SEED.com is arguably one of the best-paying writing websites on the Internet, with payments for articles easily falling into the $25 to $300 range. It’s also one of hardest to write for, according to writers who submitted articles to their site in 2009 and 2010.

Unlike other writing websites, SEED.com’s approval process is, safe to say, mysterious. Although numerous writers (me included!) have had some articles approved there, SEED.com has never explained what writers should specifically do in order to increase their acceptance rate on the site.

But there are ways to get your articles accepted on SEED.com–perfectly honest, very-non-time-consuming ways, I might add.

It’s been over a week since International Freelancers Day (IFD10) ended–and now it’s time to put their advice into action. Here are 7 important tips for freelancers, straight from the speakers of IFD10.

Jessie Haynes recently explained the deets behind her own writing schedule, so I want to share mine with you: the High/Medium/Low method. With the High/Medium/Low Method, you simply rank your writing tasks in order, from highest priority to lowest priority. With the High/Medium/Low Method, you get plenty of flexibility, without the hassle of sticking to hour-by-hour schedules.

Networking just isn’t essential for improving your writing–it can get you actual writing gigs. Like in the “real” world, most online writing jobs aren’t advertised, and sometimes networking is the only way to get it. Establishing relationships with other writers can help you find writing gigs advertised “behind-the-scenes”, eliminating the work of finding a job on your own. Use these websites to kick-start your networking potential.

Don’t underestimate your worth. Online freelance writers have a plethora of skills–marketing, social media, web design skills–that many traditional freelance writers don’t have. Pimp out these skills to improve your monthly money-making revenue. Remember, your skills are worth money, and people are willing to pay for it (even the skills you don’t think are marketable). Here are 36 additional ways you can make more money writing online.

So what’s the real key to getting more clients? By letting your skills and qualifications be publically displayed on your own website. But clients can’t find you if your website is lost in the clutter of other competing websites. Alyssa Ast, co-founder of the WM Network, has some SEO and marketing tips that can make your website more popular with search engines.

Lisa Mason, author of How to Earn a Living Writing for the Internet, shares her strategies for speeding up the writing process. Although she says it may be difficult to learn at first, she assures writers that it will speed up the writing (and editing) process, reduce errors and allow a writer’s creative energy to flow, resulting in more valuable content.

Associated Content loves evergreen content because it brings a steady, but high, stream of traffic to their website, allowing them to make more money off their advertisements. Although you can accumulate a lot of page views for newsy items, once its expiration date passes, you stop accumulating those astronomical page views (and money). Evergreen content may be slow to start, but over time builds steam and generates more traffic than other types of content.

Using a picture of a flower, or worse, a photo of you in your pajamas, isn’t a great way to gain more clients. In fact, it will make them scatter faster than you can say “But my SEOs are really good!”.

Here’s something all writers need to know: image plays a huge role in how clients perceive you. If you can’t take the effort to lose your hoodie in favor of a nice-fitting dress shirt, how can they expect you’ll handle their next project professionally (and on time)?

Using an effective “author photo”–the one photo used consistently on writing websites, your portfolio/website and any social media websites–is now vitally important for making a good first impression on clients, even before they shoot off that first email.

Do you specialize your writing? Do you have a niche that you stick with more than others and that most of your writing centers around? If so, then it’s time you learn to market this for its full potential. You could be missing out on more earnings and higher rates because you don’t know how to benefit from writing specialization.