Last April, I wrote about talking about how, with affiliate marketing, timing is everything. And it is. This week, I was able to cash in on another piece of timely content that earned incredibly for me back in October, and then again this week.
One of the ways I find interesting content that will likely do [...]
One of the ways I make a handsome chunk of change is by writing niche blogs. Niche blogs are blog-style websites that provide valuable information along with product resources. In the most basic of terms, they are websites that are built around a niche, making a profit by offering advertising for that niche, and some [...]
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Anyone entering the world of online writing for the first time is bound to have questions about keywords. I cover keyword research extensively in my book, and on this site, but I’ve never really gone into where keywords should be placed in an article or other online content.
As a writer, I know that every site [...]
One of the easiest ways to monetize a blog is by using Google Adsense. One of the most popular blog monetization tools available, I recommend that many sites use it as a way to generate revenue. That said, there is another way you can utilize Adsense as a tool for your blog.
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I’ve said this before, but I think that it is worth repeating: earning money online is not easy. It takes time, effort, and sometimes sacrifice. I can think of many times I would have rather been gardening or hiking, or even getting household chores done, but my writing had to come first.
One of the easiest [...]
When people search for content online, they often want to find “how to” do something. That’s exactly why “how to” sites, like eHow and wikiHow, are so popular with the search engines.
Here’s an example:
The term “kite flying” is searched approximately 40,500 times per month, and when entered into Google, there are 1, 900,000 sites that [...]
When writing content for the web, it’s easy to get caught up in all things SEO. We do keyword research, we look for expensive keywords, and we spend time researching content to make sure our time produces earnings. But more and more, search engines are turning to a technique called Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI [...]
Do you use images when writing articles and online content? If you answered, “no,” you’re missing out on some search traffic. Using images when you post online content not only enhances the experience for the reader, it provides you, the writer, with another opportunity to add keywords to your content.
eHow is a great example of [...]
Before you start writing articles, it is important to begin to learn search engine optimization, also known as SEO. While you don’t have to master SEO right away, learning how to use SEO in your articles will make you a stronger article writer and help you bring in more money. It is also important to [...]
As I talked about in an earlier post, linking and gaining back links is an important part of search engine optimization. Today, we are going to discuss three types of links. We’re going to look at:
Linking
Deep Linking
Back Linking
Linking is simply adding a hypertext link that leads from one site to another website. You see it [...]
If you are reading through my series on writing articles online, then you have learned about optimal article length and avoiding pronouns. In this next installment, I am going to write about a technique that should always be avoided: keyword stuffing.
“But wait,” you are thinking, “didn’t you tell me that you need to use keywords [...]
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In the first part of series on writing articles online, I discussed one of the biggest mistakes made by article writers: the overuse of pronouns. In the second part of my series on how to write articles, I will address article length and why it is so important when it comes to writing articles [...]
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One of the things I like to remind anyone who would like to become an article writer is that they need to remember writing articles for the web is vastly different from writing articles for print. If you remember this, you can be a successful article writer.
One of the major mistakes I see with [...]
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While I previously talked about the Google Keyword Research tool, today I am going to talk about using the free part of Wordtracker. Wordtracker is another keyword research tool to use, but it works in a different way from the Google keyword research tool. There are many a SEO guru who love Wordtracker, and I [...]
One of the biggest mistakes writers make when writing online for money is to not use keyword research tools. Keyword research tools, and using them effectively, will make the difference between a successful piece of online content and one with mediocre performance.
When you write for money, it is important to remember how you are [...]
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There are many wonderful writers who try writing online for money but fail. This is because there are basic online writing principles that come into play. If you are writing for money at a newspaper, you can get away with using catch headlines full of puns. But when writing for [...]
