Make Money Blogging: At No Cost & Zero Promotion [Freelancer's Guide]

by on May 22, 2013 4 Comments

Steps Of Success

If you’re  a freelancer or more specifically a freelance writer then you probably know that there are tons of Freelancer websites like eLance, oDesk, Freelancer, etc. and also many other sites that pay you for contributing content.

I’ve already featured 10 websites that pay upfront for writing articles and I got so many mails suggesting that they’re mostly for U.S. writers. While it’s true to some extent the real problem is that they’re all quality websites in search of high quality writers. It basically means that you must be very experienced to be part of their network.

So today I’m going to tell you how to kick-start your freelance writing without relying on any of those Freelance websites or agencies or those upfront pay sites.

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Daily Blogging: Here’s Why You Should And Shouldn’t Blog Daily

by on May 17, 2013 4 Comments

Earlier this week Darren Rowse @ProBlogger.net answered a user’s query "How many posts should I post?" as a blog post here. And he expressed his views about the frequency of blog posts by highlighting the pros and cons of daily blogging.

Daily Blogging

While I agree with him that there’s no perfect answer, I also feel that it really depends upon your niche, brand and various other criteria. So there could be an answer perfect for one and not for another. You need to find that out by yourself.

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Here’s How I Write My Mashups In Less Than 10 Minutes

by on May 8, 2013 1 Comment

Remix

Last month I wrote about how to save your blogging time by at least 30% by creating a "blog post template" like we do for e-mails. Today, I would like to revisit that blog post because it appears like creating a template can certainly save significant amount of time.

As you probably know, I publish Minteresting (my mashup) posts not so often and I end up using a template for it even though its not complete. But last week I created another blog post template for daily Mashups and the results were stunning because it helped me publish daily mashups (like this and this) in less than 10 minutes. Sans the templates, it would take me at least half an hour considering the formatting, links, alignments, hashtags and much more.

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Top 15 “Cherry Picked” Premium WordPress Theme Marketplaces

by on May 6, 2013 4 Comments

If you’re new to WordPress then you’re going to to have a hard time finding the perfect WordPress theme (or template). So I’m going to feature the Top 15 WordPress Theme Designers and Marketplaces to help you find your dream template.

Most of the WordPress Theme marketplaces featured here offer multiple options when buying. For example, you can buy a license for single-use, multiple use (developer version), or can even buy their entire collection of themes for a one-time/annual fee.

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Why Outsourcing Content Creation Is A Bad Idea For Your Blog

by on May 1, 2013 7 Comments

Content is still the king and we can reaffirm it by saying that quality content is the king. As we know, millions of articles are being generated daily by blogs, news websites, forums, web 2.0, etc.

Bad Idea

But it’s also true that ever since the the time Google has dominated the search space, content lost its edge. Why? Because nowadays people write for search engines and not for users. And I see that the top results on SERPs are dominated by spammers. Thanks to Black Hat SEOs.

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iTunes Affiliate Program: Make Money Reviewing Apps For iOS & Mac

by on April 26, 2013 6 Comments

As you probably know, the Apple iTunes revolutionized the music industry and later the smartphone industry by creating an app ecosystem.

iTunes

It’s true that Google’s Play Store revenues are soaring high as Android devices now outsell iOS devices. But when it comes to revenues Apple App Store is still dominating and analysts don’t expect Google to overtake Apple until 2016.

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Dear Google, Should I Focus On Content Creation Or DMCA Takedowns?

by on April 25, 2013 3 Comments

As a blogger, should I focus on content creation or spend enormous time on finding content scrapers and then for filing DMCA Takedown notices? Please advice…

Confused

I’m very much annoyed that you continue giving higher ranking to content scrapers even after your so-called algorithmic updates Panda, Penguin, Caffeine, etc. I completely understand when a higher authority website outranks ours even for an exact match "title search".

But there’s no excuse when a spammy content scraper website continues to outrank the original blog posts. Recently you published a Webmaster video where Matt Cutts explains how Google finds it difficult to find the real author of an article.

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