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• OK, so I’m once again taking the plunge into Twitter: OK, so I’m once again taking the plunge into the world of Twitter. For any of you interested in following me, I’m now @gswriterguy on the service. I wanted to [...]
• New digital self-publishing explodes options for all writers: The new digital self-publishing world we’re moving into explodes the options available for all writers. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, short stories, short articles, or gigantic novels — the [...]
• Getting more visitors to your old website content: Hi everybody! Gary has invited me to guest post here about a nifty method I have discovered recently on how to improve the search engine rankings of your online ramblings [...]
• Internet writers: Pay special attention to the next article …: If you are at all interested in writing on the Internet — blogging, website content, whatever — pay special attention to the NEXT article I’ll be posting to this site. [...]
• Have I sung the praises of Gmail lately? You should get it: Have I sung the praises of Gmail lately? I don’t think I’ve ever said much about it. I guess it’s such a big part of my online arsenal of writing [...]
• Online writers: Write about what people are looking for: One of the most profound statements I’ve read recently about how to succeed if you do blogging or write other website content: Write about what people are looking for. For [...]
• Stating the obvious for online writers: Without traffic you’re dead: If you’ve got a website, or you do blogging, or you simply do “direct-to-merchant” affiliate marketing, and you wonder why you’re seeing no results for the work you’re putting in, [...]
• Tips for writing titles, articles for your website or blog: Here are a few tips to help you write titles and articles for content on your website or blog: 1. Write a title that’s a “grabber,” and that contains your [...]
• Writing tip: Quick way to write quality article for your blog or website: I’ve been doing a lot of article writing in recent weeks, focusing on keywords that people are searching for in Google which relate closely to my websites. That’s how I [...]
• Can you make any real money writing online ‘reviews’?: I’m sure you’ve seen various pitches on various “make-money-online” websites telling you how you can make good money writing reviews for their website or other websites. So, what’s been YOUR [...]
• Outsourcing appears to be ruining online writing industry: Outsourcing of content writing to Third World English speakers (for lack of a better term) appears to be ruining the online writing industry. The Internet is a VERY big “place,” [...]
• Which domain name should you buy for your writing site?: Which “TLD” type should you buy for your writing or blogging or marketing website? What is a “TLD,” and what does it matter anyway, you ask? It could matter a [...]
• Affiliate marketing and domain names for your website: I’m not sure why my thinking is on affiliate marketing so much more than on writing these days, but that’s just the way my mind is working. We’ve been going [...]
• Write legitimate reviews for products you market: As a follow-up to my last article about writing affiliate marketing copy, I wanted to discuss a very popular form of “niche marketing” and affiliate marketing: writing reviews of products [...]
• Advantages of affiliate marketing for all you writers out there: There are some real advantages to affiliate marketing for all of you writers out there who want to do some blogging or other website writing, and use that to bring [...]
• Do you blog? Would you like to? Here are some ideas to get you started: I have a question for all you bloggers out there: How do you decide what you’re going to write about? I’ve known many people in the last few years who [...]
• Affiliate marketing, online writing often seasonal; don’t miss out: For those of you doing affiliate marketing of many products, and those of you doing online writing, you’re probably very aware that such work can be very seasonal. Yikes! I’m [...]
• Biggest challenge for online writers: How to use keywords effectively: This article is probably not for “noobies” to online writing and blogging. You probably need to do some work on fundamentals about keyword research for website content before it makes [...]
• Take advantage of free online storage, file sync: If you’ve never done such a thing before, let me encourage you to take advantage of a free online storage and file synchronization service. The company that link goes to [...]
• Specialized writing online: Do careful research and be wary: Do you believe everything you read on the Internet? No? Then you also should be very careful about what you write on the Internet. I mention this because some of [...]
• Internet writers only get read if they draw site visitors: Call this advice for new online writers or simply basic review of the obvious: Internet writers only get read if they find ways to draw visitors to their websites. You [...]
• Any of you writers using netbooks? Any you’d recommend?: I’ve come into a tiny bit of extra money recently and I’m about to take the plunge and buy a “netbook,” a strange breed of writing tools that didn’t even [...]
• Anyone writing for AssociatedContent? How is it working for you?: I mentioned AssociatedContent as a potential opportunity for writers to make some steady income online in a post last year. Have any of you tried it? For those of you [...]
• Do writers ever retire? How would you define ‘retirement’ as a writer?: On one of the three forums I visit regularly, this one related to affiliate marketing, there’s a discussion thread started by someone everyone there respects. This person has been doing [...]
• Tip about blogging: Don’t sp*m comments; most blogs ‘nofollow’ comments: Here’s a little tip for bloggers, mostly for those who post comments on blogs; SPECIFICALLY for those of you who try to sp*m this and other blogs with idiotic comments [...]
• Further clarification on that FTC disclosure policy: It just occurred to me that I should point you to a couple of resources you can use if you wish to create a disclosure policy for your blog or [...]
• Online writers: Be very careful if you use testimonials: I just searched through my posts on this site, and I cannot find anything related to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines that were issued a few months ago about [...]
• Have I mentioned ‘The Keyword Academy’ for making money writing online?: It occurs to me that I may never have mentioned The Keyword Academy to my faithful followers here as a terrific site to learn about making money by writing website [...]
• Internet blurs line between written word, video: I’m discovering daily at how the Internet continues to “blur” the line between plain written words and video, in everything from off line publications to online design and content of [...]
• My preference is to ‘dominate’ keywords on my website: I posted an article recently about writing online content and how to utilize it on your website and others’ websites. This subject fascinates me and I think it’s an important [...]
• Writing for money online — write for your site or others?: One of the questions constantly debated by those who write for the Internet is this: Should you write content and put it on other websites, or should you focus your [...]
• No takers for my previous writing challenge-exercise?: So, at this point I’ve not had any one take me up on the little writing challenge-exercise regarding researching and writing articles related to best acne treatment products. I thought [...]
• Call this a writing challenge if you wish, or perhaps an exercise: The last article I put up here had to do with doing massive amounts of online writing as a career choice, or as part of an online career choice. I [...]
• Turning your writing passion into online earnings takes time: I am absolutely amazed at some of the people I’ve met at a membership forum I joined a few months ago. I’m talking about people who are able to write [...]
• Writing for money online demands hard work, flexibility: Just suppose you had a chance to make some quick money writing for various websites. You’re a freelance writer, with a varied background in all sorts of writing. Now suppose [...]
• How are ‘smartphones’ changing your life as a writer?: How are “smartphones” changing your life as a writer? Or are they? I confess that I’m sort of a “Luddite” when it comes to cutting edge high-tech (if you’ve been [...]
• Google offers great, useful map research tools: I was reminded this week of how very widely the Internet has become as a research tool. A few days ago, I dropped by my friendly mechanic’s shop for him [...]
• Do you include photos, graphics in your writing?: Do you include photos or graphics in your writing? I come from a non-graphic, non-photography background, so much of my writing in the past, and my blogging in the present, [...]
• Here’s a different perspective on SEO; take a look: If you do any blogging on online writing trying to make money in any way, you certainly have seen or heard the term “SEO.” The letters stand for “search engine [...]
• Integrity means striving always to write your best: Writers need to learn a fundamental rule of integrity: Do the best you can do deliver what you promise. I was thinking about this because I’ve been disappointed with a [...]
• Do know about ‘EzineArticles.com’? You should check out the site: It just occurred to me that, in my eagerness to bring you frequent “Useful Websites,” there are some fundamental sites for writers that I’m missing. So let me remedy that [...]
• If you use EzineArticles.com, be sure you know rules: If you use EzineArticles.com for so-called “article marketing,” be sure you know the rules. The site has very detailed, but very clear, Editorial Guidelines that deal with matters of content, [...]
• Opportunity to make money online with your writing: From time to time, I try to offer tips for how you might make some money online with your writing skills. Sometimes these are opportunities I’ve tried and sometimes they’re [...]
• Writing 1,000 articles in a month — Part 2 of 2: I hope you’ll get a chance to read the forum thread I referenced in part one of this two-part series regarding Internet writing and writing content for websites/blogs. For affiliate [...]
• Slave labor for writers alive, doing well on Internet: Once again, I just got a grim reminder of how sorry Internet writing for money has become. Indeed, slave labor for writers is alive and doing well on the Internet. [...]
• Today’s writing demands a good sense of graphics, design: I made another change to the “theme,” or template for this site a few weeks ago, and I don’t really like the way it looks all that much. I’ll probably [...]
• Interesting forum discussion: Could you write 1,000 articles per month?: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is the first of two I plan on doing related to writing Internet articles for marketing. I cannot do the concept justice in even one or [...]
• Beware of bandwidth thieves, they can cost you money in webhosting: I want to say a little about website and blog issues, all related to Internet writing and stuff you need to know if you’re writing and putting anything on the [...]
• Another online danger — beware of scoundrels with software to steal your website: I hope you’ve read the comment which was left regarding a post I did yesterday about the nice looking website I found which I suspect is using OPW (Other People’s [...]
• Yet another ‘manufactured’ website, I’ll bet — but better software: I don’t mean to obsess over this “auto generated” website design and copy topic, but I just ran onto a site which was done with much better software. It almost [...]
• Another example of terrible writing software … stay away, please: I went through an Internet marketing period when I wanted to create hundreds, even thousands, of WordPress blogs to attract traffic to gain paid clicks on AdSense ads — thus [...]
• Pitfalls of writing for the Internet — stay FAR away from some ‘writing’ software: If you’ve done much on the Internet to write or market through websites, you’ve probably seen and heard a lot of talk about sites specifically designed to draw web traffic, [...]
• Have you found value in writing groups, either online or offline?: I’ve got a question here for those of you who hang around this site regularly: Do you belong to any sort of writers’ group? Is it an online community or [...]
• Writing for the Internet? Learn to think ‘multi-media’: If you’ve been hanging around the Internet since Al Gore invented it (it’s a JOKE, people), you might remember how exciting it was to write and put up your first [...]
• Key words are important to draw traffic to your website or blog: If you’ve been writing copy for a website or posting to a blog very long at all, you know the significance of using key words to draw traffic. The “art [...]
• Making use of online resources and useful websites, especially for writers: (Editor’s Note: This is another “recycled” post, one of the “golden oldies” of the blog which I’m bringing back to the top of the blog to feature their content again [...]
• Basic tip for Internet writers: Visitors don’t really READ what’s on your website: If I could only share one or two “tips” for Internet writing, the most important would be this: Visitors who come to your website don’t really READ what you put [...]
• Year-end reminder: Yes, I am real, I am me, I am here regularly: Editor’s Note: This post has been “recycled” as part of a process to bring old posts back to the front of the blog for the “light of day” one more [...]
• Putting all the hype about ‘Twitter’ in some real-world perspective: Just when you begin to believe a lot of the hype and raving about Twitter, along comes some real-world perspective about the online phenomenon. I’m talking about today’s “Jeopardy!” episode. [...]
• Here are some useful tools for writing copy to use on the Internet: Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, if you’re going to put it on a website or a blog, you might want to consider the following helpful tools. They are all [...]
• Quick lesson for bloggers: Here’s one way to backup your data: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This post was made originally about a year or so ago. It is being “recycled” in an effort to bring some of the posts on this blog back [...]
• Does your blog target worldwide web or is it more local?: I have to ask all of you who blog regularly: Does your blog target the Worldwide Web (www), or is it more of a local blog? I’ve been reading a [...]
• Here’s my answer to the freelance opportunity quiz I posted yesterday: I posted yesterday about a freelance article writing offer for which I received email. You can reread that post. In summary, the appeal was for someone who would write 10 [...]
• How vain is it to search for your own name on Google Images?: For years now, people have Googled their own names surrounded by quote marks to see what sort of information is easily available about them on the Internet — but how [...]
• Here’s a real-life quiz about doing freelance article writing for the Internet: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This original post, made before the website crash I reference elsewhere, generated some interesting detailed comments. Unfortunately, I was not able to salvage the original comments, so I [...]
• Writing website articles — a different approach: For those of you like me who are hoping to turn words into an income via the Internet, I ran onto some interesting ideas about writing articles for websites. It [...]
• Exciting to see many writing, publishing options available online: Back in those stirring days of yesteryear, opportunities for a writer to be published were much slimmer than they are today. It’s exciting to see how many types of writing [...]
• Publishing technology changes everything for writers: The various developments in publishing technology has changed just about everything for freelance writers. In a world where consumers would rather enjoy everything from home theater seating to very wide [...]
• Here’s an excellent discussion about blogging, planning a blog: Not long ago, I recommended a blog called “Friday Traffic Report” as an excellent source of information for writers specifically interested in blogging. I want to call your attention to [...]
• Today’s writer must be flexible as well as passionate: Writers who wish to succeed in today’s economy must be writers who are flexible and willing to try a variety of things to profit from their skills. They must also [...]
• Quick tip with link for all you WordPress bloggers out there: Here’s a quick tip with a valuable link for all you WordPress bloggers out there who may be a little disenchanted with the administration area of the new 2.7 version. [...]
• Writers doing ‘journalism’ these days struggle to find jobs: When I worked at a daily newspaper many years ago as a copy editor, we used to make fun of “broadcast journalism” — speaking just that way about the matter, [...]
• Some affiliate marketing niches are way more competitive than others: Some affiliate marketing niches are way more competitive than others. If you wish to use your writing and marketing skills to make some money doing affiliate marketing, you need to [...]
• Big tip for Internet writing — write for people, not for search engines: This is purely my opinion, based only on what I “feel” and my personal experience: My big “tip” for Internet writing is to write your content for PEOPLE, not for [...]
• Starting a new business through Squidoo — wanna buy a lens?: All right. I’m ready to make a sort of “preliminary” public announcement here: I’m writing my fingers down to little stubs this week and hope by next week to offer [...]
• Explaining more about the misuse of keywords on your website: There are so many ways people have tried to cheat to get paying traffic from the major Internet search engines that I want to make some of this clear. If [...]
• More about using keywords in your Internet writing: Not too many years ago, people who wrote content for websites discovered they could use words closely related to their site content — and search engines such as Yahoo and [...]
• Greatest tool available for writers today — the Internet: The Internet is the most marvelous tool you will ever find as a writer for promoting your writing, calling attention to your writing interests, showing off your writing skills — [...]
• Affiliate marketer? You understand the need for holiday planning: If your writing involves writing content for a website, and especially if it involves writing content for an affiliate marketing website, I assume you understand the need for early planning [...]
• Do you Squidoo? Go take a look at this fascinating community: Do you Squidoo? Has a funny sound to it, I know. But if you use or visit Squidoo, you’ll know how interesting the place can be. They have “experts” and [...]
• Be specific when you pick a domain name for affiliate marketing: Be specific when you pick a domain name for affiliate marketing. Try not to use a domain for an affiliate marketing website that which is too broad, too general. One [...]
• Ah, the drama and excitement of the writing lifestyle — or not: I haven’t posted as often as I would like in recent weeks. I’ve been preoccupied with a flurry of luxurious European cruises, when I haven’t been too busy enjoying my [...]
• Try to use targeted keywords in the name of your blog or website: When you create a blog or website, try to use a name that people might search for in Google and it could pay off for you in free search engine [...]
• Internet writing — look for ‘long tail keywords’ to draw web traffic: Sometimes I assume, since I write a lot of content for my affiliate marketing websites and I write several blogs, that most people reading my writing understand and use concepts [...]
• Don’t ignore seasonal writing opportunities, seasonal deadlines: I’m reminded of that Bible passage in Ecclesiastes: “To everything there is a season.” One of the basic facts of writing, whether online or offline, is that readers enjoy seasonal [...]
• Online business rests largely on quality of your webhosting company: Today is one of those days that makes me think of things like treadmills: I’m putting forth a lot of effort but seeing little or no forward progress. It actually [...]
• Have you tried ‘Conduit Method’ for building websites? It’s worth a look: I NEVER plug “easy way to make money” offers on my websites, because, frankly, there are no “easy” ways to make money online, really, there’s only hard work and perhaps [...]
• Do online collection agencies need copywriters? I wonder: I will confess that my wife and I have received those no-fun letters/warnings from commercial collection agencies. You may know what I mean. The letter sequence starts with something polite [...]
• Useful tips for using AdSense on your website: One of the ways you can make at least a bit of money through your Internet writing and blogging work is to use Google AdSense on your site. If you [...]
• ChaCha — another online income possibility for ambitious writers: I’ve written here from time to time about how difficult it can be to really make any money writing for the Internet. I’ve touched on the outrageously poor pay many [...]
• Features of newest WordPress 2.6: Here’s a short video from the WordPress people about the newly released version 2.6. I’m always personally a little hesitant to upgrade too quickly to any version of any software [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• All of you who write for blogs — what are your best tips for making money?: I established a category here some months ago which I’ve labeled “Internet Writing,” and one of the most common forms of Internet writing that often makes at least a little [...]
• Anybody here made any money to speak of doing Hub Pages?: I don’t know whether any of you writers that come here do Hub Pages or not. Anyone? Anyone making money, or making much money, at it? If you don’t know [...]
• Internet writing: My ‘quickie’ lesson for joining and posting in forums: Do you frequent many forums? You remember those Web-less-than-2.0 relics, don’t you? I say that because all the buzz about writing and community on the Internet these days is about [...]
• Two days later — now Google knocked this blog’s PR down: Well, it’s hard to see how such things work in the Mind of Google, but may Google’s will be done. Just two days ago I mentioned the frustrations related to [...]
• Writing for the Internet is indeed a fragile proposition: Two things happened over the weekend that illustrate the ups and downs of freelance fortunes — especially if your freelance writing involves doing much business on the Internet. First, I [...]
• Sites to avoid if you want to make money writing for the Internet: I see by some of the comments we’re getting that many of you reading this blog have had experience writing for the Internet and/or blogging for money. Those of you [...]
• Some of the problems with website content and article directories: I made a post yesterday pointing you to ezinearticles.com as a good source of content and ideas for your writing. I discussed in that post some of the ways people [...]
• If you blog, you know what I mean by ‘comment sp*m’: Sometimes the stuff that comes to me via email and via attempts to “comment” on my blogs just makes me sick. Other times, such sp*m (rhymes with “ham”) really cracks [...]