Five Can’t Miss Web Writing Tips

Paul Lalley, Webwordslinger, is a Helium Premier Author
 

 
 
Writing for the web is a little different from writing for the local newspaper or writing your autobiography. Different things are important to both search engine spiders and to site visitors.
 
As a web writer, you have less than 10 seconds (6.4 seconds according to one study) to capture [...]

What’s better?

Would you rather be good or lucky?
Your assignment? 450 words on why it’s better to be good or better to be lucky.
            Just bleeping do it, noob.

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An Easy Approach to Building a Client Base

Do ONE thing every day that either makes you money writing or has the potential to make you money.
It could be a spec piece, a phone call to the local news editor or signing up on Elance.  (You still haven’t don that?!)
ONE THING a day. Each year you’ll take 365 steps toward making money for [...]

The ABCs of Content Syndication

Content syndication comes straight from page 63 of the Rules of SEO though most noobs don’ t know much about it. A brief primer: content syndicators accept informational content from writers (or at least people familiar with the alphabet) and post these articles for download by webmasters.
In return for the use of that content, the author [...]

Web Copywriter’s Cheat Sheet

Nothing says noobie faster than simple mistakes in writing.
Here’s a little cheat sheet to keep your reader on target.
The Most Common Mistakes

1. There – That place over yonder
    They’re – contrraction of they are
    Their – belong to them
2. its – belonging to it 
     it’s –  the contraction of it is
3.  effects – physical [...]

Web Writing: What Else You Have to Know

You know it’s “i before e except after c,” and maybe you even understand parallel sentence construction. But if you’re going to make money as a web writer, you’ll need to learn several new skill sets.
Here they are.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
It’s an inexact “science” that attempts to manipulate search engines to your clients’ advantage. A [...]

Lesson # 1: Web Writers: What To Ask Your Clients.

Want somebody to tell you how good your writing is? Wrong blog. Writing good copy takes discipline and determination. You got what it takes, grunt?

Welcome to the Web Writer Boot Camp, Grunts.

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