writefortheweb

There are lots of products online that you can sell (and allow to be resold, at times) using various licensing rights, and I will tell you about two of them-PLR and MRR.PLR is the abbreviation for private label rights, and MRR is short for master resell rights. So, what do they mean?The MRR product is the more restrictive of the two. You cannot change it in any way, you can’t say you wrote it, and you have no copyright license for it. In general, you can sell the product, and also can allow your buyers to sell the product. They are not allowed to change it in any way, either. So, if you find a great ebook, you can sell it online, and also allow your buyer’s to sell it as well-but only in it’s original form.PLR products, on the other hand, you can almost treat as if you’d written yourself. You can claim you created it, sell resale rights (RR- they can only buy it, but not resell it themselves) and master resell rights (MRR) to the product. With PLR authority, you can change it around, add to it, take parts out, even completely rewrite the whole thing-in which case you’ve significantly altered the product, creating something entirely new, and can claim copyright to it. In it’s original format, as you bought it, you do not have copyright authority.Each of these products can be used in different ways. If you are looking for some quick articles to sell online, MRR products might be best. If, however, you want to take someone else’s basic research and information to create something “in your own words,” you might be better suited looking at PLR products.

Any writer can create great content, but a great writer does so after sharpening skills against a hard stone, or editor. A quality editor/writing coach enables a writer’s success by providing not only corrections, but providing feedback for improving skills. Like a knife sharpening stone, they will bring the greatness from within the depths of the writers they work with.

One experienced Writing Coach is:

Elissa Stein

She is a published author who has quality experiences to share and knows about sharpening her own skills. This asset is invaluable to any new writer who chooses to allow her to mentor them.

You can find more about her here: 

ElissaStein.com

FlowTheBook.com

to find her on Twitter:

@elissastein 

Check her out. As I am bringing together some amazing coaches for all of you, I’ll be sure to keep you up to date w/ a brief review of each one. It is my goal to help you reach your goals, and these are the resources you will find most useful.

This is a term many hear for Multi-Level Marketing Companies. This is a wonderful benefit from the design of that opportunity, however that is not the only industry that can generate a residual income. As a writer, there are many opportunities to do so. I love them because they offer many choices for us. We can use them as portfolio’s, as a record of where we started as web writers and where we’ve come from there, and as residual income ~ regardless of quality.

In several posts I’ve discussed Bukisa on here many times. I’ve also mentioned Triond , Infobarrel and Xomba. There are many other methods of generating a residual income online.

One of the most popular is through Kontera.com - they use text links to generate income. You would start by creating a blog, and post 10 - 20 posts, then as you draw your followers in,  bring in the text advertising. It will provie a steady option for income.

There is also affiliate marketing, where you create a blog or website that is surrounding a particular product or service. You discuss the plus side, the why and the how to use the product or service. Then you direct your readers to the place to buy the service or product with your affiliate link included. This will pay you a commission based on the product or products purchased by any person who uses your site to find the goods.

As we go, I’ll make sure to include more Residual Options.

If you find you are writing and having difficulty focusing on the task at hand, there are solutions. I find that when I listen to music while writing, I am inspired to create the best products possible. Additionally, I take a moment at visit a friend’s site HennArtOnline and try to keep up on the newest posts and photos she posts on there. She is incredibly talented both as a photographer and as a biographer. This can be very inspiring.

Either of these tactics are effective at inspiring your writing to move forward to success.

Infobarrel  Writers to create how to’s and do it yourself (DIY) articles. The content is easy to create and they offer a great starting plan. Your published quickly, however they do quality assurance edits on them as need be. Check them out, they pay every month without fail. You use your own google adsense ID for the content so the pay goes into your google adsense account, not theirs. They push the marketing and promotion for your work. Nice combo on this site.

HubPages does offer the opportunity to employ several options for ads within your hub’s. You can make money with adsense, kontera and others. As long as you create and maintain your pages, you will get the traffic you want and need for your sites. This is a fabulous revenue option both for one site and to promote your profiles for your writing on other sites.

This is an Update to an Earlier Post that can be found here: Paid Writing Options

This applies specifically to the website Bukisa . They have recently lowered their pay out amount from 50 dollars to increments of 10 and 25 dollars. This allows more flexibility and increases the regularity of the payouts from this site.  The site traffic has increased as well. My profile views has jumped significantly, so they are still the highest paying revenue sharing site online at the moment, however they are still fledgling and we will see if it will continue as such. If you are going to write for an income, at this time, Bukisa should be the site of choice.

On a separate topic, I just bought my son a Leap Frog Book that helps kids begin to write - until now, nothing I have tried personally has been able to get my little man to write, while his 3yr old sister is starting to write her own name. With such a tough egg to crack, something had to give, so I found the frog. Explain to me why this boy loves his frogs and I’ll know why he is finally getting excited about writing. I figured I would share this with you when I came across it online. Let me know your thoughts and if it works as well for your kiddos.

Writing for the web today can create many potential concerns. Search engines are often a website’s biggest ally or obstacle. As a writer it is your job to make the search engines their allies. This means your content needs to be fresh, original and interesting. Unfortunately there are many writers and webmasters that like to take short cuts, so your created content may be duplicated elsewhere.

If this is a problem with an article written for a client, then you are facing some major concerns, as they may perceive the duplication as something you sold again to some one else with out the benefit of PLR notation. Obviously they will not be using your services again. Also, if this is your website or blog that is being copied you will lost search engine rankings, which will diminish your personal standing online. How do you address this? By taking action, not sitting still allowing your hard work to be flushed down the search engine rankings because of another site’s duplication problems.

There are 3 possibly 4 steps:

The first is that you take a moment and identify the website that has your duplicate content. Start by coping a key sentence - the entire sentence - into your search engine of choice. If it brings up a site with similar content that is not duplicated, then you are fine, however if there is another page identical to the one you have on your site or your client’s you will see it too. From there visit the Whois domain identification site and look up the owner. Write a polite and professional business email that indicates a need to remove the duplicated article or content. Often this is all you need to do.

If you wrote the email and did not receive the results you are looking for you need to then follow up by contacting the hosting company they are registered with. When you do this, you must have the dates you published the content to the web, and the dates they did. It must be provable, and you need to be ready to do so. Once the hosting company sees the site is duplicating content, they will address it by removing the duplicated content or the plagarism site all together.

The last obvious step would then be to contact Google, Yahoo, and MSN the 3 major search engines and file a  Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement against the site. This will enable the search engines to punish the site creating duplicate content.

The final step is only a last resort and that would be to take legal action against the site owners and the webmaster involved in the infringement.

The big key her is ACTION - Take it when you find your work is duplicated.

So, you’ve chosen to follow my advice and aim for some of the residual income available. You are seeing that some money is coming in from the page views but you’d like to know how to make that grow, steadily and significantly.  I’m going to give you 3 tips to creating that. These are simple and can be done quickly with on a few moments after you have published the content.

1- Social Bookmarking:

Select your favorite 3 bookmarking tools, and bookmark often. Personally I suggest, Stumble, Reddit and Furl. With each and every item you create, bookmark it with all 3 of your choices. This will draw passive traffic to your site.

2- URL Submission:

There are many methods to having your article indexed, but the easiest are  to submit the article’s url direct to the search engines themselves. All of the search engines will allow you to do this free of charge, you will have to identify which search engines will drive the most traffic to you by taking the time to do this with everyone you come into contact with. I would also strongly suggest one search engine in particular, ChaCha.com as this is a people powered site that will often be kind to this type of work.

3-  Profile promotion:

Include a link to your site profiles in ALL of your website contacts. This even means that you should cross link your profiles for each site you are working with. If you are working on some form of forum work, link your profile. Take advantage of every link posting options.

Doing this will draw steady traffic to your work, and increase your income.

You will find that most avid and passionate writers are also passionate readers. There is a solid reason for this, if you write, you must read. If you are a creative writer, you are always looking for new inspiration. If you are a paid per content writer, reading introduces you to a wide range of writing styles, and research methods. Reading other styles will help you develop your skills, and learn the varying degrees of written structure. So you start with a book, and move to the computer, and enjoy what flows from your thoughts through the fingers to the screen.

A biography is a great resource for information regarding specific people, and writing one is a skill to be mastered. Every person has a story, and a good biographer knows how to relay that story in a manner that is accurate and interesting. There are some key points however to writing them for the web.

Web biography writing needs to be the creation of scannable content. As a web biographer you need to use sub headings, bullett points, and header information. You want your content to be bolded and highlighted through the means available to you.

Headers can be placed in two manners: 1 at the top of a paragraph like you can see here .  Her name identifys who she is, then you see where her information is, in this case names, cashes, win totals. In this bio you can see what each section will cover because of the headers. This is a very simple and well layed out biography.

The second way you will see headers used is here .  In this biography the information is clearly seprating the top from the story. If some one were looking for basic information, it’s available before reading the story at the bottom. This is important because most web readers, do not read the whole page.

With biography length also comes into play. The minimum number of words that tell the story should never fall below 600. Now this may seem long for an online article, that is not a news piece, but as a writer you will see it is actually fairly short. When you are researching on a specific person, there are bits of information all over the web, and in the books for many. It is your job to pull together the most relevant information, so writing less than that will be a challange, unless you’re only giving essential stats: such as - date of birth/death; marriage; children; major events; ect; ect.

There are many sites that will ask you for the short stuff, but there are far more that will want a real biography for their website.

Bio bottom line: make it scannable, concise, unforgettably accurate, and long enough to relay the story.