What It’s Like to Start a Blog in 2020 - Blogging for money in 2020 isn’t as straightforward as it was years ago. Nowadays, most profitable niches are incredibly competitive. To start a blog in 2020, you need a lot of hard work and patience, but that’s true for pretty much any business.In a nutshell, blogging won’t make you money overnight. However, that doesn’t mean...
4 Things You Need to Do to Increase Your Freelance Writing Rates - As freelance writers, most of us get paid by the word. To earn more money, you need to either raise your writing rates or be more productive. If you’re not happy with how much money you make as a freelance writer, then this article is for you. Unlike what a lot of gurus will tell...
How Search Engines Index Blogs (A Simple Explanation) - Search engines are, in essence, an index of almost all the websites on the web and the pages that make them up. However, that index doesn’t come out of nowhere and, with thousand of new pages coming to life every day, it never ceases to expand. As you might imagine, there aren’t a bunch of...
How to Use Google Alerts to Build Backlinks for Your Blog - Building backlinks often requires a lot of effort on your end. You have to publish content that other blogs want to link to, send tons of emails, beg, and negotiate. Personally, I’m a big fan of getting ‘easy’ backlinks and I’m not talking about black hat approaches. What you want to focus on are people...
4 Tips to Find New Freelance Writing Clients Without Pitching - The ‘secret’ to finding freelance work is to be persistent. You keep building up your portfolio and pitching potential clients over and over again until your schedule is full. It’s an approach that works, but if you want to scale your freelance writing business, you also need to figure out ways to have clients come...