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Freelance Sites Sorted by Alexa

The list below is sorted by Alexa rating, based on the stats collect in January 2010.

Site PR Alexa Brief Description
www.craigslist.org 7 37 Oh should I say anything here?
www.elance.com 6 628 Elance is an online workplace where businesses find and hire people “on demand” to get work done quickly and cost effectively. Founded in 1999, Elance was established to help small businesses easily and efficiently hire freelance talent. Today, Elance is the leading workplace for hiring and working on demand. Elance is privately-held and
headquartered in Mountain View, California.
www.odesk.com 6 709 oDesk enables buyers to hire, manage (that’s different from many other similar services), and pay technology service providers from around the world. The service is fairly well organized, fast and reasonably priced – that’s if you are prepared to pay fees. Last time I looked at it the brokerage fees were 10% of the contract.
www.GetAFreelancer.com 6 844 GetAFreelancer.com claims to be one of the largest sites of its kind. It indeed earned a decent reputation in freelancing community. You can find a large number of freelance programmers, web designers, copywriters and translators at that site.
www.rentacoder.com 6 1,908 The site has about 20,000 registered buyers. When you get a project done through Rentacoder you put the entire project fees into an escrow account. You don’t release the fees until the project is complete. This is good because it gives reassurance to the coder that they are going to pay you
www.99designs.com 7 2,614 99designs is one of the top marketplaces for crowdsourced graphic design. As of June ’10 it connects 70,406 passionate designers from around the globe with small businesses who need design projects completed.
www.scriptlance.com 5 3,024 Scriptlance.com looks like a fairly busy site with focus on programming. It’s motto is connecting businesses with programmers and it claims to have thousands of professionals and over 200 projects daily.
www.guru.com 7 3,104s Guru.com claims to be the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance talent. Through their service, employers find freelance and contract talent locally, nationally, or globally. Created in August of 2000, Guru.com’s web-based marketplace directly connects businesses with over 629,000 professionals who specialize in over 160 professional categories including: website design, programming, graphic design, business consulting, and administrative support.
www.coroflot.com 6 7,804 Coroflot claims to be the largest, most established, most diverse pool of professional creative portfolios in the world. Since going live in 1998, Coroflot has grown to host over 1.2 million images of creative work, from the portfolios of over 120,000 creative
professionals and students from nearly every country on earth. Coroflot users are industrial, graphic, fashion, interior, textile and interaction designers; 3D modeling and rendering specialists; architects, illustrators, art directors, design managers, and dozens of other disciplines. Coroflot’s job board claims to be the largest and most active site on the internet specifically targeted at hiring designers and other creative professionals.
www.freelanceswitch.com 6 8,818 FreelanceSwitch is a site for freelancers. It offers a great access to the resources through its Job Board.
www.getacoder.com 5 10,512 GetACoder claims to be a leading Global Services Marketplace doing business in more than 200 countries. GetACoder strives to make outsourcing to any part of the world an easy task. Using GetACoder supposedly offers saving as much as 60% over traditional outsourcing, I doubt that it includes other companies in this list.
www.peopleperhour.com 4 17,712 PeoplePerHour connects you with a vibrant community of 38714 independent, reliable service providers (Freelancers) across 150 countries available to work for you at the click of a button.
It’s like having a virtual, on-demand, global workforce at your fingertips that you can scale up or down as you need, giving you the flexibility to expand your business cost-effectively.
www.ifreelance.com 5 18,088 iFreelance.com claims to be the easiest and most effective way for businesses to connect with talented freelance professionals from around the world. True or not it offers a large variety of talent – from artists and photographers to programmers and writers. iFreelance.com also claims that by outsourcing through them businesses typically get projects done in half the time at half the cost.
www.mturk.com 6 20,354 he Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.
www.sologig.com 7 32,536 Sologig is the preeminent resource to find full-time and part-time contract and consulting opportunities. Employers are searching Sologig for experienced professionals across various industries including IT, Healthcare, Engineering, Accounting, Sales & Marketing, etc.
www.gofreelance.com 4 39,739 Since 1998, GoFreelance has been connecting freelance professionals with companies that need jobs done. From graphic design and web development, to programming, copywriting, article writing and much more, thousands of projects have been completed through our system.
www.eufreelance.com 4 39,800 EUFreelance.com is owned by Ignition Networks Pty. Limited, trading as EUFreelance (ACN 134 845 748), with license from its wholly owned subsidiary, Plendo Pte Limited (Singapore). EUFreelance.com is growing rapidly. Our freelancers and employers come from more than 234 countries and regions from around the world.
www.SoftwareProjects.com 4 44,292 It’s a great alternative to chasing offshore freelancers. These guys are us based. Their best feature is – you get a quote within hours and there are no bidding games.
They’re more expensive than RAC and Elance.
www.online-writing-jobs.com 5 56,499 Online-Writing-Jobs.com strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience
www.freelance.com 6 71,879 Freelance.com provides the fastest and most efficient means of identifying qualified professionals for project based needs or long-term activities anywhere in the world, anytime.
www.designcrowd.com 3 81,926 A forum with access to limited number of freelance designers and developers – Freelance Web Design Jobs – Design Crowd – a job forum run by freelancers for freelancers.
www.poewar.com 3 97,716 Poewar is the blog of John Hewitt. It has also been called the Writer’s Resource Center, but that name is unofficial now. In one form or another, the site has bee a part of the web since 1993. The blog provides information for writers on many subjects. It may also discuss a variety of other topics. I will write about what I want to write about.
The blog provides access to freelancing writer resources through its extensive job board.
www.offshorexperts.com
or http://www.sourceexperts.com/		 4 104,359 A large Directory of Global Outsourcing Service Providers. www.offshorexperts.com (now www.sourceexperts.com) claims to have a network with over 20,000 Outsourcing Experts from Around the World that covers technology and many other areas, such as call centers, creative services, BPO, etc.

www.Outsourcing.org		 4 128,786 Outsourcing.org is a Web-based business directory providing information and free tools for suppliers and buyers of outsourcing services. We are one of the Internet’s most trusted and respected outsourcing sites serving a large and growing community of business users.
www.ITMatchOnline.com 2 171,544 ITMatchOnline (A division of Hi-Tech Outsourcing (P) Ltd) is a privately owned India based corporation has been in business for over 4 years. At a cursory look it seems far behind competition in all aspect of the service.
www.creativeheads.net 5 228,238 CreativeHeads.net is the recruitment software solution for professionals in the Video Game, Animation, TV & Film, and 3D Technology & Software Tools industries whether they be Employers searching for Jobseekers or Jobseekers looking to secure the “right” job.

www.programmermeetdesigner.com		 4 228,926 A somewhat unique concept – This site was created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great. Now content writers and entrepreneurs can also join up to find people to work with.
www.webdesigners123.com 4 306,680 WebDesigners123.com connects freelance web designers (graphic designers, php programmers, etc.) with webmasters that need custom website design or custom programming done for their websites.
www.altpick.com 5 330,668 In 1991 The Alternative Pick was founded to provide creative professionals with a vehicle to find the freshest illustrators, photographers and designers in the commercial art industry.

www.auctionsforbusiness.com		 3 348,035 Auctions for Business has been designed, implemented, maintained and owned
by Arcane Systems. Arcane Systems is a company located in Athens, Greece and is
mainly involved with providing IT and Networking Solutions and Consultancy for
Telecom Providers and private Corporations.
www.writerlance.com 3 434,600 Freelancing market place focusing on writers.
www.mondayworks.com 2 786,420 Monday Works appears to be a German version of freelancer market place. It appears to be a fairly early stage site yet it has a lot of providers. For example search on “java” returns ~200;
www.TheFreelanceNation.com 3 1,003,921 The Freelance Nation is a network of sites designed to enhance the interaction between companies looking for contract services and those who provide them.
www.projects2bid.com 1 1,570,224 Projects to Bid is a website where experienced freelance programmers can find an abundance of projects throughout the world to bid on. These are typically projects that Evoltron as a company would have received. Due to the high demand, we charged our programming staff with creating a community driven website to help fill the gap between projects and our ability them. Although we will not cannibalize the projects that are posted here, please note that Evoltron as a company will also from time to time bid on projects posted here. As such you are encouraged to be active on the site.
www.projectlance.com 2 1,936,996 ProjectLance is a competitive environment for Service Providers and Freelancers, because of this you can save anywhere from 5-15% or more by using ProjectLance to connect you to qualified professionals.
www.Freelancers2work.com 1 2,290,016 Companies of any size can use our web services. Outsourcing is hiring an outside organization to perform services such as information processing and applications development. Find freelance programmers, web designers, copywriters and translators. Web Development doesn’t have to be expensive
www.codelance.com 4 2,388,065 CodeLance offeres a network of over 15,000 IT professionals. Started in 2001 the company strives to differentiate itself by building a community of high quality professionals who offer expert programming, web design and SEO at affordable rates. CodeLance claims to be a marketplace for software buyers and developers large enough to be of value to both parties but small enough to provide individual attention
to every single member during the project bidding process.
www.rentcoder.com 2,958,022 www.rentcoder.com represents a growing community of developers. It seems to offer some basic services and is inexpensive (free for buyer and small monthly fee for
www.RequestFill.com 4 3,402,150 RequestFill.com claims to be the tech industry’s first lead generation platform based on multi-dimensional search engine. The site states that this new search capability goes beyond traditional keyword search engines and matches technology executives with IT service providers that most closely align with their defined project needs.
www.cityitjobs.net 3 5,641,319 CityITjobs is a Services Marketplace. Employers / Buyers can search Resumes and find talent to do their projects or to fill full or part-time positions. Employers / Buyers post the job as a project.
www.thesuperlancers.com 1 7,036,577 TheSuperlancers is a Freelance Marketplace. Here, you can find web designers, programmers, article writers, marketers, graphic designers, Python gurus, or even help with setting up your web server. Suggested by Jay — Tons of cheap coders and designers, marketers, writers, whatever, but more programmers than projects for now so it’s probably a good time to fish for new coders and designers. I do. ;)
www.freelancerneeded.com 8 0 FreelancerNeeded.com claims to be the Fastest and Easiest Way to Outsource Your Projects to Experts Who Can Get the Job Done… Maybe one day, personally I think this site is just Work in Progress…
www.rdba.net 1 0 RDBA.NET is a promising site that aims to provide independent rating of IT providers. It includes a large number of providers in categories such as remote DBA services, IT services, outsourcing, etc.

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    Pingback by Updates to the List of Freelancing Sites « Pragmatic Outsourcing | February 8, 2010

  2. Hi.

    Thanks for a great list of sites!

    We would love to submit our website 99designs to your list. We are the largest crowdsourcing site by alexa, pr and traffic.

    Thanks,
    Kristen

    Comment by Kristen | May 27, 2010


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