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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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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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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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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The Secret To ‘Daily Blogging’ Is To ‘Start Writing’ A Blog Post

by on April 21, 2013 1 Comment

You’re a blogger but you’re running short of ideas to write about. You re-blog what you read on other blogs in your niche. You think it’s not possible to make news. You think you can’t write an original story. But then have you ever wondered how the so-called professional bloggers come up with a new unique topic daily?

Start

Well, the secret to daily blogging is to start writing a blog post a day. If you’re really passionate about your blogging niche and if you’re obsessed with what you’re doing then you can’t do anything unless you complete the blog post.

Read: Forget Content Marketing, Let’s Focus On Content Curation

I can say that I have repented several times by not blogging at the correct time even though I had a topic handy. Why? Blogging is easy but it takes time, patience, research, and some skills to curate stuff.

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Forget Content Marketing, Let’s Focus On Content Curation

by on March 21, 2013 Leave a Comment

Curate

A content curator is someone who aggregates content from across the web. They’re not the ones who copy stuff from the Internet and repost the same on social media, blogs, etc. Content curators are passionate about what they share and hence they “curate” content before sharing by adding more information and value to it.

Content Curation is different from Content Creation because curators don’t generate any significant content by themselves. Their primary goal is to find interesting stuff and then re-publish the same by adding their own views about the content.

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Google Duplicate Content Guidelines: What You Need To Know

by on November 19, 2012 4 Comments

Duplicate Content

Google last month came up with another webmaster video about duplicate content. This time, Matt Cutts discussed about how Google treats quotes or a block quote copied from another website/blog. It’s an interesting video as I used to quote and reference a lot to other blogs and sites in most of my blog posts. So I decided to write a blog post by consolidating Google’s view on several aspects of duplicate content.

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