With a cutesy name and a big and transparent rev-share cut for writers, Snipsly is probably a site you will be hearing a lot about in the future.
They make it easy to post. Article length is fairly short; after you get the first article approved. Links you post in your articles there are dofollow, so you can link back to your blog or to your other online work.
The site is set up so it's easy to find the rules and information, though the rules recently changed and I'm not certain everything has been updated yet.
Page views and earnings are recorded through your Google Analytics account, so if you want to sign up at Snipsly and earn anything, you will need one of those. If you just want to sign up to build some backlinks or write about a topic you are passionate about, you could get by without one, but really, why miss out on a chance to earn money, if you are trying to earn a living as a writer? (Sorry about that run-on.)
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Showing posts with label effective online writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label effective online writing. Show all posts
Monday, October 3, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Review of Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Mechanical Turk, also called MTurk, is Amazon's cloud sourcing work/project site.
MTurk is similar to Facebook's Cloud Crowd and also to the German-owned ClickWorker cloud sourcing sites.
MTurk workers have to pass simple tests and maintain approval ratings by doing acceptable work, in order to be paid a few cents for simple human intelligence tasks, or HITs.
I found getting started to be really frustrating, my HITs kept timing out while I read the directions and a lot of the graphics would not load on my antiquated pc. I ended up earning two cents for my first two hours there. (That's right, two cents for two hours. I almost didn't log back in, but I'm glad I did, I happened on an easy - and interesting - series of HITs and, while still dismal as far as a per hour rate, did make a couple bucks in about 30 minutes.)
A few of the tasks were writing HITs, paying about 25 cents per 50+ words or less, so I would not recommend MTurk as a place a writer will want to hang out for too long if you have any better paying gigs.
If, however, you have been hit hard by negative changes in the online writing world, MTurk is a place where you can earn a little bit of money.
MTurk is similar to Facebook's Cloud Crowd and also to the German-owned ClickWorker cloud sourcing sites.
MTurk workers have to pass simple tests and maintain approval ratings by doing acceptable work, in order to be paid a few cents for simple human intelligence tasks, or HITs.
I found getting started to be really frustrating, my HITs kept timing out while I read the directions and a lot of the graphics would not load on my antiquated pc. I ended up earning two cents for my first two hours there. (That's right, two cents for two hours. I almost didn't log back in, but I'm glad I did, I happened on an easy - and interesting - series of HITs and, while still dismal as far as a per hour rate, did make a couple bucks in about 30 minutes.)
A few of the tasks were writing HITs, paying about 25 cents per 50+ words or less, so I would not recommend MTurk as a place a writer will want to hang out for too long if you have any better paying gigs.
If, however, you have been hit hard by negative changes in the online writing world, MTurk is a place where you can earn a little bit of money.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Making Money As a Post-Panda Online Writer
This post goes out to those writers who, like me, found it pretty easy to scrape together a decent living as a writer before Panda slapped down the sites that paid reliably.
I can't say I have all the answers about how to recover, but I have made a couple of observations.
My first observation is, the paying work is still out there, but it takes longer and more effort to earn decent wages. Gone, at least for me, are the 15 minute = $15 articles. (Those were rare for me anyway because I am admittedly a slow and usually contemplative writer, except for when I'm blogging.) Now I end up spending a whole hour, or longer, on the same articles I casually breezed through in the pre-panda days.
My next observation is, the SEO information I spent hours upon hours upon hours learning, means very little right now, at least to the content sites that used to beg for lots of SEO - oops - I should have written keyword stuffing not lots of SEO.
I resisted taking on private clients for a long time, mainly because the work for content mills was there - well, everywhere - and it was so easy.
I suspect, for right now, private clients and business writing is the way to go for writers who want to jump back up to pre-panda earnings. Feel free to check out the job board here on this site, there are also some great Yahoo groups for freelance writers, with job leads shared regularly via some of the groups.
I can't say I have all the answers about how to recover, but I have made a couple of observations.
My first observation is, the paying work is still out there, but it takes longer and more effort to earn decent wages. Gone, at least for me, are the 15 minute = $15 articles. (Those were rare for me anyway because I am admittedly a slow and usually contemplative writer, except for when I'm blogging.) Now I end up spending a whole hour, or longer, on the same articles I casually breezed through in the pre-panda days.
My next observation is, the SEO information I spent hours upon hours upon hours learning, means very little right now, at least to the content sites that used to beg for lots of SEO - oops - I should have written keyword stuffing not lots of SEO.
I resisted taking on private clients for a long time, mainly because the work for content mills was there - well, everywhere - and it was so easy.
I suspect, for right now, private clients and business writing is the way to go for writers who want to jump back up to pre-panda earnings. Feel free to check out the job board here on this site, there are also some great Yahoo groups for freelance writers, with job leads shared regularly via some of the groups.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Website Content Writing - Avoid These 4 Pitfalls
Author: C.A. Perez
So, you have decided to become an article writer. You have learned some of the skills for website content writing: how to do research and come up with original articles. You know the basics in terms of structure and style. There is always room for improvement when it comes to content for your website or your blog. This article shows website content writers and blog writers how to avoid four often overlooked pitfalls.
As an article writer you cannot just put in whatever you want. As a writer, you must be aware of what the reader wants to read when they go over the article. If they see things that they find to be inappropriately placed in the article, they will most likely scrap it and move on to find another that better fits their expectations.
Avoid these four simple oversights when writing your website or blog content:
Unsupported Facts
Details will always be present in an article. Many article writers include details that are not supported by research. In short, they include anything. Readers want to read something that is credible. After all, what's the use of reading when the information you find is plain useless.
Poor Outline
Do you want your reader to feel lost? If your article jumps from one topic or idea to another, your reader will soon tire and go elsewhere. His brain will be on overload trying to make sense of an incoherent article. I'm sure you would not want that.
Poorly Constructed Sentences
One of the basic skills of a writer is, of course, sentence construction. This means that a writer must know how to create sentences, spell words and observe parallelism. Sentence construction is important, as it is the main tool in getting the message across to the readers. If in the first few sentences, the structure is already difficult to understand, the reader will find no use in reading the entire article.
Using Big Words
Surprisingly, most readers read at the fifth to sixth grade level. Using big words that require a dictionary definition will quickly lose your reader. In a short 300-700 article, who wants to stop and get a dictionary to understand you? Not many! Samuel Johnson wrote, "Do not accustom yourself to use big words little matters." That is good advice.
As you gain more experience in article writing you will become aware of many more things that readers do not want to see. Stop and smell the roses, pay attention. Visit writing forums or sign up for a writing course. You are never too old to learn. Avoid the pitfalls mentioned and increase your readership.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/article-marketing-articles/website-content-writing-avoid-these-4-pitfalls-1808869.html
About the Author
Shorten your learning curve, act now read this website content writing review.
Learn more about how to write articles for your website or your blog visit, http://article-writing.newbie-info.com/
So, you have decided to become an article writer. You have learned some of the skills for website content writing: how to do research and come up with original articles. You know the basics in terms of structure and style. There is always room for improvement when it comes to content for your website or your blog. This article shows website content writers and blog writers how to avoid four often overlooked pitfalls.
As an article writer you cannot just put in whatever you want. As a writer, you must be aware of what the reader wants to read when they go over the article. If they see things that they find to be inappropriately placed in the article, they will most likely scrap it and move on to find another that better fits their expectations.
Avoid these four simple oversights when writing your website or blog content:
Unsupported Facts
Details will always be present in an article. Many article writers include details that are not supported by research. In short, they include anything. Readers want to read something that is credible. After all, what's the use of reading when the information you find is plain useless.
Poor Outline
Do you want your reader to feel lost? If your article jumps from one topic or idea to another, your reader will soon tire and go elsewhere. His brain will be on overload trying to make sense of an incoherent article. I'm sure you would not want that.
Poorly Constructed Sentences
One of the basic skills of a writer is, of course, sentence construction. This means that a writer must know how to create sentences, spell words and observe parallelism. Sentence construction is important, as it is the main tool in getting the message across to the readers. If in the first few sentences, the structure is already difficult to understand, the reader will find no use in reading the entire article.
Using Big Words
Surprisingly, most readers read at the fifth to sixth grade level. Using big words that require a dictionary definition will quickly lose your reader. In a short 300-700 article, who wants to stop and get a dictionary to understand you? Not many! Samuel Johnson wrote, "Do not accustom yourself to use big words little matters." That is good advice.
As you gain more experience in article writing you will become aware of many more things that readers do not want to see. Stop and smell the roses, pay attention. Visit writing forums or sign up for a writing course. You are never too old to learn. Avoid the pitfalls mentioned and increase your readership.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/article-marketing-articles/website-content-writing-avoid-these-4-pitfalls-1808869.html
About the Author
Shorten your learning curve, act now read this website content writing review.
Learn more about how to write articles for your website or your blog visit, http://article-writing.newbie-info.com/
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