Be an About.com Guide - Overview

About.com Guides create content specifically to help our users in their moment of need.

Every month, millions visit us for help with everything from health care and parenting issues to advice on travel, cooking, technology and hobbies. We're looking for passionate, experienced writers to join this group of Guides, covering one of our available topics in depth.

All About.com Guides are freelancers who work online and set their own schedules, giving them the flexibility to work at the time that's best for them. There are other advantages, too, including a compensation plan that offers a monthly payment for content produced as well as incentives for performance, support from our highly-trained editorial team, and the opportunity to take part in our Guide-focused PR program.

All potential Guides go through a two-part online orientation and evaluation program, learning about our editorial standards while writing articles and blog posts and publishing them on a test site with our publishing tools. During evaluation you'll be evaluated by an About.com editor, who will give you comments on your work before making a final decision at the end of the process. You can read more about the process here.

Interested in applying to become an About.com Guide? Check our list of available topics and see if one matches your passion and expertise. We look forward to reading your application.