Writing Online

Diversifying to Build a Living Income

Paula Atwell — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:01:08 +0000

I have just finished reading an excellent post by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. In this post, he discusses the history of how he has built his income over 10 years of blogging. I highly suggest that you also read his post. I have been urging the people I meet online to diversify their income streams [...]

Why Collaborating Is On My Mind

AJ — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:10:44 +0000

Why collaborating is good for establishing quality backlinks and authority with Google.

What Are SEO Ranking Factors?

AJ — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:34:56 +0000

One of the handy things about networking is that you discover new sites and information, thanks to your contacts sharing them. This happened to me just today, when my friend Katherine Tyrell posted a link to a very useful site I had not heard of before: Search Engine Land. If you have even wondered what [...]

Should I Update My Content or Let It Ride?

Paula Atwell — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:19:09 +0000

In lieu of the changes in Google’s policy towards spam and backlinking, and their new methods towards fighting spam, the question remains whether or not you need to update your content or leave it alone. This is a tough question because it is always an issue of time allotted towards which priority that you currently [...]

Learning from Mistakes Made on Squidoo

AJ — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:36:27 +0000

How we can learn from the mistakes made on Squidoo, a free publishing platform and apply those lessons in our online writing.

How Google is Fighting Spam

Paula Atwell — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:07:38 +0000

One of the things we have to keep in mind when writing online is how people find our websites or pages. As part of this, we need to consider how search engines behave because they are usually the main way that we receive traffic. Some of us may get traffic through memberships or other gatherings [...]

Taxes for Writers in the U.S.

Paula Atwell — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:02:59 +0000

For the last week and a half, I have been working on my taxes so that my husband and I can file our income tax. Since I own a business as a partnership, my tax paperwork gets folded into my personal income tax paperwork. That means that I have to complete all of the tax [...]

How To Avoid Being Penalised by Google’s Pagerank Algorithm

AJ — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:07:32 +0000

Links to a Copyblogger article to help make sure we don't get penalized by Panda and the ever-evolving Google Pagerank Algorithm.

Site Scrapers And RSS Bandits: Automated Plagiarism

PaulOnBooks — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:29:03 +0000

Following on from his very helpful post last week, Plagiarised Text or Images – What To Do Guest Author Paul Ward explains How Site Scrapers and RSS Bandits can hurt us, even when they only duplicate a few links of our content. Site Scraping Along with the amateur who steals a page at a time, [...]

Plagiarised Text Or Images? What To Do

PaulOnBooks — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:00:48 +0000

Paul Ward explains what action we can take when we find our content and images stolen and used without our permission.