Online Writing by Fran Aslam

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Information technology revolution has started.  Every one is recognizing and talking about it.  Free contents and paid online contents both may take a much higher crunch towards prosperity.

Great Opportunity for Bloggers  to Get Paid As Many Times As Blog Post Is Read.

Free contents are articles news and blogs and other free information on the Internet.  Since people are eager to buy and use latest new technology for ease and comfort, even in the sluggish economy, why not use the ebook reading devices for free contents also as a paid gig.  Any search that asks for article or blogs on a certain topics will pay to read articles or blog posts.  Just like ebooks, blog conetnts are becoming very popular every day.

When blogs content are channeled for marketing distribution towards reading devices blogs content on any topic can become paid services for those who need to use this information.  As this market already exists.  All online blogs writer will take this idea very positively.  It is going to be a profitable business whoever takes it over.  This idea seems to be full of Information technology challenges right now, but has lots of advantages for revenues.  A team of technology experts and marketing gurus from the top companies like Amazon Google Microsoft can figure out a solution.

Books are here with us from the primitive stages of human life.  People wrote their own script on stones and skin.  Pages and script changed with time and development but preserving information stayed the same for last fifteen hundred years.  Now it is time that ink and paper change to pixels for a greater information technology role.

Ebooks are here for a while and they are here to stay.  If you are looking to self publish there is no better choice than the ebook.  since it’s merely a digital file.  It is very inexpensive format for selling.  distribution is simple and is delivered the same minute you buy it any time of the 24 hours of the day.

Right now there are several formats but two major formats that are being used by several reading devices.  If you are very serious about your book to really sell and continue selling for a long time you have to produce it in one of these two formats.

Kindle as you know is Amazon’s ebook format and most popular right now.  But for you to get your book published in Kindle format you will not have page number like a hard cover book.  Ebooks compatible to Kindle format do not have:

• page numbers
• Images of any kind
• has Build in dictionary
• Connects to wikipedia
• Have another feature called Nownow, it is a search service
• It’s battery is to be charged after almost every 24 hours.

The next format, is named as ePub.  This is the format of all other major players for the reading devices.  apple’s iBook store, Barnes Nobles Nook Store, Sony’s reader store and Borders Kobo store, all have ePub format.

if you need to make your epub document there are a number of open source programs out there that simplifies the process.  Calibre, is supposed to be a very efficient to create ePub.  Calibre is a book management program that supports a huge variety of file formats including Rich Format Text, as well as PDF.

Therefore, with the information technology revolution once you write, self publish your ebook and are looking forward to make a continuous income with it for several years to come make sure to publish it in the most lasting format which I feel right now is Kindle.  If that is hard andyou want to use good old computer for your ebook then PDF is the easiest format.

The future of ebook is one of the popular hot debate going on by top leaders of the industry.  It is a conversation topic from Wall Street Joutnal to E-magazines.  Many are interested in the commercial development and security of the copy rights.

Hard cover book publishers are already in an awe to see the evolution of digital publications and distribution.  Adobe and Microsfot are working around the clock to come up with a plan to develop their digital rights management platforms.  Hard book publishers are planning a successful plan for an economic turn that will last their business in coming 400 to 500 years.  The slower than expected adoption of ebooks has not helped this transition.

Ebooks are becoming popular:

New ebook publishers are signing up every month.  The future of the ebook feels very great.  The site ebooks dot com is getting thousands of new comers and the numbers  just keep growing.

Reading Devices for ebooks:

Sony’s reader device supports for adobe’s PDF format files.  This reader can display several other formats.  But if you want to buy book’s for the Sony readers, you will have to use Sony connect ebook  store via your computer.  These books are protected with the digital rights management which limits the number of reader devices on which they can be displayed.

Amazon Kindle Device is managed just the same.  It supports many ebook format but if you want to purchase an ebook specific to kindle, you must do that through amazon Kindle store.

Also, if an ebook writer or publisher wants to offer the book in an ebook format, Amazon specific format can not be viewed on Sony’s reader and Sony’s specific book format can not be viewed at Amazon.  In case you want to have an ebook viewed on all book readers like Sony, Kindle and Barn and Nobles you have to have a separate files for each format.

Method of purchase – Will it change with other changes?

This market is so new that a store front is necessary to purchase and download new content.  Contents are available with limited resources.  Just as publishers must write several versions of their mobile content to accommodate black berries iPhones and other devices the coding of ebooks can have multiple readers acceptability.  All this requires a secure and new methods of purchase that are to come with the ebooks with multiple readers device acceptability.

So, the future of ebook and books is in a non decisive condition.  There are multiple choices for every step but they are hardly convenient. Searches and methods of creating the best way to handle all books and ebooks have yet to be finalized for the future.  Hard cover books are here to stay.  But ebooks will will become more popular because they create much more ease of reading and life in general and because people are eager to add digital information technology to improve their life.

Writing an ebook is a popular activity for Internet suvvy people.  Internet is full of people who  make millions of Dollars writing and selling their own ebooks. Here are some of the examples, these writers made huge income being Independent writers and producing great income with ebooks.

• Bert Ingley – started his graphic design Career and love of sports and video games made him started writing eBooks on how to win at popular sporting video games producing $187, 000.00 in one year.

• Barbara Jennings – started working with Home Interior Decorating after a coaching course from Cori Rudy.  Few years after coaching Interior designing, via Internet she started writing ebooks.  She wrote several eBooks like Decor Secrets Revealed, Advanced Redesign and Pro Art Consulting and several others, producing a great income.  Now she works 30 t0 60 minutes a day to maintain her business.  In her spare time she still writes ebooks.

• Stuart – Lichtman – an MIT graduate, wrote and sold ebooks after working several years running 100 companies and training more than 50,00 people.  His first ebook made $61,662.00 in 32 days.

There are several others who are doing the same, proving the importance of ebooks  and the fact, how anyone can make money using Internet marketing tools.  The abundance of online free ebooks  at times artificially creates the low image of ebook in every ones perception.  But still do not forget the fact that there is a huge number of most important ebooks that  can never loose its high value.   Many of those ebooks have a high price value too.  For example The Super Affiliate Hand Book by Rosalind Gardner.

The question is how to create ebook that sells so much and never loose its value?

Find a Market:

Research and Research again, find a great market, something that people need all the time.  These people are desperate to get this information.  They are ready to buy an ebook as soon as published.

Creating eBook:

Write the ebook with all the information in such a way that it provides comprehensive details to your market the way they will like it.

1.  The ebook has to be full of real content.  Facts example story all well related and qualitative information your market was expecting to get.   Every reader understands the difference between factual content and fluff.  Specially when they have to apply the knowledge from the ebook to fulfill the need they are waiting for.

2.  Use readers perspective and be personal:

a.  If you did understand your reader and their requirements before writing the ebook you will be able to write the best seller.

b.  Target the market and its results in anticipation.  There are several ways of doing it for example, you may find the average age of your reader and write the book in their language and their terms so the book creates a positive impression on them right away.

c.  Use their emotions while writing the ebook.  Imagine your target market and the way they feel about the information, provide comfort and ease while providing them this information so they feel really satisfied when they read your ebook.

d.  When you are presenting the solution to their problem make them feel that your solution is the best way to solve their problem.  Do this by examples stories or proof which ever works best depending on the situation.  By concentrating target readers problems or helping them to avoid a pain or even by helping them achieve an important pleasure you will make your ebook a best seller.

3.   Make it easy to understand:

Whatever may be the topic of your ebook make sure it is explained in simple English.  Use your writing skills to make the ebook easy yo understand.  Bring your information down to the most easily understood level.  Every one will be able to use the book and the number of buyers will be more.

4. Editing and Proofreading:

Make sure the book is edited properly and there are no visible grammatical and spelling errors as it is a killer.  Even an average book is supposed to be away from these mistakes and for a best seller it is very important to have the quality everyone can accept.

Regardless of your topic and writing style, you can create a popular best selling ebook.  Just follow the vital and simple tips and make sure your reader is getting most of it.

The next step is to let this market know about the product that you have created by marketing everywhere.  Use promotional marketing, consult PPC expert and write  free advertising ads, everywhere possible, so everyone know about the ebook.  Now you are all set for making a great income with this ebook.

Blogging is a main stream activity for last several years on the Internet and it is multiplying every year.  New bloggers  who join the blogsphere need readership to their blogs and therefore, guest blogging  was introduced.  The objective is to provide a platform for the new and established blog writers.

Since it involves two parties, guest blogging is chosen and planned very carefully,  the need to secure all the possibilities for the success of both parties is even  important than one alone.  All measures are taken to make sure both come out of it with flying colors.

A written agreement that points out the action boundaries for each step for both the parties will make them move successful within those limits, one agreed upon.

• Once a guest blogger has added the post to the hosts blog, the post is linked to the host blog and guest’s original blog for traffic purposes.  Linking is fine as it is a post written by the poster, but how many times?  A constant linking does not pay and in some cases may even hurt the host blogger.  so there has to be a clear agreement for this situation.

• The host blogger should agree to have a byline about the guest blogger’s blog.  This byline will be indexed by the search engines to provide traffic to the guest blog and at the same time readers will get to know the details about guest’s own blog.

However, some exceptions exist here.  When both the blogs are relevant and add value of the post, self linking to the post is okay.  Self linking to the first paragraph is acceptable by the guest blogger and in some situation link in the bottom of the post if required and agreed upon in the agreement.

How Can A Guest Blogger Enhance This Experience With Some Extra Work

Guest Blogging can be a single post, invitation to the guest or may be one full week of daily posts or even in some cases it could be two weeks of blog posts for the guest to write.  Just depend on the contract and need of the blog owner.  At this time how does a guest blogger handles the blog entries?   Do not simply behave as if you know everything about blogging and can do it any ways.   But read the blog carefully and make a plan, a plan that gives you all name and fame to do the job.  To get the best reputation do the following:

• Research the blog by reading it carefully.
  

1. Think of the blog readers and what will they like to know more about.
2. Get to know the writing style of the blogger.
3. What are the unwritten rules of the blog that you have to write.  Get to know as much as possible to use it while writing posts.

These points will be  helpful for writing a post that readers will like to read, as they like the style of the host blogger.

• Write in your own style:

This does not mean you have t copy the style of the host.  Be yourself as your name is there and readers know it is a different writer.  In case you copied the host you will not be able to express yourself impressively.  Therefore, do the best as you can and do not take the blog to a completely different direction.

• Show  all you got:

if you are an eager blogger to get credibility to your blog, you will show some extra capabilities by reading the blog carefully and noticing what is missing that his audience will like to have.  Add the unique touch to the blog with the same discussion.  That will make you recognized by the audience, that you got the readers a more fuller picture of the topic in discussion.

• Some other minor points to pay attention are:

1. Host blogger must see the title of the post before submitting.
2. Host blogger must see the post before submitting.
3. Host blogger must know the length of the post before publishing.
4. Publication rights must be discussed in the agreement for as many days as needed.
5. Accept only digital submission.
6. Schedule publication date of the posts with the guest blogger.

If every necessary step of the blog posting is discussed ahead of time in writing there is no reason for the guest blogging to go sour.  Both parties are eager to do it and they will try their best to do it.  An agreement for guest blogging is an important factor to determine its success.  Remember extra effort and care brings excellent results and that is what you are looking forward to.

When a guest blogger creates a post on an established blog with it’s owners permission it is termed as Guest blogging.  Guest posting is a friend’s feed which benefits both the host blogger and the guest.  it creates more net working opportunities for the blog owner and the poster both.  Since guest post is a planned special post it has all the best features of a post enhanced and optimized, that is SEO Contents and Links.

In order to get traffic from search engines you need to have fresh contents and links.  Contents are needed by search engines to read.  The more content you have the more chances you have to appear in search engines again and again.  The more contents you have the more links you can create.  Google’s page rank formula used to be based on links between sites to establish the rank of the sites.  Building links is an important part of the SEO campaigns.

In blogsphere, guest posts and its links are very important to create a higher visibility.  These links are popular because links create free and permanent text links.  Articles also do the same job.  but then again a guest post most of the time is written with very relevant and fresh blog contents, as blog poster is over cautious and want to prove to be a blog content writer,  Google approves guest posts as these posts can easily use anchor text links to the main keywords you need to link text or anchor text.

Guest posts are also important because they have great value for the blogger and blog writers.  In many cases these posts stay longer on the home page of the blog.

• These guest posts are promoted by the poster and the blog itself.  This brings a very high volume of traffic to the blog and the guest poster blogger.  This creates a great situation for both.  An increase in the readership for both parties is a great benefit of guest post.

• Since these posts are planned by two parties, it is a brain drain of the two people.  From planning to agreement and then the post itself is written with stricter compliance policies, for contents and links and SEO tactics.  This post has most latest new information than an average blog post and it uses more resourcefulness than a regular article.  Naturally the readership is more.  A guest post provides an extraordinary benefits to all including the readers.

• Guest blogging creates more networking opportunities for the blog owner and poster both.  Page rank goes up and the popularity boosts.

But at the same time, sometimes it does not work out so well for some.  In order to control this drawback we can always work on an agreement between the parties and come over this problem.  I will discuss this in the next post.

Until then

Keep Writing

I came to know of Google Caffeine in summer 2009, when I was searching to read about Google free traffic options.  Google Caffeine was announced in November 2009.  It launched in June, 2010 and it is all about Google search technology infrastructure.

Google blog and Google’s engineer Matt Cutts called it a new indexing system.  Google Caffeine is based on the changes in the basic frame work of indexing, that ensures faster results.  So far changes to your specific web design and site structure do not seem to be forth coming and your overall Google experience will not change much at all.

So, what did Google Caffeine bring for an online writer?  Changes in the search and indexing will help online writers to save time.  Google caffeine has a new way of search index which is not much different than before for the user except:

1.  Search is much faster than before due to the new changes to Google search technology.

2.  Google Caffeine indexes new and relevant information much faster then before.

So for everyone Google now provides most accurate and more relevant search at a much faster speed.

Google Caffeine as the name itself tells is an added energy to Google’s already successful search engine and search index.  This is an effort from Google to index more of the web and provide more relevant results for each query, caffeine is utilizing real live search traffic that previously was used by breaking news stories only.

Google was taking twenty four to forty-eight hours to optimize the new searches where as the increased rush of information from Twitter and Facebook is much faster than this.  So, Google has to change the infrastructure of indexing to a faster version  to keep its position at the top of search engine on the world wide web.

Key words and its use is going to play major role in the Google Caffeine.  Semantic searches are becoming more important now with the application of Google Caffeine.

Benefits To Online Writers:

1.  Easier Access To Information:

It is much easier to get information with Google Caffeine and so it’s great help to students and professionals and knowledge seekers in any form and shape.  Writers who are always searching for the latest information to add to their portfolio can use Google Caffeine to upgrade their knowledge with Google Search.  Though critics, and those who see the glass empty in any case, say it is adding more to the confusion of information overload Internet obsessed people.

2.   Breaking News As Top Search Results:

Breaking news stories are expected to remain at the top results.  While friend feed is more likely to score a top spot of the videos and images, this might bring less relevant results for searches.  But it is not yet proven.

Now how this benefits apply to writers.  To get the best results as a writer, try your best to publish the latest information, your articles will get # 1 rank in search results in few minutes of being published, if you are using the right key words and search engine optimization techniques, as needed.

3.  Page Load Up Time:

A higher speed that Google Caffeine is claiming, will help all of us in the loading up of the pages when searching.  With the extra Caffeine jolt in 2010 the page load time must diminish from two seconds to what…is yet to be noticed.

4.   Keywords and phrases:

Importance to keywords and phrases has become a notch higher than before.  As relevancy of the keywords is very important to search engine optimization.  This is an important factor for the pages to be indexed faster than before.  As a writer you have to make sure that the keywords you are using in your articles must be relevant and with medium or low search numbers.

5. Organic Listings and PPC:

Caffeine emphasizes the importance of organic listings and that is why they have paid more attention to Google search technology.  PPC will get even more importance, as PPC is paid advertisement and needs results faster than organic listings.

So, Google Caffeine is only to implement better search by changing the indexing system that will make Google more compatible, and search results will not take 24-48 hours, but as soon as possible, that is in minutes.

To get ranking in the search engines everyone will have to pay more attention to search engine optimization and keywords.  Online writers have to produce better contents with relevant keywords and unique methods to express so they can easily get high ranking by getting the same attention as breaking news.

To check updates go here:

http://www2.Sandbox.google.com

Interesting in learning more about Google updates here are few resources:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blogexplaining-algorithm-updates-and-data-refreshes/

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whats-as-update

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/caffeine-update

http://www.searchengineland..com/googles-new-indexing-infrastructure-caffeine-noe-live-43891

Until next time

This is Fran Aslam saying

Happy writing

Writing articles for professional success, you have to write too many articles every day.  Time is always scanty for this time consuming activity.  So the best solution to continue writing articles is to find strategies that will increase the number of articles written in the same time.  This will give you increase productivity which means more benefits, and more benefits usually result in making more money.

It sounds like a great idea to be able to write two articles in the time you write one article now.  You will be able to write 60 articles in a month if you are writing one article in one day and 720 articles in one year.  From 360 to 720, in other words you have doubled your article production.  The secret to this success is easy and achievable, if you time yourself for two weeks with the following planned stretegies in mind:

1.  Research time of the article:

If you are writing in your niche it is very easy to control this time because you already know so much about your own niche.  If you do need to search information, time it,  read and write the conlusion of your search along with the reference and the exact page number if available.  If you are searching online bookmark it.  Since you write every day and need to search everyday, you may separate writing time and research time.  Search two three topics and write conclusion and reference of each search.  Now you have relevant fresh information.  Remember simply adopt the information, not the words and style of the writer.

2. Keywords:

For key words search, you have to save all the key words that you use, so you have a custom database of key words of your own.  You can do this online or offline whichever is faster to use for you.  This will save more than half the time of the keyword search for the articles that you will be writing.

3.  Create an outline for your article:

Outline for the article reduces thinking and organization time.  Write 3-7 points for your articles.  Make sure you write fast.  It might feel you are wasting your time, making an outline but if you look into it carefully you will feel it is actually saving time.  If you do not have an outline many times you end up thinking and deciding exactly what to write.

4.  Speed write your article:

Practice key boarding online and type 75-80 words per minute.  In case you are making mistakes do not worry about it.  Focus on writing speed and fingers on the right keys and if there are a few mistakes correct them with spelling and Grammar checker.  Speed writing may seem harder in the beginning but with persuation you will start enjoying it.  I am sure your dedication focus and practice will get you this project achieved in a week.

5. Proof read and edit your articles:

You have already saved a lot of time from your article, do not save anytime in proof reading as it is very important to be careful and get rid of all spelling and grammatical errors of the articles before submitting it to the directories or posting it where it is supposed to go.  Do not depend solely on the computer software for grammatical and spelling errors. Check it yourself.  This is it you are on your way to double production and focused effective  time management.

Some of you asked me and I delivered.  New bloggers who have not studied all the blogging strategies and are not aware of the history of blogging , don’t know some of the basic concepts used in blog terminology.  Confusion about keywords and tags is very common.  So, I wrote this post to let some of my readers know the difference and make use of the information properly.   Please let me know if you have further questions.

Tags:

For online presence, a tag is a term used to a piece of information.  For example if I write a paragraph about freelance writing and tag it as “Fran’s freelance writing”. this tag will describe my paragraph online.  Once I need to see this paragraph again I will have to browse or search with this tag and I will be able to find my paragraph.  This is a tag.  Blog tags are popular in word press  and several other blogs.

Blog tags and tagging, is the process of adding SEO keywords which link directly to a site that monitors and allows search of promotional key tags to find information on blogs and websites.

Tag related sites include Deli.ici.us, Technorati and Flickr.  Tags and tags driven sites have another way to find information on websites and Internet.  To find an example from real life, we can compare the purpose of tags to yellow pages.  If you need a plumber to fix plumbing, you will look into yellow pages.  To find best information about a  certain topic online you will look for tags on the site you are visiting to get a bunch of information about a certain topic online.   Though any word can be chosen for tag, but it makes more sense to choose tags that are SEO keyword or keyword phrases.  This serves dual purpose.  When this word is written by an information seeker into a search box, they will get all information sites belonging to this key word and if this keyword has been used as a tag also, it will bring up those tagged sites too.

Keywords:

This terminology is used for some significant words that connect with search engine optimization and often are included in search lists.  These words written in the search boxes will bring up the most significant search written with these word as recognized by search engine rankings.  SEO keywords are special words or phrases that will bring the same results and can not be changed to get the same SEO results.  All keywords can be used as blog tags also.

The major difference between a keyword and a tag is that keywords are the same online everywhere, as  designated by search engines due to their usage and search done on those keywords.  While every writer makes the tags according to the posts that a blogger writes and are always different from site too site.  Keywords can be the tags, if selected as blog tags by an online writer.  But all tags can not be the keywords.

Meta Tags:

Meta tags are not in use by everyone any more.  Very few people still use them.  Meta tags are inserted after the title just to get the highest “Meta Tag” ranking.  But it is not guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler based search engines.  They are different than title tag.

Categories:

This term is also used for online blogging.  Since blog consists of blog posts, a blogger can identify different posts with different categories.  And in addition to be featured on the main page, the entry will be found on that category’s page.  For example, while writing blog post I write about articles, article marketing, then I move to blog writing and then freelance writing.  One of my reader who is passionate about freelance writing, will click on the category about Freelance writing  to read that post.

However, today categories are usually eliminated in blogging and only tags are used.  Categories were eliminated at the end of 2004.  But these are still used by some bloggers and specially in word press blogs.

So, my friends I hope this clears the difference between tags and key words.  I have also mentioned some other terms that we use in blogging.  In case you have any more question, please send them down and I will try my best to answer those for you.

Until next time.

Fran Aslam

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day.  Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”   In order to provide my readers information that teaches how to fish, here is a real step by step information how to make money as a freelance writer.  This real experience and research is not easy to find.

Professional freelance writer provides the service of an artist or journalist as an uncommitted independent service provider.

Freelance writing opportunities have doubled in last few years.  A writer enjoys the benefits of choices between offline and online.  Online writers are in demand because they are needed to update blogs and website contents.  Freelance content writers choose what is best.  They are able to choose the income that a  they want to have.

Professional freelance writer has lots of advantages and  least stress to make money.  That is why it is becoming the choice of many self employed independent writers.

What are the requirements to make money as a professional freelance writer?  It is expected that you have a university education, with a degree in literature but not a prerequisite.  a degree in Journalism is a great asset too but not a requirement.  But then how will you be hired as a no experience writer to start with?  This is a million dollar question to be answered for those who are interested to make money as a freelance writer.  Here is the simple answer.

You have to get exposure to freelancing jobs and once you liked this profession, you have to make sure you will love to do it as a means to make money, you have to be prepared to find new jobs in this field.

Writing skills are acquired during your education.  You get lots of chances to write.  Starting tutorials, projects from school to writing a thesis in Phd, it all involves writing.  So you already know if you like it or you do not like it.

1.  Start by breaking into freelance writing opportunities:

That means, if you are working do not quit your job. Use your spare time to know more about professional freelance writing opportunities.  Go online to find more opportunities and increase your knowledge and grab any opportunity you get to start.

2.  Create a network of people online who will recommend you the jobs:

The bigger your network the more are the chances to get these jobs. I know it takes time but every single step to networking will help you find real information to get started your money making opportunity of your interest. It is worth the effort.

3.  Get  letter of reference and recommendations, from as many jobs as possible:

Once you have started to write try your best to get every job well done.  Try to get a referral in writing so you may add it to your portfolio as an achievement.

4.  Follow the guidelines of each project carefully:

This is very important to satisfy the hiring authority here.  Following the guide lines is to do the job as needed by the company or business who hired you.  This will also help you to get the next job and the reference will help you a long way to maintain your work stability.

5.  Look for work both offline and online:

Articles provide a good source of income both offline and online.  Magazines and newspapers are best to get articles jobs or editorials.  Internet has a huge demand of articles in a variety of topics.  Contact businesses.  Introduce and offer your services as a professional freelance writer.  Once these business will need a freelance writer, they will not place an ad, but they will contact you.

6.  Ghost writing and online blogging are great freelance opportunities:

This is a great source of income.  Writing blog posts for those who want to maintain their online presence and do not have the time to write.  ghost writing informative articles is also a great way to make money.  Some people just love to write as a ghost writer, where your name is not published as a writer and you sell exclusive rights to the articles.

To find your first big  job as a professional freelance writer you have to do the following:

a.  Plan and make  realistic goals for freelance writing opportunities.

b.  Create a Portfolio.

c.  A promotional website.

d.  Collect your best writing articles, make a pdf document file so it is easy to deliver electronically.  Also clippings of the original documents for offline opportunities.

e.  Make a list and proof of all the achievements that you have with some written exposure.

Now you can mail or deliver  in one portfolio around where you live, people you have done business with and display online on your website to get more projects.  Soon projects will start coming to you, instead of you looking  for projects.  Present these credentials to any job you want to get.

Since you are self employed start writing yourself, write and publish an eBook or book, to sell and make money.  this will give you credibility and income both.  Write your own blog and create a lot of readers to your blog and this way you will establish your identity as a professional freelance writer.  within a month or less depends how you handle it, you will start getting jobs.  Between you personal writing assignments and your credibility you will start making money as a freelance writer.

You will crate an outstanding income and a greater name if you are an independent self employed writer and at the time keeping in touch with the market keep an eye on the job market as a professional freelance writer and apply for those very attractive freelance writing opportunities that you like.  Grab them with your prepared credentials and reputation that you are developing as a freelance technical writer or a freelance content writer.

Blogs are informative sites for visitors and readers. Whether you self blog or maintain it for a third party it is very important for every blog to have traffic. Without traffic a blog is like it never existed and it will turn into abandoned sites with time.

1. Your blog must be unique

From the day you start creating a site design, to the color of the design all determine the traffic to the blog. So keep that in mind while choosing a word press template ( as it is the most popular blog currently).

a. It should be easy to read for the visitor, with perfect font and its size.

b. The comment box should be visible and the reader should be able to write with one click.

c. Blog about me page should be in easy reach on the blog.

2. Blog Contents:

Fresh unique and relevant contents brings best traffic. So research the topic in the latest related magazines reports and publications If you are writing about your niche write latest information, and you will get the best traffic right away.

3. Blog comments :

Depending on the quality of your contents, if you are getting remarks that go in your favor you will get a highest traffic to your blog with that. Come to think when visitors come to your blog and leave a comment, it is sure sign of traffic. Make sure you have comment generator space for the visitors very visible.

What kind of comments will create positive traffic strategy for a blog?

a.  Relevant to the blog topic.

b.   That brings up a debate of some kind.

c.   That flatter the blogger not directly praising but genuine.

d.  That are to the point and create a positive feed back.

e.   A question about the topic of the blog.

f.  Bad comments also get you noticed.

4. Create Text links within your blog:

A bunch of links that you can point to a post or a page in your blog.  Once you have a post that ranked your blog # 1 in Google listings, you can connect this post with hyper text links.  This will increase traffic to this post immensely.

5.  Reuse the keywords that got you most search traffic in the previous posts:

If you check the traffic stats of your posts you can figure out which key words  got best traffic on a certain post.  Though key words are not listed there.  But you can edit the post and see the key words from the post and find it yourself.  Re use those key words in the current post to repeat the same results.  You will see you are getting best traffic with this strategy.

6. Increase traffic to your site with Email strategies:

Email can make a difference in many ways to increase traffic.  Emailing new and old readers all work  to get you traffic.  Keep the emails short.  Directly promote your blog leave a link to the post. Here is an example

“Thank you for your comment online writing by Fran Aslam. On line writing is all about expressing your views, every comment is valuable to continue helping others to become a better online writer.”

Emails will bring some new visitors right away.  But constant follow up with every new post will create highest traffic to your blog.

7. Use Blog Images videos pictures to increase traffic:

It is not any old image that will give you amazing traffic. You need to label your images correctly. The label should contain the words that a visitor will write in the search box to look for images. The label that Google can recognize your images will get more than usual traffic. So got the idea use primary key words for labelling these images that you will use in your blog.

a.   Choose a good place for these images in your post.

b.   Images can be photographed by you or bought through a reliable source.

c.   Now change the title of the Image to suit your post.

d.  It should be relevant to the post and keyword enriched.

8. Use ping services at least twice a day.

Sign up with pingfm. They will send your ping to several sites that you have selected. You can also set up a word press ping for several social sites. Engage your readers and remind them a few time so they may find time to read at least once. Also use Twitter RSS sites to connect to your posts.

9.  Article writing relevant to your blog :

Write articles, about your post to get more traffic. Submit to the directories that you like. Write a good resource box so you may get many clicks to your post links.

10. Social net working and community connection:

This is the most popular way to get traffic to your blog. Build a community around your blog. You will get readers and increased traffic to the sites, and it is always SEO, social networking sites commenting on the blog too.  Become a part of the community yourself and rest will follow.

Well there is no end to traffic strategies. However, even if a blogger can find to use these traffic strategies, the traffic will boost very fast and will stay there for good with your efforts.