Installing plugins used to be a pain, but now WordPress lets you install plugins from within the backend.

Just go to your Plugins area (click the link on the left sidebar), and click Add New.

Type the plugin name into the Search field, and press the Search Plugins button.

You’ll be presented with a list of plugins, just press the Install button.

Activate your plugin, and you’re done — it takes seconds, rather than an hour or so to upload your plugins via FTP.

Tip: Keep a master list of plugins which you install on every blog, and when you’re creating a new blog, search for each plugin by name, and install them all.

You’ll find more on WordPress and the other blogging platforms on Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training, of course. Enjoy.

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Here’s everything you need to know about guest-blogging, but weren’t sure what to ask: Guest Blogging: The Ultimate Guide.

Great article. The nub however, is that guesting on others’ blogs gets you links:

“Links – Links control the web. If you want rankings on Google, you need links. If you want authority in your niche, you need links. If you want traffic from other blogs, you need links. Guest blogging is a fairly easy way to get custom anchor-text, high quality one way backlinks to your website. There are few other techniques so effective.”

Just make a list of blogs you’d like to guest on, and get in touch with the owners. Most bloggers LOVE to have enthusiastic guests — and they’re harder to find than you might imagine.

Don’t go in cold

If you want to guest blog on a high-ranking blog, don’t go in cold.

Make thoughtful, interesting comments first. Once you become a commenter, the blog’s owner becomes aware of you, and will be much more receptive to an approach from you.

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I’m amazed at the number of small businesses which are moving the bulk of their operations online, as well as by the number of small businesses which are starting up with the sole aim of selling products online — even a year ago this would’ve been looked on as a risky strategy.

With businesses placing such a high emphasis on selling online, it gives great  opportunities for writers. You’re in high demand. Even beginning writers can get writing jobs writing articles.

Can YOU write Web articles?

If you have any writing skills at all, you can write articles. Web articles are very different from articles written for print publications, and they’re much easier to write.

If you read Web articles, you’ll discover that they have certain attributes.  They’re easy to read, they’re relatively short when compared to print articles, and they contain links.

So if you’re in the same position as a lot of people, and need to earn extra money, consider writing web articles.

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But how do you get started?

1. Get Involved in Blogging — Start Your Own Blog

Get started on your new career by creating your own blog. This blog doesn’t need to be a major enterprise: you can just create a small blog on a free blogging site and write several posts.

Your blog is basically an advertisement for your services.

Big tip: don’t blog about yourself. The businesses which hire you want to see what your writing style is like, so your blog’s topic should reflect that. For example, if you want to be hired by business blogs, then write about business topics. If you want to be hired by tech blogs, then write about technology.

2. Get Blog Jobs by Letting People Know They Can Hire You

Next you’ll need to promote Your blog so that people know that you’re available to blog for them. The fastest way to promote your blog is to use advertising. There are many ways in which you can advertise online — including buying ads on websites and blogs, and by using Pay Per Click advertising.

Before you start advertising, ensure that you’ve added a “hire me” page to your blog. This is a vital. People won’t know that you’re a freelance blogger unless you tell them.

Add your contact details to your blog too. Include your cell phone number.

3. Start Small and Get Testimonials

Your aim with your first a few blog jobs is just to get testimonials. The first job you get is always the hardest to get. This is because people don’t know you. As you become well-known, and people hire and give you feedback, you’ll get more blog jobs.

Get started freelance blogging today.

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1. Articles: Short and Long

Articles are basic blog content. Your articles may be short: just 200 words or even less.

They can also be long, if you want to cover a topic authoritatively. Be wary however, if your articles run to 2000 words and more. Long articles are difficult for new writers to control. Ensure that the structure is logical, and that you have a reason for writing at length. As a rule of thumb, any article which is longer than 800 words usually benefits from splitting the content into shorter articles.

2. Link Posts

Link posts are just what they sound like: short posts, withe a list of links. These links may be to others’ sites and blogs, or they may be internal links, to previous posts you’ve written.

Because of blogs’ structure, great posts quickly get buried. New readers will appreciate it if you link to great material you’ve published in the past.

3. Review Posts

You can review affiliate products or anything else you choose. Many people research their purchases online; they want to know what others think of a product they’re considering buying. Therefore, your review posts will be popular.

4. Definition Posts

Definition posts are those posts in which you define something or other. If you’re blogging in the weight loss area for example, you could write definition posts on: obesity, the body mass index, low calorie diets — define anything with which a newcomer to your topic may not be familiar.

5. Tutorial Posts

How-to, guides, and tutorial posts are always appreciated, by newcomers to your topic, and by old-timers too, to brush up on their knowledge.

Your tutorials can be short, or they can be extremely detailed and comprehensive, with images, and videos.

Although tutorials can be time-consuming to create, they’re very popular, so are worth the extra effort.

So there you have five easy types of blog content you can create. Once you become familiar with these, blogging will hold no terrors for you.

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