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Offer Your Services to Other Websites

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A good means of earning some extra income, is to offer your services to other websites. There are various things which you can offer to do for other people, particularly if you are willing to work freelance on a self-employed basis (see our page on this here).

Many websites need people to try them out either before they go live, or just after an update in order to ensure that they are user friendly, and that all of the links and forms work correctly. It is easy to obtain a simple tool which will check all of the links on a website in order to ensure that they are correctly encoded, but unfortunately, these will not tell the owner if the links are pointing to a relevant web-page or web-site.

There are also plenty of websites which could be improved by the use of Flash, Perl, PHP, or Java scripts, so you may want to learn one of these languages for yourself - however, if you intend offering your services as a programmer in one of these languages, you need to be able to show relevant work which you have created yourself and therefore your own website is doubly important in this respect.

A company called Site-Reporter pay people a small amount to review sites submitted to them by Companies wanting to gauge consumer opinion on their website layout and content. If you are accepted as part of their site review panel, you will be paid a small amount for each website which is reviewed by you - the amount which you receive depends on the number of web-sites which you review (currently only £2.20 per site until you review more than 10 sites, after which it rises to £2.50 per site). Although you could offer your services independently, to perform this type of review, it is very difficult to get yourself noticed and to gain the type of reputation which you need.

The main problem with this service is that each site requires only a small number of people to review it and often, by the time that you receive an email from Site-Reporter about a new site for review, the places have already been filled. However, Site-Reporter do try to keep this process as fair as possible and thereby ensure that they use the broadest possible scope of people possible for each review, by altering the order in which reporters are told of new assignments as well as the time that they are published on their website.

However, for people developing websites who want to gauge public opinion before a website is made live, this can be an excellent means of obtaining the views of a broad cross-section of the community. The reviews which the site prepares for a publisher are easy to understand and are based on a series of questionnaires filled in by the review panel.

The other alternative is to offer your services as a website reviewer on your own web-pages, and for this, you will need to follow the advice we have provided on working freelance, including creating a good CV and a well-laid out website of your own. Finding contacts can be one of the most difficult parts and this is where schemes such as Site-Reporter and the Freelance Work Exchange come into their own. You can of course also use the internet as usual, and where you notice a problem, report it to the website owner and suggest that you check out the rest of their website for possible problems and improvements. We have certainly done this in the past and achieved a modicum of success.