The other day, I came home tired after spending a fantastic day out in the REAL WORLD with my kids. We enjoyed hot cocoa from the espresso stand (OK- the kids had cocoa, I had a six-shot hazelnut latte, but I digress) We went to the humane society and walked dogs, we drove through [...]

If you’re planning to write for Examiner.com, there are a few things you should look at.
#1- your topic. Do you have enough ideas to create at least an article a day in your topic area? They used to require 4 articles a week but now the requirement is that you’re not PAID unless [...]

Free blogging platforms are great for creating incoming links. I just found another, Salon.com has a blog network that you can use to create incoming links and direct traffic from your other sites. You get 100% of all three google ads on the page, which is nice. You also get a sidebar of links that [...]

And I don’t mean to use the word “battle” in a war-like sense, I just mean that there are two different philosophies niche bloggers should be aware of, and maybe they’re wrong and maybe they’re right, but the speculation is interesting. And I want to add mine so that there’s really three.
OK so today [...]

In online writing, there are a few different pay structures that publishers use.  Paying writers up front is one model, whereby a writer gets a set fee for each article, and nothing more. Residual pay is another, whereby a writer is paid percentage of the income that’s generated from the advertising on their pages. PPV [...]