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Web writing: links are powerful and valuable
If you’re new to writing for the web, there’s one thing you need to know, and to remember. It’s this: relevant links are both powerful and valuable. The web is the web because of links, after all.
Links are the foundation of search engine optimization (SEO). They’re the primary way any web page is found online.
In the first few lessons of Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training, I ask you to create several sites.
Some writers tell me that they don’t need to do the “create a site” assignments in the lessons, because they already have a site. We tell them that’s great, but please follow the assignments as written, because there’s a strategy involved, and the more links they have, the better.
Just this morning, Julia wrote in response to a member query:
Start a Blogger blog; link it to your other websites. LINKS are vital; the more the merrier, and the more you’ll show up in the search engine results. So, create as many Blogger blogs as you wish. (Each blog must be genuine, and not created solely for links, that would be spam.)
That aside, there’s no limit on the number of free Blogger and WordPress.com blogs you can create, pointing back to your “real” websites. There’s a reason Angela has so many sites…
Get all the RELEVANT links you can
It’s vital that you get relevant links. As you go through the training, you’ll find that the sites you create start working for you, bringing you traffic via your links, and that as a result of the links, your income rapidly increases.
One point: please notice I said “relevant” links — not just any old links.
Relevant links are those which are relevant: they have something to do with the purpose of the site you’ve created.
Your writer’s portfolio site could have links from your clients (always ask clients to link to you from their sites; some will, some won’t). Your clients may be in many different industries. So you could have links from businesses which sell pet food, or which sell concrete rebar. Neither pet food or rebar are relevant on the face of it, BUT if they link to you using a keyword like “writer” or “freelance writer” or your name, they are relevant.
A warning: beware “we’ll get you to the top of Google” scams
Scammers love to sell linking scams. Therefore, delete any “we’ll get you to the top of Google” email messages you receive.
They’re scams. Here’s why: getting you to the first page of the search engine query results for a valuable and competitive keyword like “freelance writer” is impossible. You need to spend lots of time (and money) to achieve that.
These scammers provide you with totally irrelevant garbage links, which will get you banned from the search engines, so please don’t be misled.
Are you a member of Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training? Join us: you’ll have lots of fun, and you’ll become an established, well paid web writer, more quickly than you believe possible.
Setting up your first website
In Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) you discover how to set up websites and monetize them quickly. As a writer, you’ve got endless opportunities for making money online, once you know how to set up websites.
I’m often asked by subscribers: “What kind of site should I set up first?”
I always advise them to set up their “name” site first. Your name site is the site which has your own name as the domain. For example, my name site is angelabooth.com.
Once you’ve set up your name site, you can set up other sites to make money.
Many of my sites, especially many writing-niche sites (like this site), tend to have lots of content. I also have lots of review sites, in many niches.
Here’s what “Choosing A Topic For A Website” says about review sites:
Review Sites – Review sites are great because all you have to do is review different products and/or services. You can review anything and still make money. You could review cell phones, credit cards, insurance companies, digital cameras, baby products, home and/or garden products, office supplies, books, movies, bedding, clothes, food, or virtually anything else that someone would have an opinion on.
Review sites have many benefits:
* They’re small — usually from three to six pages;
* Because they’re small, they’re fast to set up (think minutes, rather than days)
* They can be highly profitable.
So, get started — set up your first site, and then set up another one. Every site you create is another way for you to boost your income. Enjoy the process: I love creating sites, and once you get into the swing of it, you will too.
Web sites: if you can write, you can create Web sites
A site I set up on Weebly in about ten minutes
Runners Yoga, a site I set up on Weebly in about ten minutes for the first page.
One of the most common questions I’m asked by new Web writers before they join Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) is: “Do I really have to create my own Web sites?”
Here’s the short answer: no, you don’t. You can always hire it done. Just go to getafreelancer.com or another out-sourcing forum, and someone will do it for you for less than $50.
However, you just might want to do it yourself, because there are many free services online that let you create a website in minutes.
For example:
* Squidoo.com
* Blogger.com
* Weebly.com
Weebly has become my own personal favorite: I’ve just paid for a Pro account so I can have more sites (you get two sites in the free version.)
(Basically, I intend to use Weebly to set up sites fast. Weebly sites are incredibly easy and fast to set up. Once I get them making some money, I’ll sell them.)
If you’re just starting to make money writing online, free Weebly is all you need for the first few months — you can set up your online portfolio, can create a blog and in general just get yourself set to really make great money writing.
Discover how to set up your own sites, and make money writing with SYWON.
Selling writing products: sell Squidoo lenses
In Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON), you discover not only how and what to write, but how to sell what you write too.
In early lessons, you learn how to build Squidoo lenses, and as with everything else you learn in SYWON, you can put your new skill to work to make money.
Why not create some “for sale” lenses, as others do?
Create lenses and sell them
I’ve been paying more attention to my Squidoo lenses lately because they’re a great source of backlinks and therefore traffic to my other Web sites and blogs.
I don’t sell lenses, but if I were looking for an additional income stream, I certainly would do. A lens with six or seven modules takes me around half an hour to create, and since lenses sell anywhere from $40 to $200, it’s worth doing.
Enter “buy Squidoo lens” into Google, and you’ll find others who are crafting and selling lenses, which shows that there’s a demand. Many people would like to use Squidoo and fit lenses into their overall marketing, but they don’t want to take the time to build lenses from scratch. This is where you come in.
Transfer a Squidoo lens
Once you’ve sold the lens, you click a button, as above, and transfer the lens to the new owner. Very easy and simple.
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