It can be a pain, but, yes! I do have a way I approach it.
Best SEO copywriters are non-SEO copywriters.
The problem with SEO copywriters are 1 ) they have too many bad habits you need to break. 2 ) Like you said, some play games. 3 ) They over priced if they have bad habits and play games.
The best copywriters I’ve found are stay at home moms.
Found it by accident when one of my first writers started reaching out to her friends. She’s a military wife so we ended up bringing on other military wives to do copywriting.
Stay at home moms are amazing because they don’t have bad habits to break, and are eager to contribute to something outside of their regular routine.
They’re super loyal because they just want freedom of time + contributing to something.
For a while my team would post opportunities in mom groups on Facebook. Now we have a big enough team that they generally know another stay at home mom they can ask.