Pros
Right out of college, I had no portfolio to land any of the specialised writing jobs I wanted. Working for The HOTH is best treated like a freelance internship — build your portfolio and get paid doing it, but don’t expect great pay. Honestly the training alone makes it worth starting your freelance journey with The HOTH. You have to be good at teaching yourself, but they give you adequate documents and there’s a great community in the Slack channel and Facebook group to help you every step of the way. You learn enough about SEO in a short amount of time to boost your resume immensely. It’s also pretty fun working for them. They’re super reasonable about vacations and life emergencies.
Cons
The pay is not sustainable if you’re not great at pumping out articles. If you can work fast, you can make a lot of money. But this is not the kind of job you wanna put tons of research and meticulous care into. I made the mistake of doing this and I ended up only making about $10/hr because of it. If you can spit out decent quality content in a short amount of time, this is for you. Otherwise, treat it as a growing stage and build your portfolio (remember to de-index links) and figure out what your niche specialty will be.