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Online Writing With Suite101.com And Helium.com

Andrew — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:07:08 +0000

If you are interested in writing and making some extra money online there are plenty of sites that offer you the chance to do so. You can hone your craft, sharpen your debating skills, contribute to many different topics and get paid immediately or on a monthly basis. Here are two popular sites for publishing articles on the internet.

Suite101.com was first established in 1997 and it's a private company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and there is also an office in Berlin, Germany.

There are two types of writers for Suite101.com, contributing writers and feature writers. Before joining them you will have to send samples of your writing. Once you are approved they will welcome you as a contributing writer.

New writers must sign a contract agreeing to contribute ten articles every three months. There are many topics to choose from and you can write about whatever interests you. Writers can talk about business, education, cooking, travel, family issues, medicine/health and lots more. A group of editors will look at your work and suggest changes and improvements when necessary. You get paid too!

You can request to become a feature writer when you have a large number of articles focusing on one topic. Feature writers must write at least one article per week about their chosen topic and must also write a blog.

Suite101.com uses a revenue sharing method to pay its writers. Depending on where your article is ranked by the biggest search engines like Google, hundreds of readers can click on your article every week. Articles topics must be based on fact, not opinion. Therefore, no creative pieces are allowed.

All they ask is that you not copy your work on any other site for a twelve-month period and that you do not post any offensive or discriminatory material. Like many other sites of this nature plagiarism is definitely not acceptable and any person who copies another person's work will have their account deleted at once.

Helium.com is another similar website where writers can post articles free of charge. One major difference between this site and Suite101.com is that Helium accepts poetry and creative writing. The range of subjects is wide and contributors can offer their opinions on different subjects. There are contents for writers and you can compete for cash prizes.

Getting paid is similar to what you would see on Suite101.com. It's a revenue sharing program. Another aspect about writing for Helium is that your fellow writers rate your articles. If you consistently turn in high quality articles that are free of spelling and grammar mistakes they will get higher ratings and that means more views. Unlike Suite101.com there is no monthly requirement for article writing. You can write whenever you like and whatever you like as long as it isn't offensive or blatantly prejudicial.

Each site has its own forum and you can communicate with other writers for advice, suggestions and help. Editors do have the authority to flag your articles and take them offline if they feel your article is off topic or if your writing is of substandard quality.

These are two of the most well recognized freelance writing websites. The more you write the more money you'll make. If you like to write and want to publish something right away, check these two sites out.

7 Steps To Internet Marketing Success

Andrew — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:23:47 +0000

Many people are wondering if there is a real way to market their business on the internet for free. These days it is very possible to market your business or product on the internet and to get excellent amounts of traffic using free methods. As long as you know what is involved and the specific steps to take in marketing your business, you will begin to see your traffic and sales increase quite a bit in a short amount of time.

It is a fact that people want to be successful in their endeavors. If they put time and effort into creating a website or a business, they want it to be successful. Promoting your website or product is a great way to help achieve this success. So, the question then becomes how do you market your site properly?

There are seven steps that should be followed in order to get the most out of free marketing and advertising venues. This will ensure the most effective marketing campaign and often ensures a higher success rate.

The first thing is to sign your site up. Look for the newest, most famous directories online and list your website with them. This is the easiest and by far most efficient way to get free website promotion. Start with this idea and you are guaranteed to have more prosperity later on. However, it is imperative to make sure that your website is prepared before you list it. This will make it much more likely that you will be accepted into the directory that you are submitting to.

Next, identify your forums. The reason that forums exist is because they offer free promotion to everyone. Simply sign up, log in, participate and post actively, and let other people know about your website in every post that you submit. This is a sure way to attract visitors to your site.

The next step is to create press releases that will be helpful to you. Free your writing spirit and write a press release that focuses on promoting your website. This is a free promotion tool that can be done as often as you would like. Write a short paragraph and then send it to friends, family, online ezines, and other sources of media. By doing this, you are almost guaranteeing yourself massive amounts of traffic.

Remind yourself that you always need to be friendly on the internet. By utilizing free promotion methods, you need to be sociable and friendly. This is because the friendlier are with people, the more they can help get your site linked in many places. Make contact with people and welcome link exchanges and requests that you receive.

Make sure to produce relevant, high quality articles. Make sure that what you are writing and submitting to people has to do with what you are selling or offering. It does not make sense to have a travel website that has articles written about home improvement. Focus on your particular area of expertise. Articles are your advertisements and are a great source of free promotion.

Let the whole world know about your site. When you are having conversations, add your URL into them. People will in turn tell others about your site. This is an effective way to bring in traffic and potential sales.

Create banner advertisements that get attention. Create a banner for your site. Then, offer to make banners exactly like it for other webmasters. Do this in exchange for links or credit on their sites. If you get in with the popular sites, you are guaranteed greater exposure.

Take a free website promotion course. There are many courses online that are completely free and can teach you a lot. Most of these programs ask you to join their newsletters. If you create a site, there is no fee for advertising it. You only have to do some research about this type of promotion.

If you follow these steps, you will maximize your internet marketing and advertisement with no cost to you. All it takes is some time and a small amount of effort. Most of these steps are simple to follow.

MarketersCollege.com New Internet Marketing Training

Andrew — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:05:44 +0000

We have been beavering away over at our Learn Internet Marketing site. Now for our paying members there are hundreds of internet marketing training videos on dozens of topics.

Here is a sampling of some of our recent highlights:

Using Review Blogs To Market ClickBank Products

How To Add An Affiliate Program To Your Online Business

How To Make A Recurring Online Income From Local Offline Businesses

How To Post A WSO – Warrior Special Offer

How To Use A Forum To Build Community and Increase Profits

And that's just from the past week!

In the next few days we will be publishing new training courses about lead generation and product creation and we have a host of goodies lined up for the rest of May!

As well as this every day we are publishing articles about developing your online business and self development, these are free of charge for all visitors.

Pop over and check out MarketersCollege.com a five day trial membership costs just $5!

Kill 'Duplicate Content' On Your WordPress Blogs, Go CANONICAL!

Andrew — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:02:18 +0000

Firstly, can I note that there is no real 'Duplicate Content Penalty' but there are duplicate content filters. According to Google penalties only apply to people who are intentionally adding content to the internet to game the SE algorithms. Us ordinary folks need not worry. However, having duplicated content on your website is not such a good idea. SEs are pretty good at sorting out the content that we webmasters want the world to see and we often work to improve things by 'shaping' the SE bot traffic through our websites and blogs.

I was thinking though, wouldn't it be better if rather than having to say which classes of content we wanted indexed in advance by using tools such as All In One SEOn on our WordPress blogs we could choose which content we wanted Google, Bing or Yahoo! to index more directly?

Well, I went on a hunt and found out about the Canonical URL tag introduced by Google a while back and recognised by Yahoo! and Bing. What this does is to tell SEs that content tagged as 'canonical' will be the content that is indexed and shown to searchers. So, in effect if all our pages and posts, as added by us to our sites were tagged as canonical we'd not need to worry about tag pages, archives or category list pages.

Hmmm… this should have a plugin!

Well, it does!

Have a look at Yoast Tweaking Websites blog where you can download a plugin to manage your content.

This plugin will not solve all the duplicate content issues that Wordpress throws up but it'll help in a way that is unobtrusive and easy.

WordPress Installer For Your Desktop

Andrew — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:35:26 +0000

Over the years I have tried and used a load of WordPress installers. Most of these products ahve not been very good. The best I found for a long time was from Mass Automation, WPInstaller, a product still being sold. I have found an alternative and at very low cost. Here it is: Desktop WordPress Mass Blog Installer & Manager This tool does a fine job of installing WordPress along with your choices of themes and plugins both of which can be activated automatically.

I really liked that I could add up to 10 pages to the site at setup so that I can have all my 'admin pages': About, Privacy, Disclaimers etc all ready to go saving quite a lot of time. In addition I can set up the inital post, the blogroll, categories etc etc.

The tool also functions as a WordPress blog manager and enables the webmaster to update versions, themes and plugins from the desktop and to multiple sites in one go.

If this tool included a blog poster that enabled me to submit content to my blogs without logging into the site then I'd be a very happy man. However coming soon is and Article Poster and Article Creator tool within the installer. If these actually show up then this will for the current price of just $29 be an absolute steal.

Take a look for yourself, there is a demo version available from the sales site: Check this!

The PLR You Want, Just When You Want It!

Andrew — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:10:08 +0000

I came across a new Private Label Rights site the other day and I confess I signed up instantly.

I had to!

The offer was too good.

Here's the deal. Most of the time we buy PLR as a subscription and every month we get packages of PLR material to use as we choose. Cool, very useful, but there is one big problem. We only get what the proprietors of the PLR site want us to have, No choice. No option to say 'Hmmm, I need 5 articles on dog food and 3 articles on car buying'

What if that was a possibility? What if a site set up to do just that?

YumPlr was set up to offer PLR on-demand. Thousands of articles and new fresh ones every day published for members and using a site that looks like an article directory. After you sign up all yo have to do is browse or search the directory for the content you want and copy/paste the articles you choose. It is faster then me doing the same search on my own PC.

As the site is new most of the content I have been pulling down is not even published elesewhere yet. Obviously that will change over time but always there is new content each day.

Price is right too, less than $5.00 per month right now, but that is sure to change over the coming months.

Seriously, this is a handy way to get content in the odd niches for the odd projects where we do not want to pay for a writer to do a custom article and where we do not have a file of PLR content already. I'll be using YumPlr.com a lot.

Redirect Checker

Andrew — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:41:18 +0000

Redirect Checker

An odd thing, in the years I have been making sites and doing affiliate marketing I have never done much with redirects, preferring to use tools to create masked links etc.

Anyway, I needed to move away from the domain that carried my training site in its testbed form to its new home. This needed a redirect. I chose to use a .htaccess 301 redirect to take all visitors to the old site to the index page of the new site. I also needed to tell the search engines that this was a permanent change, hence the 301 redirect.

The code to make the change is dead easy, just put the following into your .htaccess file in the old site:

Code:

Redirect 301 / How to make redirects.

I needed to check that the header information (invisible information sent to the visitors browser and to search engines) was correct so I needed a tool to confirm this for me.
A neat redirect checker It handles HTML and .htaccess redirects but not JavaScript redirects.

Given the problems that can ensue if one gets the redirect wrong it is worth checking and confirming that the job is done right.

Mass-Automation 50% Discount Coupon (Autosocial Poster, RssBookmarker, WP Cloner and all other products)

Andrew — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:00:54 +0000

Matt at Mass Automation.com is offering a limited time discount on all his products. The discount will save a whopping 50% of the ticket price for anything on the site. Several of the tools have been upgraded recently, headlines as follows:

- AutoSocialPoster – version 4.2. Updating bookmarking sites support.

- RSSBookmarker – version 3.5. Updating bookmarking sites support.

- Mass Account Manager – version 2.8. Minor settings upgrade.

- WP Auto Installer – version 3.2. Improved workflow

- WP Cloner – version 3.9. Adding a feature to detect automatically firewall issues that sometimes block FTP connections

- WP Anchor Link – version 1.1: adding support for 2-word keywords

All plugins are compatible with latest Wordpress version: 2.8.6

There are a couple of new releases to take a look at:

- Synonymizer 3.0:

This is a brand new, fully recoded version of Synonymizer. It is faster and much more robust. The 'synonymizing' process has been streamlined with much better memory management than in the past. Synonymizer is now an excellent tool to efficiently publish your articles across your visitors' network of blogs, particularly when used together with WP Blaster.

- WP Membership Tool 1.0:

This new plugin will add *membership* support to your visitors' Wordpress blogs. They will be able to restrict specific pages or posts to their subscribers and start collecting recurring subscriptions from their members. Main features are as follows:

- Easy-to-use tags to separate free content from premium one

- SEO optimized

- Support for unlimited user levels

- First click free feature

- No change needed at blog level

- Payments: support for 'Subscribe' and 'Buy Now' Paypal buttons

- Registration: seamless integration with internal WP user system

- Terms & conditions approval feature.

- Feedback from members feature

- Membership and subscription cancellation automation

Now is probably a good time to take a look at adding some of these serious tools to your toolbox!

To use the discount you need to use the following coupon name: 48HPROMO
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The 10 Best Article Submission Sites

Andrew — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:05:38 +0000

Writing articles is a great way to help market on the Internet. It doesn’t take a lot of time and it’s completely free. If the proper keywords are targeted then the article will get a lot of views and this will result in traffic for the person doing the article marketing. There are many great places to submit an article on the Internet. Here are the 10 best article submission sites.

Before we get to the top 10 article submission sites, let’s take a quick look at how article writing works with Internet Marketing.

There are three main parts to writing and submitting any article online. The first part involves choosing the keywords you want to target and then researching the article. The next part involves actually writing the article. The third part is submitting the article along with a call to action.

So you want to decide on the keyword phrase you want to target for an article. This will dictate what the article will be about. Once you’re ready, then you need to write the article being sure to include the keyword phrase in the title, the introduction, the conclusion, and a couple times throughout the body of the article. Then when you’re done writing the article you will submit it to one or more article submission sites.

Here are the 10 best article submission sites:

EzineArticles

Article Dashboard

Go Articles

Articles Base

Article City

Article Mark

Article Alley

iSnare

Search Warp

Idea Marketers

Not all of these sites are the same (EzineArticles is the best).
Some of them are better than others, and all of them have their own set of rules that must be followed. So make sure you know the rules before submitting or you’ll waste a lot of time and energy submitting articles only to have to rewrite them because they got rejected by the site.

For example, some of these sites allow you to include links in the article while others don’t. Some of these sites will let you have affiliate links with your articles while other sites won’t. So again, make sure you know what is and isn’t allowed on each site.

When you write an article online for the purpose of article marketing then you’ll have to submit that article to one or more article submission sites. Above you have the 10 best article submission sites. Take advantage of all these sites and you will certainly have success with article marketing.

Clearing Duplicate Posts In WordPress Autoblogs

Andrew — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:09:53 +0000

I have been building automated blogs (autoblogs) for several years. One issue that is faced from time to time is that of duplicated posts. I did not have a real solution. Some autopost plugins can look for duplicated content but most do not. As a result I tended to accept that duplicated posts would happen and lived with it.

Anyway, today I found a plugin that watches for duplicated post titles and will not post a new post if it has the same title as a previous post.

Dead simple but should do the trick.

The plugin is written by a French speaking bloke and his blog/download page is in French but if you need help Google Translate can pick up the slack.

The plugin is called Duplicate Posts Eraser and is available to download from here: BlackMelvyn's Blog.

Have a good day!