Making Money as a Webwriter » SEO writing

Somebody hid the wonder wheel

mrshannigan — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:07:10 +0000

My story has been repeated a hundred times this week, by other niche bloggers- but if you’re not reading them, you might not have known. It starts like this-

I’m building a niche site (first new one in 2010)

I need to choose my categories. I want them related. I want google to see me [...]

Suite101 earnings, revisited

mrshannigan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:36:04 +0000

Almost a year ago, I wrote about my Suite101 earnings, because one writer made $5000 in a month and they finally told us we were allowed to discuss our income.

I’m revisiting that topic this year because the industry has changed a little, so have my earnings and my writing habits and Suite101′s best practices

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SEO browser plugins for Chrome

mrshannigan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:45:19 +0000

I use a mini laptop, so I don’t have a lot of screen space. In exchange, I get to take my computer everywhere my busy lifestyle needs me. I have six kids who are always wanting to go to a friend’s house, to tap dancing classes, jazz, singing, drama, the library, girl scouts, science club, [...]

Free Download – URL Tracker

mrshannigan — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:35:15 +0000

I mentioned this spreadsheet the other day in a post called “If you’ve been writing online for over a year, do this NOW.”

BUT… your life as a web writer would be so much easier if you didn’t wait until you’ve been writing a year to use this form.

Imagine… you publish a mere 1 [...]

Newest writing site that I love

mrshannigan — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:36:38 +0000

OK, this one isn’t new and I can’t even say that it’s new to me. I signed up for Constant Content apparently in November of 2008. I’m not sure what the process was like (is it a sign-up or an application? I don’t remember) All I know is that I kept getting these emails every [...]

Magic List of Successful Keywords

mrshannigan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:04:50 +0000

I got another request for “good keywords” and unfortunately, I can’t just GIVE anyone good keywords. It’s not about the keywords. It’s about the combination of keywords that are good for different reasons. Hopefully this 3000 word article will explain

SEO for freelance web marketers (and that is exactly [...]

Q- How much time should you spend promoting your articles?

mrshannigan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:54:17 +0000

A- none.

I know there are advocates out there for massive article-promotion campaigns, but I’m not one of them and I’ll tell you why.

#1- your article is REALLY only interesting to a few people- people who SEARCH google, yahoo, bing, etc for that information. If your SEO is on target, they will find it. [...]

How to Analyze your eHow Stats

mrshannigan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:04:21 +0000

One important thing to understand when you’re trying to make a living by writing online is how to analyze your statistics. Each website gives you access to different factors and information. Learning how to “fill in the gaps” is the best way for you to determine which articles are bringing in the most income and [...]

It took me forever to figure this out

mrshannigan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:19:31 +0000

(Free SEO Video Course ) And here are a couple of guys who mastered it and make almost $100k a month. DAYUMM or should I say SHAZAMM because my kids are in the room.

I was reading the Suite101 forums and someone posted this video- awesome- awesome- totally CLICKED for me. Most of this I [...]

NEVER miss these opportunities

mrshannigan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:57:00 +0000

If you’re working for residual income, here are some things that should make your eyes perk up when you’re browsing the web.

#1- rather crappy websites that don’t appear to be Search Engine Optimized, yet seem to get a lot of traffic. I found one the other day that said something like this:

I started [...]