I Started five blogs this summer, to help the students of my course 'make $1000 a month blogging wat writersonlinecourses.com' learn the ropes and actually see that the claims in the course are true.
Paid Blog Posts and Page Rank
This blog now has a PR2. That is good enough to get started, but it does bring up some good questions. Will blogging for pay lower the site's PR. The simple answer is no.
One reason it does not lower the page rank is because paid blog links almost always lead to a page with a higher PR than the blog post. So, in fact, the opportunity to increase the PR of the blog is real.
Communati mentioned that I helped increase the Page Rank of this site. In a real way, I did, by linking back and forth from this site to web pages and blogs with PR3 and PR4. This increased the value of the communati page.
Understanding Page Rank
Now, if the blogger were using heading titles, and were 'breaking' their posts every 150 words. If the blogger were building 'keyword anchored' links to a specific post, then yes. There may be an argument that the blog is being degraded by the paid ads. But, as there are few blogs in a site like communati that meet the criteria:
-No more than 10 keywords which are repeated through the entire blog
-Staying on topic
-Using proper coding and H1/H2/H3 titles
Then the effect of paid blog posts is minimal and on the 'plus' side of the scale, as apposed to the minus side.
Not everyone is intrested in writing for pay. This is totally acceptable. For others, the concept is a natural progression from hobby writer to professional blogger status. Will it offend your readers? I will talk more on this later, but the answer is basically - no, not if done right.
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What I Love About Work At Home
I Love work at home because . . .
When I have a birthday, I have cake for breakfast for two or three days becuase I can :)
I can turn the television on and listen to my fav movies while working.
I have a good excuse to stay up until 4 am.
I can read a novel while my computer is booting up.
I am home when my kids get home from school.
None of my relatives think I have a job, so they don't ask me to do things for them.
I can read my favorite magazines and call it research.
I can play on the computer for 10 hours and call it promotion.
I need to work hard, but I do not need to put up with office gossip.
I can dress up in comfe old clothes to work.
I can get to work with other writers.
I can turn down work that I don't feel good doing.
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When I have a birthday, I have cake for breakfast for two or three days becuase I can :)
I can turn the television on and listen to my fav movies while working.
I have a good excuse to stay up until 4 am.
I can read a novel while my computer is booting up.
I am home when my kids get home from school.
None of my relatives think I have a job, so they don't ask me to do things for them.
I can read my favorite magazines and call it research.
I can play on the computer for 10 hours and call it promotion.
I need to work hard, but I do not need to put up with office gossip.
I can dress up in comfe old clothes to work.
I can get to work with other writers.
I can turn down work that I don't feel good doing.
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Get Your Book Published
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Does Google Identify The Original Version of an Article?
The problem of duplicate content goes far beyond the control of most web site owners. It is very easy to have two domain names pointing to the same home page.
http://mywebsite.com
www.mywebsite.com
More Examples:
http://www.example.com
https://www.example.com
http://www.example.com/index.htm
https://www.example.com/index.htm
http://example.com
https://example.com
http://example.com/index.htm
https://example.com/index.htm
Both of these URLs lead to the same web page. Unfortunately, Google sees two versions of the home page. Unfortunately, I use Cpanel, so I cannot do a 302 redirect, or at least, I haven't figured it out yet.
When all the arguments end, and the air clears, the only thing that Google does in most cases is stop ranking the web page (not site) where the duplicate content appears.
The thing you need to balance is. Is it better to rank high on each page of the website, or is it better to give my readers 200 'good' articles on a certain topic? Of course, you can rewrite every article at least once a year. That will solve the problem.
The purpose of this series of blogs is to encourage writers to submit free content articles for promotion - without fear.
And, if you do have fear, just reword some sentences, change a paragraph or two, use different words, cut a couple words, and then submit one version to the net, the second to your site.
Again, it is hard to measure whether you gain or loose.
On one hand, your content is not original.
On the other hand, you can gain hundreds of inbound-links, from websites with similar content (keywords) which will increase your rank.
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http://mywebsite.com
www.mywebsite.com
More Examples:
http://www.example.com
https://www.example.com
http://www.example.com/index.htm
https://www.example.com/index.htm
http://example.com
https://example.com
http://example.com/index.htm
https://example.com/index.htm
Both of these URLs lead to the same web page. Unfortunately, Google sees two versions of the home page. Unfortunately, I use Cpanel, so I cannot do a 302 redirect, or at least, I haven't figured it out yet.
When all the arguments end, and the air clears, the only thing that Google does in most cases is stop ranking the web page (not site) where the duplicate content appears.
The thing you need to balance is. Is it better to rank high on each page of the website, or is it better to give my readers 200 'good' articles on a certain topic? Of course, you can rewrite every article at least once a year. That will solve the problem.
The purpose of this series of blogs is to encourage writers to submit free content articles for promotion - without fear.
And, if you do have fear, just reword some sentences, change a paragraph or two, use different words, cut a couple words, and then submit one version to the net, the second to your site.
Again, it is hard to measure whether you gain or loose.
On one hand, your content is not original.
On the other hand, you can gain hundreds of inbound-links, from websites with similar content (keywords) which will increase your rank.
Visit More Learning Sites:
inspiredauthor
Get Your Book Published
Get Paid To Write
How I Built a Career
Urban Legend, or not? Google's Duplicate Filter
If you are on a blog like writingup, then yes, use original content, and ping after every post.
I have posted at five major blog sites for three years. I am not big here - yet, but I make more money from this blog because of the traffic.
However, your personal website is different.
The Duplicate Content Penalty
Let’s look at the “Duplicate Content Penalty.” It has been around for years, and haunts society like an urban legend.
It is feared despite the near total lack of reasonable proof that it exists in the form that most web owners understand.
The Penalty suggests that if my site has the same content as yours, one will be penalized.
Then, you do a Google search and what comes up as #1 on the search? An article directory, and an article that has 15000 downloads.
As usual, Google's duplicate content penalty has nothing to do with duplicate content. And it’s not a 'real penalty. It’s just a by-product of how the search engines work.
What happens is 'authority' sites get ranked. So, your little site with 100 articles on how to make the world's best short bread has the same article on mixing batter as a massive, 10 000 page website that focuses on cooking cookies - they get ranked - you don't. This is not a penalty, it is the 'natural consequences of living in the net environment.'
But, let's say that you've dutifully posted your article on 50 000 other websites, with an inbound link to a single article (never your index page) - then wham - you've just knocked the poor cooking cookies website off the charts.
What to do --- What to do?
You can do two things.
1. Put new content on your site weekly. Syndicate actively. And build links.
2. Toss the whole thing and become a Social Networking expert like Sharon Hurley Hall - and laugh at the search engine crawlers all the way to the bank.
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I have posted at five major blog sites for three years. I am not big here - yet, but I make more money from this blog because of the traffic.
However, your personal website is different.
The Duplicate Content Penalty
Let’s look at the “Duplicate Content Penalty.” It has been around for years, and haunts society like an urban legend.
It is feared despite the near total lack of reasonable proof that it exists in the form that most web owners understand.
The Penalty suggests that if my site has the same content as yours, one will be penalized.
Then, you do a Google search and what comes up as #1 on the search? An article directory, and an article that has 15000 downloads.
As usual, Google's duplicate content penalty has nothing to do with duplicate content. And it’s not a 'real penalty. It’s just a by-product of how the search engines work.
What happens is 'authority' sites get ranked. So, your little site with 100 articles on how to make the world's best short bread has the same article on mixing batter as a massive, 10 000 page website that focuses on cooking cookies - they get ranked - you don't. This is not a penalty, it is the 'natural consequences of living in the net environment.'
But, let's say that you've dutifully posted your article on 50 000 other websites, with an inbound link to a single article (never your index page) - then wham - you've just knocked the poor cooking cookies website off the charts.
What to do --- What to do?
You can do two things.
1. Put new content on your site weekly. Syndicate actively. And build links.
2. Toss the whole thing and become a Social Networking expert like Sharon Hurley Hall - and laugh at the search engine crawlers all the way to the bank.
Learn to Write Free
Novel Writer Magazine
Writers Online Courses
Get Paid To Write
Fax Solutions
Many of today's writers are asked to write ad copy for companies. Some of them have viable solutions for small businesses, even freelance writers. There are some Fax Server solutions that can make life easier for a freelance writers - even help them start their own business.
All a writer needs to do is highlight the obvious benefits of the products. One of the hardest things to write about is a product that you don't use, and you do not know what it is for. A $4000 Fax Server may not seem like a good idea for most small businesses, but when you consider $40 a month per fax line,Fax Software and a small business may need 7 - 10. This means, a the $4000 fax machine can pay for itself in one year.
All a writer needs to do is highlight the obvious benefits of the products. One of the hardest things to write about is a product that you don't use, and you do not know what it is for. A $4000 Fax Server may not seem like a good idea for most small businesses, but when you consider $40 a month per fax line,Fax Software and a small business may need 7 - 10. This means, a the $4000 fax machine can pay for itself in one year.
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