Over the past 5 years I’ve built myself a readership that went from seven people per week to over 1200 per day on my main political blog. Twelve hundred isn’t even in the league of the “big” blogs, either. They have upwards of 5,000 hits per day. It’s a continuous learning process, especially if you [...]

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Further to Sunday’s post on the exploitation of bloggers and web writers, the boys at Men With Pens have a great article on that very thing.
Go. Read. Learn.

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When you are starting up as a web writer, group blogs are a great way of getting your name known. A well established blog asking you to contribute on a regular basis can make more people aware of your work and drive traffic to your own website. If no Fairy Blogmother descends to offer up [...]

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I have a deadline to meet, and yesterday was a lost cause spent traveling. So let me offer up the best of what others have to offer!
Jennifer Mattern has blog plugins for Wordpress that are total must-have for hardcore bloggers like me. Now that I have bandwidth to spare, I can install some of this [...]

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Puttering through cyberspace, I came across this work at home ad, telling me how the seller – whoever they are – “made $76,875.71 in 26 days!”
Now, before I get myself into some kind of libel trouble, I am NOT saying that this fine advertiser is selling a scam.
In fact, I don’t know anything about them.
The [...]

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I was never much for staying still and learning in school. I preferred to do my own learning, and I feel I’m smarter for it. Seriously – who is better read? The person forced at the point of a failing grade to read Anna Karenina, or the one who decides that her cross-country train trip [...]

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Wow. My post the other day about SEO marketing (Search Engine Optimization) got a lot of hits, thereby proving exactly what the article was about.
People searched Google for information on SEO marketing, and found my post about it. That’s called “organic” traffic, in that the hits were coming from people who wanted to know about [...]

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SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is how a lot of web writers make money. If you look to the right of this article, you’ll see ads from Google. The magical wizards in the Google oracle take the text from my blog posts and decide – based on that text – what my readers might want [...]

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The only thing freelancers and web workers seem to be talking about this week is the launch of Naomi Dunford’s Online Business School. It’s like the toy all the cool kids are getting for Christmas, only Christmas was apparently yesterday.
Have I bought it? No, not yet. Trying to scrape up the dosh.
Do I want it? [...]

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