We require a freelancer who has experience with inputting and editing content through WordPress. A strong command of the English language is essential and a knowledge of fishing is desirable.
About us Fisheries Ltd is a digital publishing company. The website was established in 1998 and is a well respected and well-known site containing details of more than 100 fishing venues throughout the UK. The site currently attracts about half a million sessions per year. The site has built its reputation on excellent editorial content being written by anglers for anglers.
The site is currently going through a major rebuild and will be launched in late spring 2021. Over the next 12 months we are looking to research and build a comprehensive database of fisheries and fishing holidays in the UK. It is anticipated that there are around 5,000 individual fisheries (day ticket and private venues) in the UK, plus holiday venues. The objective is to grow the business from 100 paying customers to 1000 over the next 3 years.
Outline of requirements The work would be done remotely and access would be given to the tools required. You will need a Google account with access to Google docs. The current website which can be seen here on fisheries/co/uk has around 120 fisheries with detailed information and photos on each venue. The new website, which is in development will also have this information and the primary purpose of this project is for copying, proofing and editing the content from one site to another.
The work involved will include ------------------------------------
- Populating all the database fields accurately and setting up the new venue on the new site using WordPress. Good knowledge of WordPress is essential. - Choosing the best images and uploading them, some basic editing of images may be required like cropping and resizing. - Adding metadata to all images and content and to ensure best practice SEO is followed. - Proofreading content, correcting errors and ensuring the content is fresh, readable, scannable and broken up with relevant headings - Add in contextual links to the content, researching and finding websites that match the link descriptions - Choosing products from our Amazon affiliate account and populating these in the pages.
An understanding of the following would help ------------------------------------
- On page SEO and how to optimise pages, targeting specific keywords and ensuring best practices are followed. - Experience with using Yoast, Google page speed checker and an understanding of how to keep pages fast. - An understanding of fishing, freshwater angling on rivers and lakes in the UK - previous angling experience is desirable.
Once launched the site will be growing and new venues will be listed each month. We may require further help ongoing, so this job could turn into regular work.
All applicants should have a strong command of the English language and excellent grammar skills, as well as experience with using WordPress.
