If you’re familiar with Associated Content, you’re probably familiar with Sabah Karimi, who was featured on The Early Show in 2008 for her work with Associated Content.
But what’s more remarkable is how fast she gained success working as a freelance writer: she had only written professionally for two years prior to winning Associated Content’s Content Producer of the Year award. She also released The AC Source Book in 2008, a blueprint for maximizing earnings with Associated Content. 2009 proved to be an equally fruitful year: Demand Studios honored her with their Top Content Creator award, an award only given to a handful of writers.
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As Alyssa Ast mentioned in her recent post about SEO optimization, your own personal “author’s website” can immediately increase your exposure to potential clients–and if you want to diversify (and make more money), that’s good for business. If you’re just starting out, however, this may not be financially feasible. In my next post I’ll discuss cheap, affordable options for hosting your author’s website, but today we’ll discuss free hosting options.
SEED.com is arguably one of the best-paying writing websites on the Internet, with payments for articles easily falling into the $25 to $300 range. It’s also one of hardest to write for, according to writers who submitted articles to their site in 2009 and 2010.
Unlike other writing websites, SEED.com’s approval process is, safe to say, mysterious. Although numerous writers (me included!) have had some articles approved there, SEED.com has never explained what writers should specifically do in order to increase their acceptance rate on the site.
But there are ways to get your articles accepted on SEED.com–perfectly honest, very-non-time-consuming ways, I might add.
My 15-year-old cat, Sephy, has not gone a day without fresh water. Every day his water bowl is emptied and filled with fresh, cool drinking water to drink at his leisure. It’s usually gone within a day, if not less.
But nearly 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water–something which my cat, a domesticated animal, receives each and every day. According to CharityWater.org, 42,000 people die each week from drinking unsafe water. 90 percent of them are children under the age of 5.
Search engine optimization (SEO) isn’t just limited to smart, keyword-oriented content. Your links, headings and even your images are major players in your search engine ranking, for instance.
Today we’re going to discuss the importance of making your images SEO-friendly: why it’s important, the results it can produce, and how you can do it…in less than 5 minutes a day.
It’s been over a week since International Freelancers Day (IFD10) ended–and now it’s time to put their advice into action. Here are 7 important tips for freelancers, straight from the speakers of IFD10.
