What Is Google Author Rank?
There is some buzz floating around out there about Google Author Rank. However, people seem to be getting ahead of themselves in an effort to be first. There is no Google Author Rank. Or at least, there might not be, or there might be, but like most things related to Google’s search rankings algorithm, there is no official or documented word from Google that there is any impact on search rankings based on Google’s Author Rank. (Don’t confuse this with HubPages Author Rank, which is completely different, and which might count as prior art, if anyone is interested.) So, what [...]
WordPress.com Blog Suspended
Like many freelance writers, I write on a variety of blogs around the web. Some of them I own, some are owned by clients, and others are free publishing services like HubPages or Squidoo. Sometimes, when I want to try something out, or I am writing on a topic that I’m not sure I will continue to have enough passion to write about, I will start a free blog on WordPress.com to see how it goes. Often, that free blog satisfies my needs when it comes to that topic, and other times, I will end up transferring most of the [...]
My Blog Guest First Impressions
I mentioned on here not long ago that I was experimenting with the My Blog Guest online resource that provides a community of guest blog post writers and publishers. I haven’t had as much time as I would like to really delve into this resource, and that may actually be at the heart of any review. The MyBlogGuest.com website is essentially a forum of guest post writers and publishers. As I’ve noted elsewhere, the balance in this equation is typically tilted far to the side of people wanting to publish guest posts. It is no different here. My Blog Guest [...]
My Blog Guest Experiment
Being a writer is a glorious thing for those who love to write. The only thing better than being a writer, is working for yourself as a writer. Being a professional freelance writer, you might think, is the same thing as working for yourself, but being self-employed is not the same thing as working for yourself. I have no boss who stands near my desk scolding me if I show up a few minutes, or even a lot of minutes, late. There is no office manager, no HR department and the dress code requires nothing more than flannel pants and [...]
New Look at ArcticLlama Freelance Writing Blog
Sometimes, you do things fast. Sometimes doing something takes so long that you forget some of the parameters you had when starting. The previous layout of this freelance writing blog was one of the latter. I set up this blog long ago when I first started out as a full-time freelance writer. As you may know, this blog runs on WordPress, the popular, open-source blogging platform. The design and layout of WordPress blogs is controlled by a “theme”. There are numerous good, free WordPress themes out there. I have spent some time (too much time) looking through lots of different [...]
Freelance Writer Taxes
Every January, as I collect 1099s from my clients I think about taxes and how small business taxes effect freelance writers. (I even had this clip art waiting from an article I had written before It’s an unfortunate reality that for small business owners, like us, the tax burden can be extraordinary. Small Business Taxes for Freelance Writers Both Democrats and Republicans say that they support small business owners. When it comes to sole proprietors, at lest, they are both liars. As a successful sole proprietor you will pay the highest tax rate of anyone in America unless you are [...]
Good Writer Resolutions
Happy New Year, a little bit late. I was celebrating, you know Anyway, let’s get the new year started off on the right foot with some great resolutions for writers for the new year. New Year’s Resolutions for Writers Every writer is different, but there are some things that seem to be true for most writers. I’ve started off this list of writer’s New Year’s resolutions with those that fit into that almost universal category and then moved on to those things that might be more useful for fellow freelance writers. Write – No matter who you are or what [...]
Writing in Your Head
Don’t you hate when you can write for miles in your head, but when it comes time to put it down on paper (or type it into a computer) the well just dries up? (How’s that for mixing some metaphors?) Today is like that for me, unfortunately. Maybe it’s because it’s the end of 2011. Maybe it’s because I am tired. Maybe, maybe, maybe… Whatever it is, it is annoying. Tomorrow (or later today if this mental fog clears) I’ll be posting the best writer’s resolutions for the new year. Until then, Ugh!
Making Money with HubPages
Not too long ago, there was a gold rush of sorts at HubPages. About a year ago, web marketers got the idea that HubPages, with its PageRank 6, was a good place to do something called article marketing. I don’t think there is any hype around it anymore. With article marketing, you publish articles on websites, generally for free and without any editorial approval, and then use those articles to link to your own webpages. The idea is that since Google is basically a glorified link counter, making more links point to your online writing content is a good way [...]
Taking Down Bright Hub Links
I’ve been slowly but surely deleting the links to my content ever since Bright Hub shut down for all intents and purposes. Unlike writing for Demand Studios, one of the things that made Bright Hub worth writing for after awhile was the revenue sharing. Now, as most of my readers know, I’m not a big fan of revenue sharing. The main reason is that there are just too many factors out of my control. No matter how great my freelance writing is, for instance, there will never be any traffic to speak of if the site it is published on [...]
