Web Writing

Places to Write Online

January 21, 2012

Get started writing, get paid a little as you go, get used to keeping a writing schedule and get your name on something published for others to read and give you feedback. These are some interesting places to write for online: Yahoo!Voices Open Salon Technorati Suite101 HubPages

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Create an Editorial Mission

January 4, 2012

From CopyBlogger: The 3-Step Cure for Boring, Useless Content 1) Create an editorial mission Most trade journals and top-tier blogs have editorial missions. The editorial mission provides a compass, always guiding writers toward relevant subjects. What do you stand for? What do you offer customers and readers? Every company has unique knowledge it can share [...]

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Thinking of my Archives at the End of the Old Year

December 31, 2011

“Blog archives are the heart and history of your blog.” Quoted from About Blogging Guide (Twitter link), Susan Gunelius. This is how I feel about my blog archives and the very reason I keep them rather than weeding through or deleting them as some popular bloggers recommend. This blog is almost 6 years old (anniversary January 2, [...]

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Avoid the Daily Post Burnout

December 18, 2011

Avoid burnout. If you want to stick to daily posts on your site you have options. Write the posts a week ahead and then schedule them to appear daily. Instead of writing a long post with many points divide it up. Use each point as an individual post and turn them all into a series, [...]

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Turn Your Words into Link Bait

November 24, 2011

It’s all about offering extras, those little things that make one blog stand out from another. Give people something extra. Take the information you want to write about and present it in a unique and interesting way. Use a quiz as part of your post. Highlight information and confirm your message. Give a widget with [...]

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Has your Content been Scraped?

November 22, 2011

3. Your Website’s Content Got “Scraped” If your rankings suddenly deteriorate, that could be because someone has stolen (or “scraped”) the content from your site and posted it somewhere else on the Web. In this case, search engines sometimes lower both sites’ rankings – then look deeper into the matter. Eventually, they are likely to [...]

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Looking at Men’s Style Blogs and What Makes or Breaks a Great Blog

November 8, 2011

I started Men’s Style on Scoop.it, mostly as an excuse to look at men in suits. I don’t mind admitting how nice it is to look at men dressed up and looking good. As I began looking at content (it’s a curated content blog sort of site), I realized how many fashion blogs there are [...]

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Do you Have a Secret Desire to be a Fashion Blogger?

November 6, 2011

Glamorous, exciting and stylish… isn’t that how a good fashion blog feels when you open it? Those high heels, the just-right dress you wish you could fit into (some of you may, not me). I never wanted to be a model, a clothes horse. But… I have a secret lust to be a fashion blogger. [...]

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Get Your Handyman

November 5, 2011

I noticed a job post for someone to write Twitter posts for a handyman service. They asked people to submit 5 tweets as examples. The content could be anything you deemed appropriate for the site/ service. What would you write? This is what I am sending in. Maybe it is too commercial and too much [...]

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Types of Content

November 4, 2011

Kim Lawless wrote What do we mean by content? Back in 2007, pioneering content strategist Rachel Lovinger defined the main goal of content strategy as “to use words and data to create unambiguous content that supports meaningful, interactive experiences.” Part of the problem in defining methodology is that content is such a small, generic-sounding label [...]

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Keep an Image in your Sidebar

October 11, 2011

Even if you don’t use an image with each post you should have some kind of image on your site that represents you (and your site). I’ve been working on Scoop.It (and lately on Snip.It too) as a content curator for a few topics. One thing I have noticed is how often I can’t get [...]

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Do You Use Captions?

October 5, 2011

4. Use deep captions. Studies have shown that image captions are consistently some of the most-read copy on a page. Try pairing a strong image with a “deep caption.” Deep captions are two to three sentences long. That’s long enough to intrigue your reader to dig in to your whole article. via 8 Incredibly Simple [...]

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Blog Smarter, Not Harder

August 30, 2011

Make Yourself a Content Curator Too many bloggers use content the wrong way. I see so many blogs where the blogger is regurgitating content over and over in one way or another. It’s not working. They may make some money by pulling in readers but most people won’t be that interested in reading something rehashed [...]

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Planning Your Ideas Ahead

July 13, 2011

Day 11 of #SITS31DBBB (The Secret to Success Is Support – 31 Days to Build a Better Blog) – I’m many days behind the schedule but trying to catch up anyway. Today we’re going to do an exercise that has really helped me hurdle over one of the biggest barriers that most bloggers face – [...]

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Sneeze Pages Create an Index of your Greatest Content

July 11, 2011

I’m working on creating a Sneeze Page as part of SITS Girls 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge. With as many posts as this blog has it will be a pretty massive job to put them into topical index/ subpages. It’s something I could easily let myself put off indefinitely. But, I’m going to [...]

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Open File for News Writers

June 15, 2011

For news writers, reporters, journalists looking to add a fresh credit to your resume or for those just getting started, this looks like a good opportunity. It is a Canadian site but I know there are similar networks/ sites in other countries so you can read along and see if this kind of community journalism [...]

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Are you Permissive with your Work?

April 19, 2011

For the A – Z Blogging Challenge… P is for Permission. Someone emailed me today to ask if they could use one of my photos for commercial art they are going to sell. I have given permission for some of my photos to be used for art, for personal use. I really don’t think it [...]

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