Happy Memorial Day to One and All!

Happy Memorial Day!

I hope that you have all had a wonderful and safe weekend and Memorial Day!!

My heartfelt thanks goes out to the many men and women hero's of our armed forces and their families who make such great sacrifices in the name of Freedom. Thank You!!!

GOD BLESS THE USA

Do You Know This Word?

Do You Know this Word?

Do you what the meaning of "nostrum" is? It is a breed of dog It is a remedy that is questionable It means you need to do a booger check It is an acronym used for certain scuba gear It is a type of dish I have no idea! Current Results

Did you like this vocabulary exercise? Would you like to see more of them here? Please share your comments:)

Professional Assoc. for Writers

The Editorial Freelancers Association is a professional association for freelancers whose members represent a diverse range in professions, including writers. You can learn more about this professional association for freelance writers and other freelancers, membership fees, benefits, events and more
Here

I am posting this for writers who might be interested in joining a nationally recognized association for freelance writers. I am not suggesting however, that membership in this or any other professional association for writers is mandatory. Certainly, certifications, degrees, and association affiliations could be worthwhile to many writers. I do not belong to any as of yet, and have not found that to be a hindrance to me in securing an abundance of net writing jobs.

The 3 Primary Keys to Quality SEO

Although there is an overabundance of different search engine optimizing techniques and strategies available for webmasters to take advantage of: the 3 primary components of quality SEO are, content, keywords, and links.

This is especially useful information for the somewhat newer webmaster to know. These three main keys to search engine optimizing your website, free articles, blog and forum posting, email marketing, business promoting, and online advertising campaigns with, will get you solidly on the road to online business success. Later you can spend the time necessary for researching and learning about more advanced seo techniques and strategies.

You are likely to see “Content is King” or similar statements inferring the same message mentioned in scores of SEO related articles and on numerous websites, blogs, forums, and online social networks where webmasters are found. There are many reasons that the virtue of content is, held to such a high degree that it warrants repeated mentions in so many different net locales.

The form and substance of the content that you choose to place on your website has a significant influence in how much attraction it generates for search engines and site visitors. If your content is not enough to lure search engines to index the pages of your website, search users will not be able to find your business website using search assist. You might luck out get picked up by a lone roving search bot or two, but can you afford to rely on the slim possibility of that happening for the success of your business? Good content is necessary in your online business advertising, email marketing, in the blog and forum posts you make to drive traffic to your site, and when promoting your business through free article submissions.

Content falls flat of course if it is not properly infused with the keywords and phrases that search engines, search users, and traffic coming to your website from other destinations expect that a business such as yours to have. If the content on your site has little if any relation to what your company sells or offers to the public, you can expect them all to move on real quick. Diligent research is necessary for rooting out the keywords and phrases that should be in use on your website and in all your online business-promoting activities.

Links are important as well. Building quality links, anchor links, backlinks, (internal and external links) for your website will help raise its page rank in search engines. Furthermore, they help visitors to navigate through your website easier, and to provide them with appealing redirects to more information of interest to them. All of this combined creates compelling reasons for search engines to crawl and index the pages of your website, and for visitors to read your entire website with a higher potential for them to become new customers. Links plucked at random from cyberspace are more harmful than useful for webmasters.

We will dig deeper into how to accomplish these important tasks along with many others like Meta tags, html code, sitemaps, traffic generators, search submit, etc, for the success of your online business, in separate articles you will find in the database for webmasters.

About: Knowledge Database for Webmasters

Many of the wonderful people who purchase articles and other content from professional freelance writers like me, are also webmasters needing information and resources to help them build and promote their online business sites. I have learned quite a bit about seo, traffic generating, internet marketing, and business promoting over the years as a webmaster myself since 2003. I have read volumes of material covering these subjects through the years and have tested many of the techniques and strategies they suggested.

The results of my many years of putting them to the test has allowed me to build a list of effective search engine optimizing techniques, high traffic generating tips and tools, captivating internet marketing strategies, and powerful business promoting methods.
I will share the knowledge I have gained in all my time as a webmaster and working online for you to benefit from by addressing each of these subjects in various articles.

Please be patient as I build this knowledge database for webmasters. I will add informative articles to it as quickly as possible so that you can reap the benefits of all that I have learned from my years of research and testing.

I wanted to mention to new readers that since the NetWrite blog also has a chat forum, which presents information and resources for webmasters, that I will be splitting articles and links to further research and tools for webmasters between this blog and the NetBiz Network Forum.

There is a two-fold purpose for me doing this. It helps to avoid duplicating content. It also provides webmasters who find their way to the forum before discovering this blog access to resources on the forum and a link back (top left of forum page)to this blog for more resources. I would suggest visiting both of them often in order to find all the information and resources contained in each of these knowledge databases for webmasters.

As I have said before, if you have information and knowledge to pass along to other readers, please do, using the comment box, or you can mail your comments and suggestions for future articles to me.

The Marketing Power of an Opt-In List

Your online business can soar to new heights with a powerful opt-in list. You can build one gargantuan opt-in list and then duplicate that same winning formula to build multiple big and profitable opt-in lists for your business. Why are opt-in lists such a powerfully effective marketing tool for business owners?

An opt-in list by its very name tells you that this is a list populated by people who OPT to place their names on your business list to receive information about your products and services and offers from your company to purchase those products and services. They do this because they have a high interest in the products and services that your business offers. You can easily deduce that people with a higher interest in the products and services that you sell are more likely to make purchases from your business. You could spend a great deal of your time trying to convince “cold contacts” as to why they should want to buy a product or service from you and not get the same high sales response from them.

Building a large opt-in list may take you awhile the first time around as you become more familiar with the best methods there are for building them. In fact, there are numerous ways to build solid opt-in lists. For the most part though, none of them is as complicated as those who would like to sell you their opt-in list building services would like you to believe. We will explore some of the best ways for you to build a powerfully effective opt-in list for your business in subsequent articles.

However, here is one to give you a start on building an opt-in list for higher sales and profits. Have a contest that rewards a winner with a prize. People love getting free stuff! You can either offer one of your products as a prize, or purchase a low-cost branded business promotional item to offer as a prize. Create a form to place on your website that allows people to enter your contest easily and conveniently. ( All Forms lets you create forms to use for this purpose at no cost. Web Address: http://allforms.mailjol.net/ ) When someone uses the form on your website to enter the contest your business is sponsoring, this person is also opting to receive future offers from you. These forms are essentially an opt-in list that provides you with the information needed for future marketing campaigns. Now how easy is that?

I hope you found this article helpful and will come back to read additional articles on opt-in lists, and building them with ease.

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This Writer Has Had Enough With A Particular Writing Jobs Board

What you are about to read here about what I consider to be absolutely the worst place for online writers and content seekers alike, is strictly my own opinion.

The write jobs bidding board site that I cannot stand is that one that tells article buyers to get freelancers. Which from pursuing post after post for over two years now, I guess means an open invitation for content seekers to lowball writers with measly offers of compensation for writing articles for them? Like $1.00- $2.00 for a 500 word article! The fact that there are writers from another region of the world more than happy to accept such exploitation of their writing talents and labors does not help the situation either.

Two and half years ago, I sent a message to this job board’s owner to explain my frustration and disappointment that they allowed such practices. I received a reply back from them after a couple of weeks, in which they said that they were working on correcting these issues so that writers would be presented with projects offering just compensation, for their services only. The board owners assured me that content seekers who continued to make outrageous job projects like $30 for 50/ 800 word articles would find themselves banned from the site. Yeah right. In my inbox, this morning was another list from them of writing jobs created by content seekers offering next to nothing for quite a lot of work.

I am a rather patient person and that is why I have given them so long to change their ways before parting with them for good. I have no respect for the company running this board and continuing to allow these unfair practices to writers. I have even less respect for the content seekers guilty of these practices, which are the outright exploitation of the writers there, no matter how willing some of them may be. It would serve these underhanded content seekers to get poor quality content to match their unbelievably poor pay rates. I have to say that there are ethical content seekers in the mix who do offer writers respectable amounts of pay. However, the ones with little if any apparent ethics literally bury those who are willing to offer writers due compensation for their written works.

At the time, that I made contact with the company behind this job board to let them know of my dissatisfaction with the dismal substance of the writing jobs being offered there, I expressed a concern for new writers who might think they had to accept such low pay to get a start in online writing. I still have that concern today.

Although you may have to start out on a lower paying scale for writing an article that say I do now with the experience I have as a ten-plus online freelance writer. That does not mean you have to accept $2.50 for a 500-word article, because you are a new writer without any writing credentials to show a client. You may have to do a few of these 500 word articles for $5 each, but no lower than that. Only agree to do a few of them to give a client a chance to evaluate your writing skills.

It is wonderful that there are people out there who are willing to give new writers a chance to prove themselves. The opportunity to get our feet wet as new online writers is why many of us are willing to take a little less pay for our writing work in the beginning. Just be careful not to sell yourself and your writing skill too short. Luckily, the decent people who buy articles and other content from writers respect the work that we do, and are willing to pay a decent amount for our writing services. They may ask for a lower fee during an initial evaluation phase of receiving content from a brand new writer. However, they will typically offer to increase your pay after you write a few articles for them.

If the person or company that you are dealing with only wants you to keep writing articles indefinitely on a low pay scale, politely tell them you have taken on new clients and cannot continue providing content for them. I say politely, because we should all be careful about the bridges we burn behind us. I also unequivocally say that you should move on if you do not see higher pay in it for you within a reasonable period and number of produced articles. There are plenty of respectable content buyers out there more than willing to pay professional freelance writers fair wages for their services. To them I say “Thank You!” I really appreciate the clients that make it possible for me to afford to do the writing work that I love so much.

I only made a real-close association to the actual name of this shoddy writing job board at the start of this article to protect myself from possible litigation. I am sure many of you have heard of this place or can figure out its name anyway. Have you had an experience with them similar to mine? Alternatively, have you had a positive experience with them that you would like to share with readers? Click on the comments tab to leave your comments if the comment box is not already open.

Promotional Tools for Writers, Content Buyers, and Webmasters

Hi Everyone!

At some point in the very near future, I will be publishing a list of promotional tools here on the blog for content buyers, webmasters, and writers to use. However, I wanted to alert first-time visitors to this blog who have not yet made it over to the NetWrite Chat Forum,(now NetBiz Network) to the promoting tools waiting there for them. You can find them here. I of course invite you to join our chat community too.

Are Free Articles Worth a Writers Time?

Is writing and submitting free articles online a good idea for writers? It certainly can be for several reasons.

Writers can write on the subjects that they know or feel most passionate about. Writing about familiar subjects generally makes it easier for a writer to generate several articles a week for distributing to free article directories.

Some of you might be thinking, “Yeah, but I won’t make any money off of free articles.” You do not make any up-front fees for the free articles that you create and display for others to see online. However, that is only a narrow view of what submitting free articles can mean for freelance writers, and especially net writers.

The broader picture here is that by submitting free articles, you can create a strong online presence for yourself as a freelance writer, promote your writing services and website, and gain increasing numbers of devoted followers. Accomplishing all of this through article creation, which should be a breeze for most writers, is a bigger payoff than receiving $5-$20 for an article would be, if you really think about it.

Establishing oneself online is a priority for internet and other writers. Producing free articles for web distribution is a very effective means for doing that. Each of your articles will include your bio (read submission guidelines for any restrictions on length) and a link to your website or blog, to help drive more traffic to them. You can also choose to provide contact information such as an email address so that folks interested in contacting you for your writing services, can do so.

The more articles that you write and place online, the wider your audience of dedicated readers can become. This can help you to build an extensive fan customer base of people eager to purchase your books and other works.

Writing and submitting free articles to online article databases is simple and has many benefits for net writers, and other freelance writers wanting to get the word out about their writing talents, and for securing more of the writing gigs that pay us well for what we love to do. Write!

I will be supplying the names and links to the free article directories that I use for submitting free articles to in a future post. Did you find this article helpful? Please share your thoughts on this subject of free articles and writers, with all of us.

Happy Mother's Day 2009

Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there!!!

I hope that you have a wonderful day surrounded by those you love and give so much of yourself to.

The Advantages to Hiring Professional Freelance Writers

There are many advantages to relying upon a professional freelance writer to provide you with dynamic content for your business.

1. Professional freelance writers have the expertise to create vibrant articles and content for use in a variety of business purposes.

2. Choosing to outsource your businesses content needs to professional freelance writers is an important step in managing your time and resources well for success.

3. The dynamic content for your business website that a professional freelance writer can skillfully put together for you will boost its page ranking assigned by search engines.

4. Search engine optimized articles and content is highly attractive to the search robots that crawl websites for indexing. Most professional freelance writers who write articles and content for the web have a great deal of experience with SEO.

5. Business websites that provide visitors with educational, enlightening, entertaining, and engaging webpage content, articles, and interactive features, have higher traffic streaming to them and higher conversions of traffic into customers. A professional freelance writer can provide you and your business with the content materials needed to make this happen.

6. Professional freelance writers create persuasive and cleverly worded articles and advertising materials that can be powerful call-to-action incentives for drawing in new customers for your business.

7. Well-researched articles and other content materials can help you to foster strong business relationships with your customers. Professional freelance writers have honed their researching skills in order to be successful in the very competitive realm of freelance writing.

8. Highly interactive and interesting newsletters created by professional freelance writers can help businesses to grow multiple customer bases and to build profitable opt-in lists.

9. Outsourcing to a professional freelance writer is more affordable than delegating the task of constructing various polished content materials for your business to an employee.

10. You can grow your business and encourage more sales and profits through the premium writing services that professional freelance writers can offer to business owners.

There you have it. Ten compelling reasons to consider contracting with a professional freelance writer, or several writers to provide you and your business with superior content to help you accomplish your goals of great success in business. Take advantage of all that professional freelance writers have to offer by enlisting their aid in helping to raise your business to new heights today. ((I am always accepting new clients and have a team of writers ready to work with me on larger writing projects. Send your content requests to the writers at The Write Station, via our email address. twsstaff@yahoo.com ))

Freelance Writers and Blogs

Having your own blog, or even several blogs, offers many advantages to freelance writers. However, they can also be detrimental to a freelance writing career if you are not careful. What are some of the advantages to having your own blog, or blogging as a guest in other blogs frequently?

•They can help freelance writers to create and maintain a powerful internet presence.

• Blogs can help freelance writers to display their writing talents to the world and to establish themselves as experts on the subjects they blog about.

•An RSS Feed from your blog can help build readership.

• Your blog can be used to market and sell your e-books and writing services to readers.

•You can point prospective clients to your blog(s) to view your writing style on various subjects when they request samples of your writing.

•With your own blog, you have more creative writing freedom than when you are writing articles and other content for clients.

• Blogging as a guest in other blogs helps build recognition of your name, skills, and knowledge as a freelance writer on different subjects among a broader audience, and you can link your comments back to your own blog, to generate more traffic for your blog.

• Your blog can create an extra stream of income for you and there are blogs that will pay you for making dally, weekly, or monthly blog entries on a wide variety of subjects, for even more income potential.

What are some of the disadvantages to a blog and blogging, which can be detrimental to a freelance writing career?

• Blogging on controversial subjects could be a turn off to some prospective clients.

• Once you have blogged about something, it will be permanently available for others to see. Even deleting blog posts and comments will not ensure that search engines have not already cached them for displaying in search result windows.

•When promoting yourself as a freelance writer through a blog you have to check and then double and triple-check every sentence for proper grammar usage and spelling, to make sure it is free from errors. Someone who has a blog for fun or as a hobby might get away with sloppy blog postings, with freelance writers on the other hand, polished copy, even in blogs, is an expectation you must accept and meet for success as a writer.

•When you blog as a guest in other blogs that permit or write their own questionable content, you run the risk of readers associating you with those blogs and the negative or offensive content they contain. You should read blogs thoroughly before sending entries to blog owners for posting, or leaving comments to them, in order to make sure they best represent you as a freelance writer, and the image of yourself that you want to project to the world.

• Keeping up with a single blog so that you are providing readers with a constant flow of fresh and interesting content to view is not easy. Add multiple blogs to the mix can make it even harder to maintain blogs readers will be enticed into visiting often.

•Some blog entries might be better turned into full-blown articles, and put up for sale to earn you money, rather than used as posts for your blog. Although, it is possible to use snippets from blog posts to enhance articles you write and offer for sale.

• Promoting your blog to increase readership can require a lot of your time and effort.

Overall, I think blogs are great tools for freelance writers to present their writing skills to clients and others in the favorable light that the popularity of blogs presents. It also gives writers another outlet for expressing the creativity that drives them as writers. I would only caution writers to be sure that they want others to see and read something that they have written before permanently placing it into cyber-space for all time to come.

Crossword Puzzle for Writers

If you are a fan of crossword puzzles, you are welcome to "copy and paste" this one into your word or document program, and them print it out and have fun! I am sorry that all the rows are not lining up perfectly...maybe I can do better next time. LOL

D A O W N E D I T O R T H S W T R
Y Z E A N L U Y R A B S G T X P O
J R M R M A N Y E P B I K O J I A
I K A J E Q G H A J O N Q H I R B
M L N J Q V R W D A O O D R N C H
O S N F M H I I E H K G S O T S O
S Y E J D Y N E R S P A E W N U X
C M P U A K P X W S M T I C E N J
R R E T I R W T E N Q O T O G A F
I C K N X J C J Y A W R L R A M D
P R O H T U A U A F F P A E H H F
T A N T A G O N I S T H Y H Q V Z
T Q S C R E E N P B D X O R S V Z
V V C X Y H S I L B U P R E X X C
Y Y Q K Y O S N V S N O V U Z Z L
Q S I L L U S T R A T I O N P S K
B C S T O R Y B O A R D M S L L P

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Agent
Manuscript
Screen
Antagonist
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Penname
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Research-Reference Sites for Writers

Net writers and other writers need quality resources where they can find researched and catalogued information and facts on various subjects to aid them in creating high quality, and polished written works. I am providing in this post links to some of the sites I use to find reliable information and reference materials when I am conducting research on subjects I am not very familiar with, to get a better understanding of them before I begin writing about them.

It should already be understood what the intended use for these sites is, but just in case there is any doubt, let me put it to you in clear terms here and now. These researched and catalogued sites provide information and facts that writers can glean further understanding from on a wide variety of subjects they want to write about but are not well versed in themselves. The information and facts that you find through such useful sites are not there for you to copy or copy and paste into the documents that you are working on. That would be stealing and an infringement on the copyright laws protecting the original authors of the materials found on research and reference sites.

Now that we have gotten the legal and ethical use of the many online research sites writers can use to familiarize themselves with a huge array of subjects out of the way, here are the five research sites that I use the most, in random order. I will admit though that I use numbers (1 and 5) more frequently than the rest of those on my list. Yep, you will have to keep reading or scroll down, to find out what the two research sites I use most are.




!. http://www.about.com/ Scores of articles on many different subjects found here.

2. http://www.ehow.com/ Many articles on a vast array of subjects in a how-to format

3. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Plenty of useful articles various subjects outlining how that stuff works

4. http://www.webmd.com/ Useful informational articles on medical conditions, treatments, medicines and side effects, and health tips

5. http://www.wikipedia.com/ Find informational user-developed articles on almost every subject you can imagine, and even some you have never thought of


If you know of some more useful research-reference sites writers may want to visit to look for reliable reference materials to help them in their writing, please share them in this thread Thanks.