How can I find some genuine and effective online tutoring websites to get students?

While finding genuine online tutoring websites is usually relatively easy, many of them are usually ineffective for getting students for the following reasons:

-They rank low on search engine listings for the most common search terms and only show up for very specific but not-so-common search terms. Competition between tutoring directories is, in fact, very fierce; it is not unusual for major tutoring directories and other tutoring listing websites to invest several thousand $ daily in paid ads to (try to) be on the first page of Google, making most smaller directories almost disappear from searches.

-They are often overcrowded, for a subject like math for example, it is not unusual for a directory to list from a few thousands to over 10 thousand tutors for common math exams.

In order to find a genuine and effective tutoring directory I suggest the following: -if you are trying to get students in a specific city, find out the search terms potential clients would typically use to find a tutor in that city, and use those terms as search terms on major search engines. The directories showing up on the first results’ page are potentially good sites you may register in. Note that the fact that a tutoring website ranks high on Google or other major search engines does not mean that you will easily get student from the site by simply signing up. The site could in fact be very crowded with lots of tutors offering your very same services in the same city. If the website is very crowded you still have a chance to get students from it by using some clever marketing tactics.

Once you found some potentially good websites, you may want to be very specific with the list of subjects you teach, the more specific you are, the more specialized you will appear to a potential client; a client who needs a GCSE math tutor would preferably hire a tutor advertised as a specialized GCSE math tutor than a tutor advertised as a generic math, sociology chemistry and biology tutor. If you are specialized in several subject you may consider advertising them separately in different directories.

In order to increase your chances of getting found, another possibility is to market your services to a specific niche which only a few tutors on the website are willing to teach; this will greatly increase your chances of ranking high on searches related to that specific niche and therefore increase your chances of getting found and hired. Among my expertise, I tutor a very specific exam, both my website and my listing on a tutoring directory appear on the first page of Google upon searching a tutor for that specific exam. Note that if you specialize on a niche exam, in order to get a sensible amount of students for your tutoring business from search engines, the total number of students taking the exam should still be large enough to generate a sensible amount of traffic on the web. From my experience, provided that there is not much competition from other tutors, there should be at least 10000 students taking the exam globally in order for you to get students from the web. As for whether a directory is genuine or not, you may want to check out their reviews before signing up.

Some directories, despite being genuine, may adopt a business model that may not fit with our style, do some search first, check what other tutors say about it. As far as payments, if payments are managed by the website, make sure that the tutor gets paid after each lesson or after a few lessons at most; there are some reports of companies withholding payments for more than a month and the tutors never got paid since the company went bankrupt. Established directories are usually more reliable and have more traffic than newer ones, with some exceptions since some borderline scam companies have also been on the market for long, one more reason to carefully search for information about a company before signing up.

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