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Freelancing online isn't easy. Quite a bit of thought and planning goes into it, and it is a long-term process. But a well-built freelancing career means a lot. It can get you not only permanent writing jobs earning you high amounts of money, but also jobs in newspapers as citizen freelance journalists. Here are some tips to earn high amount of money writing online. 1. Keep These Resources Ready for Reference If you wish to get a great freelancing job, then here some resources you should check out. These invaluable links are updated daily with new freelancing jobs. You should be able to find great writing opportunities through them. Subscribe to their RSS/Atom feeds. Freelancing/Blogging Job Boards PoeWar Writing Job RSS Feed : Updated daily with new writing jobs Blogger Jobs : A great resource for blogging jobs. Writers Weekly : Another great resource for writing projects Problogger Job Boards : Gives feeds for blog network jobs, co-blogging, corporate/business bloggi...

Yesterday, I received a comment at my press release distribution sites list . Lenin, One factor not included in your list is which sites are indexed by Google News. You can check this by going to Google News and doing a search such as site:BigNews.biz (just swap out the URL for whatever site you want to check on) this will check to see if the press releases from that site are listed in Google News. Many are not, and Google news can drive a huge amount of traffic. The suggestion made through the comment is very valuable and I pointed out it in my reply. You have to check and see if the press release site is actually listed in Google News before working with it. It is a good indication of how valuable the site is. Here we have some guidelines for writing effective press releases, as well as some press release templates from the Microsoft Office and Open Office galleries. What Is a Press Release for? A press release is any news announcement made by an entity, including individuals...

As you read in my last post, NaNoWriMo is a fun novel writing game. It stands for National Novel Writing Month, and the month is November. Aspiring writers cannot afford to miss deadlines, and this writing game is quite a bit about keeping deadlines. Completing 50,000 or more words of pure fiction in 30 days’ time is sheer fun ride. Here I have some tips to equip you for it. Make sure you register at NaNoWriMo website before 30th this month. 1. Plan Ahead At this eleventh hour, planning ahead may seem awkward. But time is always valuable. You got three days to go before the competition actually starts. You can decide your plot, characters, schedule, time when you sit to write those 2000 words daily, maybe watch a few films or read a few short stories to gain some ideas, or read some related non-fiction as part of your research. You should make sure to write at a fixed period every day. This should be decided in these three days. These three days and the thirty days coming a...

Have you ever started a novel and gone short of accomplishing the task, cowed away by the sheer pressure and apprehension on the quality of your work? If so, NaNoWriMo is for you. This is the short for National Novel Writing Month . NaNoWriMo is a one-month long novel-writing program starting on November 1 and ending on the 30th. So, be sure to register free for the program before Oct 31. Within those thirty days, you need to finish a novel up to 175 pages (50,000 words) . The specialty of this program is that the quality of the work doesn’t matter; only the quantity does . You can submit any crappy novel of 50,000 words, if you want to win the game. It’s a program that exists there only to remove fear and apprehension from the minds of writers. Since 1999 NaNoWriMo is here, allowing people to participate. Now, almost 300,000 participants have won the contest. NaNoWriMo is only a jovial contest, without any prize. The only prize you get is an online certificate of your successf...

Introduction Should you feel the importance of submitting short stories, as an incentive to your normal writing career, you should do in-depth market research for the best sites and magazines to which you can submit them; the most important thing is exposure rather than payment . If you check out my previous article on short story submission guidelines and how-to , you will have a fairly good idea of the importance of short stories. Here, we have a list of short story markets that really matter. The List of Markets 1. Amazon (Star rating: 9.9) Did you know that Amazon accepts your short stories? Yes, they do. Amazon is one of the most visited websites in the world and being accepted by them, hence, can be a great privilege and advantage. The program is known as Amazon Shorts , from which users can purchase short fiction for a minimal 49 cents . Since the site gets millions of visitors daily, getting your story purchased a number of times can fetch you a good amount of mo...

Introduction Marketing executives know the importance of press releases more than anyone else does. Press release submission is one of the greatest ways to promote your blog posts . Just as social media submissions, writing press releases for each of your posts can generate a huge amount of traffic as well as build some more links . Why Press Releases? The two major reasons people submit press releases are building backlinks and generating traffic . In order to get high quality backlinks aiding in SEO, you need to submit press releases with anchor text links to your sites . High traffic press release sites help you with direct traffic as well. You should know that not every press release site gives you enough benefits . Some of the sites do not even give you what you are looking for—a DoFollow link . Such sites are not good for your link building campaign. Also, there are sites which get higher traffic than others. I have checked the Alexa rankings of these sites and have foun...

Perhaps you read my last post introducing Google Knol . I went ahead and created a bio page in Knol, and wrote a post on using commas correctly. You can follow this link to reach this article. Here, I will share my thoughts on Knol more deeply. My Knol Profile Knol Interface There is not much to speak about the interface of Knol. It's just like any other Google page— simple, streamlined, and friendly , no clutter or advertisements. The page loads faster, with some featured Knols on the front page. It's still in Beta stage; we can expect many new features and modifications in the coming days. I didn't find much trouble navigating through the home page. It, however, could be made more beautiful. The font size and background color were not appealing to me, but it's very simple; so damn simple! However, it seems that Google gave out the project during test period only to doctors . There are only health-related articles on the front page. Many of the search terms ...

Yesterday, Google announced its Knol project publicly. Its a Wikipedia-ish content system, in which authors can contribute about anything and get a share of revenue generated by their articles. In this way, it can be compared to Adsense. Moderated Collaboration The main disadvantage of Wikipedia as a content site is that anyone can contribute to the contents without the intervention of the original author of the page. This means anyone without appropriate knowledge can add or edit anything on a Wikipedia project. So, there can be truckloads of errors on each Wikipedia page. In Knol, each of these articles are 'collaboratively moderated' . That means, any new writer can edit or add content, but only the original author can moderate it. Advantages The advantage of Knol is that the authors, unlike in Wikipedia, get paid for their content. We can soon see many authors making serious money with Knols they write. This is a revenue sharing system, and any Knol you write ...

Typing is an art that can be mastered with some practice. Dedicate some time on it, and you can master touch-typing (typing without looking at the keyboard) quite fast. As a writer or blogger, ability to type faster places you at a great advantage , as we will see. Here is your complete guide to typing on a QWERTY keyboard (our normal keyboard). Advantages of Typing Fast 1. Do you have the experience of typing something into a text box (blog entry or comment for instance), while poring over the keyboard to find the appropriate keys, all to find at last that you actually didn’t type anything at all since the caret was off the text box? When you type looking at the keyboard trying to find keys, your attention is wholly on that, wasting a lot of time . What if you can type without looking at the keyboard at all? 2. Typing without looking at the keyboard saves a lot of time, since you can concentrate on what you are typing rather than take trouble finding the correct keys. Moreover, lo...

A week ago, one of my readers in CuteWriting commented on a post that she found the article very simple and easy to understand than the corresponding Wikipedia content. This made me ponder hard on this aspect of language and style to be used in writing blog content. Here are some of my opinions on this topic . Bloggers, You are Voicing Your Opinions! Through your blog, you are not trying to be an authentic resource , but quite the opposite. You are trying more to tell your opinions on a certain thing to the world . Your judgment may be erroneous, sometimes correct . However, it’s just your opinion, based on facts, and not an authentic ‘verifiable’ Wikipedia article. When you blog, be natural and tell your readers what you think and not what’s going on as news sites would do . Nobody is going to sue you for voicing your opinion, and nobody is going to even scold you. Your readers will only tell you how they felt about the topic and if you are wrong about any point . This is why comment...

When you own a blog, your major aim is twofold—that’s for most bloggers—first, giving useful original content to the readers, and second, monetizing your blog for you to quit your day job and concentrate on your first objective full time. The most important aspect that will get you to the status of a full-time, earning blogger is traffic . And for traffic, you need to optimize your blog for search engines, and market the content appropriately. Here we will look at Guest Posting as a marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy. I believe guest posting is a win-win situation for both sides . When you post as a guest to other more popular blogs, you can get backlinks to your own blog, and backlinks are to SEO what aorta is to heart . Guest Posting Advantages for the Guest 1. SEO Side When you post as a guest to other blogs, you are in control over the content, and hence you can place links to any relevant article on your site in the guest post . These links are highl...