The content marketing and SEO writing world is all abuzz about Google's new move to give users the option to block certain sites from search results. Is Google blocking content farms from SERPs?

Google Blocks Content Farms?

None of this is surprising, as Google has openly talked about user-tailored… Read full post »

Big name players such as Penn State, University of Texas at Arlington, and Kent State University have entered the online nursing degree game. Online RN to BSN programs are big in e-learning, and a cash cow if done right.

Online RN to BSN Nursing Degrees

But what does "done right" mean?… Read full post »

NPR covered the issue of eldercare recently, focusing on the question of family-based care and insurance coverage. If a family network of care providers can keep Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, or Dad at home and out of a nursing facility, should long-term care and health insurance companies help foot the bil… Read full post »

20% DROP from December

 I expected it - some of my Christmas-related articles aren't hot now, and I can see how much they contributed to revenue.

I am now the Feature Writer for Suite101's History and Philosophy Books section, which gives me an extra 10% bonus in revenue, and… Read full post »

There's a certain formula to writing SEO articles, but it's an art as well.  I am a beginner, and really feel like it's more woo than skill these days.

 My article on deducting private school tuition on taxes, Need Tuition Deductions?, took off right away (10+ page views on day… Read full post »

So I continued on my nice upward trend in earnings for December 2009.  Here's how it looks:

Suite 101: $85.17
Associated Content: $23.34
eHow: $17.25
Examiner: $10.16
Factoidz: basically zero, as they changed their earnings program and never paid me for some earnings of my own and my affiliates, and… Read full post »

There are a few sites on the Internet that offer 100% of ad revenue if you post on their pages.

Open Salon is one of them (some of the Google ads are offered to the writer in full, if you tie in your Adsense account, which can be done via Edit… Read full post »

I really didn't think much of bolded subheadings when writing for pretty much anyone.

I learned from writing for (cough not sure I can say their name cough) that bolded subheadings that use the main keyword phrases, followed by the same keyword phrase, PLUS alternate keywords in the paagraph beneath… Read full post »

The totals are now in and I made...$61.69 in November from residual income.

 How does that compare to my previous months?

September 2009:  $23.78

October 2009: $26.87 (a 13% increase from September)

November 2009: $61.69 (a 130% increase from October)

 Now, to be fair, November was the… Read full post »

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a blog, called How Not to Work at Home.  I've had that blog for over two years now, and at first it started out as a fun place to gather my thoughts about weird programs I found, like MyPoints, Epinions (both of… Read full post »

Back in 1997 I saw this new site called The Mining Company.  It was organized around specific themes, and each theme had a series of web pages with articles on the theme.  Each theme had a guide.  A human guide, who wrote the articles, assembled resources on the topic, and was… Read full post »

Take Googling yourself up a notch.  Google Alert yourself. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and you'll feel better afterward.

 If you're a writer, you know how important exposure is.  Are your SEO articles making it into Google Alerts at all?  You might Google Alert keyword phrases… Read full post »

So I'm trying to decide what to write about for my first post as I sit here eating chocolate cake with a 3 month old nursing on a boppy in my lap.

A piece of cake fell on his neck and I cleaned it off and realized that I will write… Read full post »