How to become Top Rated on Upwork from scratch in 13 weeks. SEO G.O.A.T. Case

This article is suitable for any account, but I was so pleased that this team was following all the needed instructions and even more - they improved the way of understanding the algorithm.

So agenda:

1. Requirements to become top rated on Upwork
2. How to do it as fast as possible in simple words
3. How SEO G.O.A.T. improved my advice and implemented their own strategy

Requirements to become top rated on Upwork

To qualify for the Top Rated badge as a freelancer, you must have:

• A current Job Success Score of 90% or higher
• Had your first project on Upwork more than 90 days ago ATTENTION - anyway it's under 13 weeks
• Maintained Rising Talent status or a Job Success Score of at least 90% for at least 13 of the last 16 weeks
• A 100% complete profile (90% for those who brought their profiles over from Elance)
• Earned at least $1,000 USD in the past 12 months
• Up-to-date availability (if unavailable now, set a date estimate)
• An account in good standing with no recent account holds
• Activity on the platform (proposal, accepted invitation, or earnings) in the past 90 days

How to do it as fast as possible in simple words

• You need at least 2 CLOSED contracts from 2 different clients for 1k$ 😉😉 or 4 CLOSED contracts for 1k$ from the same client 😉😉😉😉

=> That's how you'll receive JSS and earn 1k$

• that's it! responses in 24 hours for invites and in 13 weeks you'll receive top rated status

Yep, did you understand that you need just 13 of the last 16 weeks?

Guys, there are a few ways to receive 2-4 projects fast. It's not so hard.

How SEO G.O.A.T. improved my advice and implemented their own strategy

Guys (awesome guys) from SEO G.O.A.T. have their own product for link-building. Their main goal is not to sell the service but to sell their own product additionally😉

I am not so good in this niche sales but I'm good in Upwork algorithms. So I told guys how to work with the current algorithms like skills search but they have improved it. To double-check that their search was right, they were also checking each skill oppositely for the relevant jobs.

Do you understand? After my type of research, they were additionally performing the search by skill to check if this skill was relevant enough or not. Kudos to Bohdan and Kirill!

Just 13 weeks and they achieved their results organically:

So long story short:

1. 2 projects from different clients or 4 from the same one for 1k$
2. good response time
3. great Upwork profile strategy (learn more from my blog)
4. 3+ months and you are top of the top in your leadgen mechanism!

If you have questions or you want to book a consultancy, please contact me on LinkedIn.

Hugs,

Tamara