This morning started off kind of slow. I woke up with a headache. It was not one of those headaches you get in a general region like the front or back of your head, but one of those headaches you get in a specific spot. It’s the kind of headache that makes you think that [...]
Actually, this is an online marketing guide for everyone, but it should be used extensively by freelance writers as well. If you know anything about online marketing, SEO, or social networking (social marketing, to some) you know that there are tons of sites out there and even more ways to use those websites, services, and [...]
Can Writers Benefit From Social Networking? It seems like the bandwagon only bangs the drum louder with each passing day. You MUST be fully immersed in the world of social networking, and/or social marketing, immediately or else your business will fail and you will have only your stone age understanding of computers, the Internet, the [...]
To get more search engine traffic there are a lot of things you can do. You can read all about search engine optimization until you go blind. You could even hire an SEO consultant if you have money to burn. You could comment on a thousand blogs a day with a link back to your [...]
Over the past couple of years I have flirted with writing for various online publishing systems. I never really go the hang of Squidoo (or I did and just didn’t like it), but I have writer accounts on several other online publishing websites. Some of those accounts have gotten a lot of attention at one [...]
Another, maybe better, way to automatically tweet everytime you post an article on your blog.
One of the things that make WordPress the dominant blogging platform on the Internet is that it is free and customizable. It is so customizable that there are thousands of themes available. A theme is a set of files and functions that produce a unique look and design for any WordPress website. There are free [...]
This blog, and all of my other “serious” websites, are built on WordPress. I’ve tried Blogger, but just can’t seem to get into it, and frankly, if you are going to build up an empire of websites, the blogging ones should pretty much be built on WordPress or Blogger. As you know, I am a [...]
Do some reading on domain names and what good ones are, as well as a little bit on search engine optimization and eventually you will come across the very sound advice to only use www.domain.com or domain.com, but not both. The idea is two-fold. First, you don’t want to lose out on your search engine [...]
The other day I got an email from another freelancer. He’s not a writer, but our respective freelancing professions have a lot in common. Recently, he started up a website with a blog. What he couldn’t quite iron out what that he has thousands of friends on Twitter but he still doesn’t get much traffic [...]
Worried about the number of page views it takes to make money with ads? It might not be as bad as you think.
