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Getting Freelance Work

Getting Freelance Work

Getting freelance work is one of the biggest struggles of most freelancers. We are also in the economy where jobs are hard to find, projects are scarce, and people are just not as ambitious. Unfortunately, the bills are still due.... (Continue reading)

What Should I Charge?

What Should I Charge?

The pricing of a freelancer’s services is a well debated topic, as well as the most confusing factor for a new freelancer. We are very creative, but we are not always the most business saavy. We realize upon jumping in... (Continue reading)

SEO For Your Blog- Addition

SEO For Your Blog- Addition

In the last SEO post, called “Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog”, I realized reading over it last night that I forgot a major point. At least to Google, page load time is more crucial than ever. Google has stated,... (Continue reading)

Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog

Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog

In the last post about blogging, we discussed why freelancers, especially freelance writers, should have a blog. We are now gearing up to discuss some intricacies of blogging and how to get it noticed. Please be forewarned that traffic does... (Continue reading)

You Need a Blog

You Need a Blog

I believe every freelancer should have a blog, especially freelance writers. Frankly, I have three. I dabble heavily in the web development world. I have a professional blog attached to my website, I have this website which operates as a... (Continue reading)

Google PageRank Problems: Patent Will Expire, Become Non-Exclusive

This is almost a laughable article to have to write. Google’s PageRank patent expires in 2017, but the patent becomes non-exclusive at an undisclosed time in 2011. Now as you all probably know, the Google PageRank is a website ranking... (Continue reading)

Freelance Success in 2011

Freelance Success in 2011

Happy New Year everyone! It’s a new year. If you are anything like me, you are excited, but cautiously optimistic. For a lot of us, the new year is a new start, a new era, but with new challenges. It... (Continue reading)

Publishing Articles Online

Publishing Articles Online

We have all heard that you should get your articles out there online to gain exposure and link benefit. The problem is that there are so many places to do this, so many ways to go about it, and so... (Continue reading)

Microsoft Partners With Facebook: Trouble for Google?

Microsoft Partners With Facebook: Trouble for Google?

We all know that Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing merged search traffic, making Bing the second most popular search engine, trailing Google by a large margin. Here’s where it gets interesting. Facebook has agreed upon a deeper partnership with Microsoft, spanning... (Continue reading)

How to Self-Publish a Book or E-Book

How to Self-Publish a Book or E-Book

Wow… the topic of self-publishing. Where do we begin? Well, I guess the beginning is good. Before you can think about publishing anything, you need to write it, obviously. Decide what you are writing. Is it a book? Is it... (Continue reading)