you have to do is enter your email address and you will receive a daily email from Indeed.com that contains a selection of all the jobs listed that day for the search term you have specified.

I have about five of these searches emailed to me every day, and it has saved me a lot of time in looking for new jobs. I have found a few new ghostwriting jobs using this method as well, not to mention a few new websites that are worth exploring in more detail.

So try Indeed.com for yourself to see whether it could help you enhance your own writing career.