Web Writers Cafe

Make Money By Blogging!

2009-03-24T22:31:00.003-04:00

Here is a great way to add some cash to your pocket! All you have to do is post to some blogs and you get paid! You can get paid $12 - $50 for writing for blogs or $25 - $45 for writing articles and all from the comfort of your home.

So check it out today!

Come Join WEbook.com With Me!

2008-11-03T08:11:00.001-05:00

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all doing well on your article writing. I hope the tips that I have given you have somehow inspired you to write some articles. If not, there is no time like the present to get started!

I will be writing more on article writing soon, but first wanted to spring this new website I found on you. The site is called WEbook.com and it is an awesome site for writers that want to get published, because WEbook is a publisher!

This is how it works. You sign up at WEbook and open your account. You can post a story you are writing and have people comment on it, make suggestions etc. Now this is the magic of WEbook, they will let you invite other WEbook partners in to help you write the book or you can join other writers and help them write their ideas! What a great place this is! And if you write a hit, you'll get paid too!

So stop by their today and check it out and start writing that book today!

Till next time.....

So Can You Write Articles?

2008-10-29T08:25:00.002-04:00

Welcome back to the Web Writers Cafe. Today we are going to go over some tips that should help any level of article writer out there.

So, can you write articles? That question probably has crossed every ones mind from time to time. This is especially true for new writers who have never published an article to the web and is terrified that it may be junk.

Instead of writing down a bunch of tips, I am just going to give you a link to the tips I have used over the last year or so. I hope you enjoy them and I hope that they give you the confidence and support they gave me to start writing articles.

The tips are at Scalzi.com and is titled "Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing." Now don't take the title as it is no work to write an article, it is just implying that if you use these tips it will make it a lot easier to your article.

Enjoy these tips and put them to use to write an article!

Till next time.....

Where Your Articles Can Go!

2008-10-27T08:00:00.003-04:00

Hey All,

Thanks for coming back to the Web Writers Cafe. In the last few posts I have been going over the importance of writing and in general writing articles.

I had kind of generalized article writing as a way to bring traffic to your site or blog, but today I want to tell you of other ways that you can use your articles on the Internet and even maybe make a buck or two.

Let's go over the type of articles that I have already mentioned and those are the ones that will help you bring traffic to your landing page, website or blog. This type of use of your articles is called article marketing.

These articles are written about a certain subject or product that you may be promoting and are written so as to attract the search engines when the keywords you have chosen for that article are used. This is called Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short. This will be covered at a later date so don't really worry about it too much right now.

For example, you are promoting a new ebook about tropical fish. So you write an article about raising tropical fish and post it on the web. When someone searches the term tropical fish, your article comes up in the search results and they read your article. They like what they read so they click on the link you provided to the ebook sales page or your web page that tells about the ebook and hopefully they then buy said ebook.

Articles written for this purpose can be placed on sites that are made specifically for promoting and sharing your article with others. Some are listed below and I encourage you to check them out and join them so you can post your articles to the web soon.

ezinearticles.com
exchange-articles.com
articlesbase.com
findarticles.com
isnare.com

Article marketing can take a few days or even weeks to see any results from your work. For more relatively quicker results, you can post your articles and get payment on submission(after a standard review) or a get a share of the revenue that is brought in by your article with the sight that is promoting it. Please check out the following sites for submitting these type of articles.

hubpages.com
squidoo.com
helium.com
associatedcontent.com

And finally you can use Elance.com and bid on projects to write articles for other people. This is usually fairly quick money if you need it, but be prepared to get only $2 - $5 for each article as the competition is pretty tough.

I hope I have enlightened you to various ways to use your articles to make money with or to promote your website or blog. Next time I will be giving tips on writing a good article.

Till next time.....

Bum Marketing Does Work

2008-10-26T07:53:00.003-04:00

When I started this grand adventure awhile ago, it was Bum Marketing that intrigued me to get started. If you do not know what Bum Marketing is visit Travis Sago's Bum Marketing site and he will teach you for free. I highly recommend signing up for his free course, it is one of those no brainers if you ask me.

That is how I started, but I soon lost focus and wondered away. The one thing that has stuck out from the Bum Marketing lessons is that writing articles is the easiest way to get traffic to your site or blog without having to pay for it. That is correct, you can get all the traffic you want to your site just by writing well structured, informative articles and get that traffic for free! You may even get paid for it too!

So for the next few posts, I will be giving tips for writing great articles and then what to do with them to drive traffic to your site or blog. I will also be giving other tips to help you drive traffic to your site as well as little ways to make more money from your efforts.

So get acquainted with the Bum Marketing Method if you are not already and join me in the next few days to bring your article writing up a notch and maybe even add a digit or two to your bank account.

Till next time.....

Back To The Basics

2008-10-25T15:44:00.004-04:00

Hey Everyone,

I have just been doing a little cleaning up around the Web Writers Cafe the last few weeks in preparation to getting this blog back on its feet again.

Over the past few years I have done a lot of testing and reading trying to make money online. I don't want to be rich (but I won't turn it away), just enough to be comfortable in life. I have tried this and that and everything else imaginable only to end up where I had started.

In my escapades though, I have seen one common thread in all of the promises and attempts at money making and that is WRITING! That is correct, to be successful at making money on the web, you have to know how to write.

Anything from ad copy, to squeeze pages, to a simple article, you have to know how to write. When this light finally went off in my head, I decided to come back to the cafe to help myself and others get better at writing, showing them how to make money writing and anything else that has to do with writing.

So come back often to the Cafe and we can share each others ups and downs, rights and wrongs about writing and hopefully be the better for it.

Till next time.....

Web Writers Cafe Is ReOpened!

2008-09-01T22:40:00.002-04:00

Hey!

How is everyone doing? I know I have neglected this blog a lot! But I am getting my stuff together and will be posting on here more frequently!

Funny thing is that I have not posted in so long and the PR for this blog is PR-3! Imagine that, figure that one out Google. I have learned a lesson and have removed anything to do with the 3P's site as it seems Google hates a blog that uses them.

So what have I been doing lately? Well, I have been making lenses at Squidoo and hubs at Hubpages. I really like those sites. It is very easy to make a page and the search engines love them. Check out a sample of each below!

Hubpages - Cornhole: The Game

Squidoo - Hypertufa Planters

I like Hubpages a little more because of the ease of building a hub,(check out the Hubpages widget in the sidebar!) but they really restrict you as far a promoting products on there, where as Squidoo is a little more cumbersome in the build stage, the allow any kind of selling, promoting etc. So I use both together!

Let me know what you think about Squidoo and Hubpages!

See ya......

Update on eLance.com

2008-01-14T10:16:00.000-05:00

In a earlier post I told you of joining eLance.com and that I was hoping to start writing there soon.

Well after getting use to the site and passing the eLance test for basic knowledge of the site, I was ready to go.

I spent a lot of time looking through the project listings in the writing area and I found myself concentrating on the blog/E-book writing category. This is where my "expertise" and experience is mostly at.

So far, I have put in three bids. One chose another bidder. One has yet to chose and I am very optimistic for this one as it is for working on the Wordpress format and I have a lot of that from my 451 Press blogging. The third one accepted my bid and I am writing a set of blog posts for just under $100 and he has offered me more work in the future.

So check out eLance and you never know, it might work out for you. I like it and so far it has been good to me.

Till next time.....

Want To Improve Your Blogging?

2007-12-26T13:43:00.000-05:00

So, do you want to become a better blogger?Do you want to attract hundreds if not thousands of readers everyday to your blog? Well, who doesn't?

While I was out cruising the Internet today, I ran a cross an article, How to Write a Better Weblog, by Dennis A. Mahoney at AListApart.com that I thought any blogger may find interesting. I also think that it would apply to some aspects of article writing also.

Dennis lists some valuable tips that every blogger should at least read and try to apply to their blog. I know that I will be using these tips to get my readership over the 1000/per day mark, oops, that should be 10/per day! (Must be optimistic!) Enjoy his article and improve your blogging now!

Till next time.....

Do You Use Elance?

2007-12-13T08:23:00.000-05:00

I wanted to introduce everyone to Elance.

Elance is like a portal for everything that needs to be done on the web. From programming flash and designing websites to writing articles, doing blog entries and writing E-Books.

You can join to either buy these services or you can join to sell these services. There are some great deals that can be make on Elance, so check it out today and see if you can use their services.

Till next time.....

Gold Mine Discovered

2007-12-05T18:12:00.000-05:00

I received an E-mail from Amy Quinn about an article at HRWorld.com that she said may interest my readers.

So I went to the website and was amazed at what was there. It is a list of 100 plus resources that web workers can use to make their job even easier.

The following excerpt sums up the article and contents pretty good.

Web workers have a unique advantage over traditional workers: the ability to
rely on the Internet to get the job done. Whether you're a blogger, a Web
designer or even a photographer, you're sure to find useful tools included in
these resource collections. Read on to get access to our directory of cool
tools.

So visit HRWorld.com and see for yourself.

Till next time.....

Holiday Gatherings is a Great Place for Writing Ideas

2007-11-24T13:34:00.000-05:00

The Holiday Season is a great time to come up with tons of writing ideas.

It may be just another Christmas dinner at Aunt Marys', but is also is a time to just sit back and listen. Listen to the stories the older folks tell. There story may be a story in itself but the details may give you a background for some other story or article you might write. Listen to the children as they are the great storytellers, maybe you will even remember some of the stories you told as a child.

Take your imagination on a stroll. Imagine one of your Aunts or Uncles or Cousins in a different place in time and try to think how they would react, live and cope in the new surroundings. You never know, it may become a new comedy on NBC!

So enjoy the time with your family and friends this Holiday Season, but don't forget to keep your mind and imagination wide open!

Till next time.....

Writers Showcase #1

2007-11-16T23:02:00.000-05:00

My first real Writers Showcase comes from a writer I found on Associated Content. I was doing a search for local AC writers and G. Stolyarov II's name showed up. What drew me to his writing at first was his Clout Index, which was 100000 - 500000, one that was very impressive and one that was foretelling of their talent.

As I went through his writings, it did not take long to understand that this writer was from local Hillsdale College, a prestigious and well known secondary learning institution in the United States.

I find that it is very interesting and ingenious that the writer not only used his college work(I assume, forgive me if this is not the case.) for a grade, but also for an income. I applaud this author on his extensive set of writings, while some did not attract to much of my attention, some did and I enjoyed them immensely.

In his profile it states that "G. Stolyarov II is a science fiction novelist, independent essayist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, contributor to Enter Stage Right, Le Quebecois Libre, Rebirth of Reason, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, The Liberal Institute, and The Rational Argumentator."

I have listed a variety of his writings below from AC and you can find the rest listed in his profile.

Big Government Breeds Vice: Perverse Incentives of the Welfare State

Criminality and Forfeiture of Rights

A Plan for Cutting Big Government Spending

An Analysis of the Ideas of Fred Thompson

The History of Early Military Airplanes

I hope you have enjoyed these writings and essays, if so please visit G. Stolyarov II's profile where there is plenty more!

Till next time.....

Building an Empire

2007-11-14T14:52:00.000-05:00

As you know from the last post, I have started a website called MyBlogGroup.com that basically showcases all of my blogs.

Since I have started that site I have started another blog called Start Cooking Now! I hope you will take the time to check it out and to leave any comments you may have.

The last blog now makes four that I am writing and I have two on the back shelves to start when I am positive of the angle I want to go with them.

Then that had me thinking that maybe I am on to something here. While I do not want to get overloaded with a million blogs, but if I can turn these six blogs into money making machines, I will be sitting pretty. That will take time and a lot of work, so we will see.

Hope you can visit my other blogs and let me know what you think.

Till next time.....

MyBlogGroup.com is Live!

2007-11-10T13:08:00.000-05:00

I have started up MyBlogGroup.com and I hope you will visit it soon. It is a central point that connects all of my blogs together.

I also have a list of tools that I use to get traffic, money whatever for my blogs. If you have any that are not listed there is a contact e-mail at MyBlogGroup.com on the Tools page for you to use.

I am looking for new things to include on the site also. I do not have any ideas at this time, but I am working on it.

So visit MyBlogGroup.com and let me know what you think!

Till next time.....

Additional Places to Write

2007-11-09T10:06:00.000-05:00

I mainly write articles and submit them to Associated Content and Helium. I was curious what other places you may submit your work to that is worth submitting.

Also, I am curious if anyone has been published in the real world and not online. I am looking forward to hearing from you and that experience.

Till next time.....

Web Writers Cafe is Back In Business

2007-11-03T22:47:00.000-04:00

I just wanted to let you all know that the Cafe is open, again! I severely neglected this blog as I ventured out into the Internet for other money making projects.

I was tempted in many directions and I lost my way for awhile. Then one day I sat back and looked deep inside and discovered what really pleased me was doing my blogs. So, here I am!

I will be doing the same things as in the beginning and hopefully adding other neat ideas to keep everyone entertained.

So I am opening the lines of communication again for any one that wants to feature your writing from Associated Content or Helium.

This blog, severely neglected as it was, has a Google rank of PR-3 so that means that you will get decent exposure if you take advantage of the Cafe.

I will be waiting for your submissions and adding my own.

Till next time.....

This week's Helium contest

2007-05-16T14:07:00.000-04:00

I have entered this week's article in Helium's weekly contest. I plan on writing more articles this week, so come back to see them. Top prize is $300 and 75 spots are paid out. To read my article click on the link below, I would really appreciate it.

When I first submitted the article, it was ranked 1 out of 1and . I hope it stays there this week.

It is easy to enter the contest. You need to be a member of Helium. Membership is free and easy. Once you are a member just click on the contest ad on the front page and pick one of about 500 subjects to write about.

If you are not a member, just let me know and I will send you an invite for membership.

How biomass energy works

Helium contest

2007-05-10T12:53:00.000-04:00

I have entered my latest article in Helium's weekly contest. Top prize is $300 and 75 spots are paid out. To read my article click on the link below, I would really appreciate it.

When I first submitted the article, it was ranked 17 out of 29 and is currently ranked 9 out of 29. I am happy with those results in such a short time and hope to see the article at #1 soon.

It is easy to enter the contest. You need to be a member of Helium. Membership is free and easy. Once you are a member just click on the contest ad on the front page and pick one of about 500 subjects to write about.

If you are not a member, just let me know and I will send you an invite for membership.

Thanks and talk to you soon.

Best ways to get married on a budget

Blog Law

2007-05-09T20:32:00.000-04:00

I hope I don't break any laws doing this. So to be safe I am just going to put a link below to the site that has a really good resource for all bloggers about the law and blogging. Enjoy!

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

Want to be a Professional Blogger?

2007-05-08T20:30:00.000-04:00

Well, do you? I have been blogging for 451 Press since the beginning of the year and it is really cool. My blog is the Pit Stop Report and I cover everything NASCAR.

451 just started last October and already has over 200 blogs on the company payroll and their goal is to have 451 blogs. So as you can see they are well on their way, but they still need writers. Would you be interested?

If you go to my blog and scroll to the bottom, you will see the blogs they have now. Some of them do not have writers yet, while most do. If you are interested in writing for them apply to 451 Press here and please list me as the person that referred you on the application.

Associated Contents first Town Hall Meeting

2007-05-02T10:21:00.000-04:00

Associated Content, The People's Media Company, held their first Town Hall Meeting last night and I am providng a video of how it went. AC is a great place for writers to submit their work for payment. If you are not a member, let me know and I will send you an invite.

The Town Hall Meetings are held every week or two and are meetings where Associated Content employees answer your questions about their services.

Ways to promote your work

2007-04-30T09:49:00.000-04:00

Web Writers Cafe was started to help not only myself, but others too, gain exposure for the work that we do on the Internet. To receive that extra exposure it will be slow at first but with time will grow to a decent and steady traffic count.

Over at ProBlogger.net, Darren made a post earlier this year on "How to market your blog in the year 2007." This is a great article for anyone that is trying to get noticed on the web and it is the blue print that we will be using here at The Cafe to read the word. ProBlogger also lists blogging jobs that you may be interested in, so stop by and stop often.

The article gives you "41 ways to kickstart your marketing efforts" according to the post which was written by Tony Hung. This article will not only work for your blog, but it will work for you to promote your work on AC or Helium also. So print it out and start promoting your work, we will so the same here at The Cafe.

Saba, Ink articles for review

2007-04-29T10:30:00.000-04:00

I want to thank Saba, Ink for letting us post her writing here at the Cafe. I hope everyone enjoys her work and feel free to leave comments for her.

The Nascarization of a Nation

Human Guinea Pigs

Vanessa Williams Brings MY BROTHER to Big Screen

Kendejah: Liberian Restaurant & Lounge

This is just a sampling of Saba, Ink's work, so be sure to visit her profile at Associated Content to see all of her work.

Thanks to Freelance Writing Jobs

2007-04-29T06:48:00.000-04:00

I wanted to make a quick post to thank Deborah over at Freelance Writing Jobs for adding Web Writers Cafe to her Blogroll. The link will give the Cafe some great exposure from Deborah's very busy blog.

Be sure to help thank Deborah by visiting Freelance Writing Jobs today. You never know, you may find the writing job of your dreams!

Going on vacation?

2007-04-28T06:25:00.000-04:00

Our latest submission comes to us from Kristina, a Content Producer at Associated Content. Kristina has offered up a few travel articles that have been recently published.

My family happened to visit two of these destinations last year on our summer vacation and these articles would have come in handy then.

Adventures in America: Riviera Maya

Adventures in America: Wisconsin Dells

Adventures in America: The Black Hills

Thanks for the submissions Kristina and I hope everyone enjoys them.

2007-04-26T13:16:00.000-04:00

The last article that I submitted to Associated Content was finally approved and with an offer. It was a small offer, but at least I earned one.

I have only received one submission to put someone's work on display, so I have decided to go out and find one for us to look at. This article is on the front page of Associated Content. I do not know the criteria for putting stories on the front page, but I believe that this story, even though it is a interesting subject, is not front page worthy and definitely not worthy of the 4.9 rating.

I am probably the last person who should be talking about spelling as I would be lost without my spell checker, but this author probably should have used one. There are a couple of spelling errors and used "effected" in the place of the word "affected." Simple mistakes but ones that should not be on the front of Associated Content.

Also, it seems that he was just rambling at the end to fill space as he really didn't say anything in the last few paragraphs. That is my review of the article, now tell me what you think!

First writing submission

2007-04-24T20:17:00.000-04:00

I have received Web Writers Cafe's first writing submission and it is a request to post some poetry that he has written. I will post a link to Poetry Anon's poems below and a link to his blog.

I really do not know much about poetry, so I will let the Web Writers Cafe readers comment on Poetry Anon's work.

The Fat Man, with Glasses

Against the Odds

Balance

Thanks for the submission and letting us share your work.

Freelance Writing Jobs

2007-04-22T19:52:00.000-04:00

If you haven't noticed by now, I have listed a link to Freelance Writing Jobs in the sidebar. Freelance Writing Jobs is written by Deborah Ng and not only includes links to writing jobs all over the net, but informative and helpful posts in general about writing.

Deborah also is the About.com guide for Web Logs and you can find more of her expertise here.

The writing jobs range from quick web write-ups all the way to magazine writings and everything in between. Even though I have not found a job on Deborah's sites, I keep looking every day. Check out the jobs today and find your perfect writing job!

Search before writing

2007-04-20T15:07:00.000-04:00

In my last post I linked to the last article that I had written. Since then I have been waiting for the article to be approved and an offer made. While I was on the site, I did a search for the keyword of the article, which was FreeCycle, and it returned 75 articles with FreeCycle in it.

With that knowledge I am not expecting a big offer, if any. So lesson learned about what else one should do before starting an article.

My latest article

2007-04-18T14:22:00.000-04:00

This is my latest article that I have written. Please take a look at it and feel free to leave comments about it.

Remember that you can submit your own work to be put up and reviewed. Just click on the Submit link in the sidebar and send to me to put up. Please include any information that you want included with it in the post.

Welcome to the Web Writers Cafe

2007-04-17T14:42:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the Web Writers Cafe!

As a new web writer I have found that getting your work out on the web is critical to the success of your writing, at least the monetary part of it. So I have started this blog to have all of my articles linked to from one central point.

I am also hoping for your critiques and suggestions for the articles that I post and in return, I am asking you for links to your work so they may be critiqued and commented on also. There is a link in the right sidebar to send me the info you want to put in with the post. I will also post tips and tricks that I find as I scour the web.

So pull up a chair and your favorite beverage and welcome to the Cafe.