Internet Writing
Key to successful online ad copy: Write something that draws targeted traffic
Let’s suppose you’ve invented something that you’re sure will change the world, and now you want to put your miracle product/service online and watch the world change — and your fortune grow. Perhaps it’s a marvelous electronic gizmo or gadget you know every household needs at a price you know they can afford. Perhaps it’s […]
For those of you who are eBay affiliate marketers, here’s the best software tool you can own
If your efforts at online writing include affiliate marketing — you know from many previous posts here that mine do — you may be a member of the Ebay Partners Network, i.e., you do affiliate marketing for eBay.
If that’s you, I’ve discovered one of the absolutely most useful software tools you can own. It’s called […]
For those of you with blogs or websites — do you know a good polling script?
I know that many of you blog or host your own websites to which you add regular content. Many of you, I’m sure, have various scripts or software on your site that allows you to poll your customers about an issue.
Forum software, I’m sure, allows this pretty easily. But I don’t run a forum here, […]
Speaking of copy writing — I’ve always found putting new ’spins’ on old products a tough job
I’ve only had one “professional” copy writing job in my writing career, and that was many years ago. But I do copy writing almost daily for much of the content on my various affiliate marketing websites. I’m sure many of you reading this are professional copy writers and/or find yourself also writing website copy that […]
If you write Internet content, you’ve probably heard all the fuss about ‘duplicate content’
The phrase “duplicate content” strikes fear into bloggers and webmasters throughout the Internet, raising fears that their websites or blogs will be penalized or even outright rejected by the gods of Google and suffer the fate of being ignored worldwide.
So I thought it was worth some discussion here — what is “duplicate content,” is it […]
Anyone still making money with blogs through Adsense?
I was reading today about some changes to Google’s Adsense “rules and regs” that a friend tipped me to. It seems to me their latest requirement about Adsense placement in relation to page headings and other links pretty much deals a blow to anyone still making much money with Adsense. If those folks truly comply […]
If you write content for the Internet, I’m sure you understand the term ‘SEO’
Anyone who writes content for a blog or website has at least heard the term “SEO.” That stands for “Search Engine Optimization,” and it’s sort of the “Holy Grail” for bloggers and webmasters. If you’ve effectively done “SEO” on your website, you can expect to see traffic as a result. If you’re “SEO” skills are […]
After a month or so, I’m not really in love with the new look for WordPress
For all you bloggers out there who use WordPress, have you switched to the new 2.5.x version yet? It’s been out now about a month — a few days ago they issued a security upgrade so the very latest version is 2.5.1 — and I’m still getting accustomed to the new look and functionality of […]
Do you do non-blog websites? Here’s something you might consider — WordPress
I don’t know how many of you build websites or write content for websites that are not blogs, but I’m sure some of you do such things. If so, you may already have a template or a method that works well for you, but I don’t know whether you’ve thought about this idea: WordPress, the […]
Follow-up on ways writers can make money online using eBay
A few days ago, I mentioned in a post about eBay, that I would have more to say later about how writers might be able to make some money online through eBay. This is that post. Not really anything spectacular, and some of you may be doing much better at this than I, but here […]
All you copywriters out there: Try my short writing assignment
Copywriting, writing ad content for a website or an offline source, is something I’ve always wanted to be good at. I’ve always thought it looked easy. You take a product or service and write something about that product or service which would motivate people to buy. It sounds simple, doesn’t it?
Yet I personally have several […]
Beware all you writers out there: Blogs and forums can steal a lot of your writing time
If your primary writing interest is in blogging and running an Internet forum, just walk on past this post. Nothing for you to see here.
But if you’re interested in “non-blogging” and general offline/online writing, it’s important to identify whether this problem is your problem: Spending time online reading a lot of blogs and posting in […]
You can make money writing for one of the biggest Internet sites — and it’s probably not what you think
What if I told you that you could write two or three paragraph “briefs” for a website that is one of the biggest “retail stores” on the Internet? This site offers everything from banjo picks to bicycle tire pumps to chrome accessories to — well, just about anything you can think of that people are […]
Two important tips for making money writing for the Internet
Whether you’re building a website or adding posts and pages to a blog, there are two important tips you must keep in mind.
1. Your content must focus on words people are searching for in Google, Yahoo, MSN Live Search, and the other major search engines. That means you cannot ignore that old idea you’ve heard […]
Here’s how to get your blog listed and active in Yahoo’s RSS system
I had a private response to my post of a few days ago, with one of our readers asked me how to get a blog into the Yahoo “modules” that you set up on a Yahoo home page. Getting into that system is relatively easy, and it can be a nice source of readership.
You can […]
