Your mood will have a big effect on your writing. If you’re feeling happy and upbeat, the tone of your article will sound just as cheery. That’s great, so let the words flow and take advantage of your productive moment. Bad moods are a different story, and the blues can put a stick in the [...]
High-Density SEO Content and Keyword Articles
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Keyword articles and content are a big thing these days. Placing keywords in your copy attracts search engine notice and gets your page ranking higher for relevant returns on searches. Three major search engines are ruling the Internet these days: Google, MSN, and Yahoo. One problem is that MSN and Yahoo allow up to 6% [...]
A Question of Style
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Content writing, like any other type of writing, is subjective to each person’s perception. Because one person thinks a text is good does not mean the next person will think the same. That’s important to remember. If your writing style leans towards academic and informative over conversational and friendly, and a client criticizes your style, [...]
Is Ghostwriting Ethical?
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Is Ghostwriting Ethical? That’s a good question, and the answer you receive will depend on who you ask. There are hundreds of points to debate on the subject of ghostwriting, both pro and con. Some believe that ghostwriting is cousin to plagiarism. Many people who use ghostwritten material do pass someone else’s concepts and ideas [...]
Professionalism and Freelance Writers
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Many clients complain about freelance writers who lack professionalism. Lack of contact, not being updated on progress, a touchy tone to communication, missed deadlines, disappearing – The list goes on. The anonymity of the internet lets individuals get away with things the real world doesn’t. Basic business principles, though, shouldn’t be any different whether you’re [...]
A Sad Project Description
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It’s a sad day when buyers need to tell writers the work they purchase should be error free and of better quality. If you’re charging people for your writing services, shouldn’t you be doing a good job in the first place? If you’re being paid to write, you should be writing well and without errors. [...]
Unresponsive Writers are Irresponsible Ones
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I’m interested by a particular well-known (read, highly marketed) freelance writer’s practices, ezine, and blog posts. Why? Because I think this person uses some questionable tactics about earning money, sells sub-standard, empty material, doesn’t provide good advice, and brings down the reputation of writers in general. I had a few comments to post on her [...]
Miracle Ebooks
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A friend of mine asked me to look over the Dabbling Mum’s website for the quality of content and advice. I did. Two very good questions and answers on the site disclaimers got my attention and I’d like to share them. Question: “What if I’ve followed everything in the e-book [I bought], but my life [...]
Fast Articles: Write What You Know
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Beginning freelance writers will read these words over and over: Write about what you know. Writing about what you know makes sense. If you want to produce articles easily and quickly, writing about what you know means that you’ll spend less time researching. You won’t have to look up material or verify your statements. You [...]
Targeting Keywords for Articles
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There is one big mistake that people make when targeting keywords for articles. They choose the most popular keywords to insert in their text. Sure, you have keywords in your article, and that should bring traffic to your site, right? Wrong. Choosing the most popular keywords has the effect of your article being lost amongst [...]
