Have you ever just gotten started on Twitter and several tweets later you think, “This should have been a blog post?” Yeah. Me too. Presenting my Google helpful content update tweets, now in blog format. Writers and Google Helpful Content Update Google has a new “helpful content” update coming out. The goal, according to Google, … Read more
When you start trying to earn money by writing online, there are a lot of things to learn and keep straight. However, the most useful online writing tip to make money is the simplest. Just write something. Current and Fresh = Active and Used When it comes to earning money from your website content writing, … Read more
One of the keys to making money by writing online is to get enough traffic to your money making websites. Ranking highly in search engines for frequently searched terms is one way to accomplish this. While Google updates the algorithm that chooses how to rank websites on their search engine results pages (SERPs) on a … Read more
Whether your are new to writing online to make money, or you have been using your online writing skills for profit for a long time, you probably have put some thought into keyword research. Keyword research is the act of looking at various keywords and key phrases to determine if they will be profitable, or … Read more
Earning money with AdSense relies primarily on getting enough traffic to make it work. If you get enough traffic, most of the rest works out on its own. Of course, that isn’t necessarily true for a large, multi-writer, website, but for us writers looking to make money writing online on our own, that’s how it … Read more
I make over a $1,000 per month blogging on various websites. Technically, I make over $1,000 per month from AdSense and not blogging, but it’s the blogs that bring in the AdSense money, so I suppose it is all relative. The point is that there is an amazing array of SEO tools and traffic analysis … Read more
Interesting post over at the PotPieGirl today. In watching several keywords, she noticed that one of the highly ranked webpages for the very competitive term “make money online” is an EMPTY WEBPAGE! This has apparently been going on for some time, now as well. As it turns out, it used to be the website of … Read more
I’ve put some additional effort into tracking some of the various keywords that I write about for some of my clients. One of the new tools I’m using shows Bing rankings in addition to the more traditional Google rankings. What I’ve noticed can only be considered anecdotal at this point, and has only been observed … Read more
Google pushed out a set of updates to its search ranking algorithm in the first couple months of the year. These changes affected websites and webmasters in waves, with the first update hitting one set of the so-called content mills, and the second wave hitting those who got missed the first time around. After much … Read more
Continued from first page How Content Mills Beat Google. The most well-known Google ranking signal is the number of incoming web links pointing at a webpage. A webpage with 500 incoming links is considered “better” than one with 20 incoming links. While those other ranking signals may have some impact where pages have link counts … Read more
There has been a lot of news lately about how spam-filled Google’s search results pages have become over the last few years. One of the oft blamed culprits are the so-called content mills. A content mill is essentially a website that cranks out high volumes of webpages in order to always have something ranking highly … Read more
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a big concern for many writers and website developers. The concept of SEO runs counter to pretty much everything a good writer learns. SEO suggests that a webpage can rank higher in search engine results pages, or SERPs, based on how well it conforms to certain search engine friendly … Read more