Elna Cain

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Currently, this is what my schedule looks like for my freelance writing business: Monday : Topic research for a client and blog post outline for my SEO client. This wouldn’t be possible if I didn’t start freelance writing in 2014. Either way, know how to find credible sources for your blog post writing.

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Elna Cain

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Look – I’ve done this type of post before on how to land your first client as a new freelance writer. I’ve been a freelance writer since 2014, and over the years, I have seen the content landscape change and, only recently, dramatically shift in content production. Post your latest blog post to Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Elna Cain

JUNE 3, 2023

It’s not fun since I’ve been freelance writing since 2014, and you would think I wouldn’t be dealing with difficult clients! Fortunately, a month later, they published my post and emailed me that they did publish my post! I’m currently dealing with a difficult client.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let me guess — CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) keeps popping up on your radar, and you’re itching to sign up as a publisher. Royal Treatment for Star Publishers Do you create top-notch content in your blog? Does your blog have 10K+ page views a month? But whoa, not so fast. Those questions racing in your mind?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

SMBs that blog generate 126% more lead growth than their non-blogging counterparts. 38% of marketers publish new content at least weekly, while 91% of the most successful business bloggers publish at least once per week. In 2014, social media was becoming the place to post your content. Not anymore.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Write and publish what you want, get paid every day for your books, and control your customer data and relationships. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Build a Published Portfolio. At a certain point, clients you’re pitching start asking for a portfolio of your published work. They don’t want a collection of PDF or Docx files; they want to see articles published on reputable websites with you listed as the author. What’s so special about published work?

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Today we delve into the world of giving your blog a shake-up for 2014 when you’re a bit weary of the same-old same-old. This post “9 Steps To Take When You Loathe Your Own Blog” first appeared in May 2012. You’ve got an editorial calendar, you’ve scheduled blog posts weeks in advance.

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Buffer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The ones I’ve seen used most often to track content performance are: Page views This is usually the biggest traffic number — the number of times a landing page or blog post on your site has been viewed. We saw amazing organic website traffic results in our peak publishing years, 2014 to 2018. It was (and is!)

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 7, 2022

What if a job description mentions tools you never used, or you must continually develop blog post topics ? I would read other competitor blog posts, check out what other blogs are writing about, and then pitch blog topics for my current clients. I didn’t start receiving $900+ a post in 2014.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Several years back, HubSpot published a report that finally answered a burning question: “How much should you blog?”. Websites with 400+ blog posts receive more than 2x the traffic of blogs with 301-400 posts. This is from a Hubspot study in 2015 of over 13,000 blogs. Monthly blogs equal more traffic.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the intro, We used to do that [Seth Godin ]; Penguin Random House has acquired Hay House [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Business for Authors ; Your Author Business Plan ; OpenAI has announced a partnership with Axel Springer , the first publishing house globally to partner with them to integrate journalism with AI technologies.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Whether you are just starting out and blogging as a hobby, blogging as a part time job while juggling work, home, and a social life or even blogging as a full time business amidst other demands such as up-keeping of social media accounts, responding to comments and emails etc. - finding time to write is a consistent challenge.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2014

This post “What Content Works Where? Every time we publish a post on social media here at ProBlogger, readers comment that social media takes so much time —how can they get smarter about it? Ramit Sethi Exposed: How He Earns Millions Blogging. Neil Patel’s Guide to Writing Popular Blog Posts.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

Lifestyle influencers (bloggers with large, engaged audiences) collaborate with brands through sponsor networks (like Activate or Social Fabric ) and receive compensation for writing and publishing sponsored posts that review and recommend products to their readers.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 3, 2018

About two years ago, LinkedIn opened its publishing platform to all members, allowing them to publish blogs directly and promote their content throughout the LinkedIn network and beyond. While LinkedIn is primarily a B2B social media platform, both B2B and B2C brands can benefit from publishing on it.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A survey by Orbit Media Studios states that the average blog post takes almost four hours to write. That’s actually a 63% increase over 2014, when the average blog post took just under 2.5 That’s an excerpt from an article written by an AI , published in The Guardian.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 14, 2014

Garret Moon proposes re-writing your blog headlines at least three times to A/B test your headlines using Twitter and email marketing. If you are serious about blogging, invest as much resources and time as you can to headline testing and optimization. 6 Lessons for Writing Irresistibly Magnetic Blog Post Headlines.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In the intro, publishing year in review [ Kris Rusch ]; how you can use ChatGPT with examples; Collaborative writing with AI [ Andrew Mayne ]; Open AI usage guidelines ; Ethical AI usage for authors [ ALLi ]. Tell us a little bit more about you and how you got into writing and self-publishing. But before we get into it –. Joanna: Okay.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Build a Published Portfolio. At a certain point, clients you’re pitching start asking for a portfolio of your published work. They don’t want a collection of PDF or Docx files; they want to see articles published on reputable websites with you listed as the author. What’s so special about published work?

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 16, 2018

Got a new blog post ? Get more details from Google in its blog post: SEO Audit in Lighthouse for Chrome. Well, he officially resigned in December 2016 (though he had been absent from his role as liaison since July 2014) to join the U.S. Google drastically improved Search Console. No problem. SEO Click To Tweet.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Edit Your Blog Posts With Seven Simple Steps. A lot is taught about the importance of writing great blog posts, but it is in the editing of your writing that your post can really be made to shine. If left unedited, it can create a very different impression that can hurt people’s view of you and your blog.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Finally, I decided to start a blog. February 7, 2014, I started Stayclassy.dk , a fashion and lifestyle blog with focus on quality over quantity and the good life. From dinosaur to digital dude Back in 2014, when I started my blog, I think it would be fair to say I was kind of a dinosaur. You get the point.

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Backlinko

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

E-A-T first made an appearance in Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines way back in 2014. For example, if a blog post about basketball earns itself a link from a site like ESPN, this helps to build the reputation and authority of the site. For example, let’s say you run a health and fitness blog. What Is E-E-A-T?

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 6, 2023

But because they're shorter books, I've still been publishing as much. And I'm sure you could become like Kris and Dean ( WMG Publishing ) doing their monthly Kickstarter, like the way I am releasing on Amazon, like, oh, it's no big deal, it's just another series. And now people getting started like, ‘oh, I wish it was 2014.'

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Grammarly

JANUARY 10, 2023

I pushed through the discomfort and published a post. And then I kept publishing more posts, becoming a frequent author on our blog. Write blog posts and tutorials on your company’s blog. Little bits of writing every day in 2012 through 2014 really added up. Write documentation.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2017

By 2014, they saw around 5,000. Populating websites with blog content is how you end up with 434% more search engine-indexed pages than other business sites that don’t publish content. Websites w/blog content have 434% more search engine-indexed pages than those that don’t publish. Two words: Ad. Click To Tweet.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I’ve published seven books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), and the last two I’ve self-published. In this post I give the specific details of all of my sales numbers and advances with the traditional publishers. Why bloggers should self-publish.

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Fat Joe

JULY 7, 2023

This content could be a blog post, sponsored article, research paper, or infographic. Traditional newsjacking involves monitoring current news trends, especially ones that can relate to your industry, and publishing new content to coincide with newsworthy events that are industry-related.

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2022

It took me nearly seven years of blogging to create my first products: two ebooks, one for ProBlogger and one for Digital Photography School. Back in 2014, I wrote about the experience , and how it nearly never happened: My big issue was a severe lack of time. They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business.

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2022

It took me nearly seven years of blogging to create my first products: two ebooks, one for ProBlogger and one for Digital Photography School. Back in 2014, I wrote about the experience , and how it nearly never happened: My big issue was a severe lack of time. They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 29, 2022

Understanding your reader also informs things like design, what social media networks you should be engaging in, what subscription methods you should use, how frequently you should publish, and much more. I’ve previously published an exercise in building a reader profile or persona to help you get clarity around this.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Their research has been published in MarketingProfs, TNW, The Economist, Time, the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, Pub Con, and many other publications and journals. In 2014, entrepreneur and marketing guru Eric Siu bought a failing SEO agency — Single Grain — for $2. Factor #2: Access to Publishers and Influencers.

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Quick Sprout

AUGUST 8, 2022

The WordPress Gutenberg editor makes the blogging and editing process very straightforward. All the fundamentals you need to publish a blog are point and click. With Squarespace, as you’re building the blog post, you’re seeing the changes happen at the same time. After all, LinkedIn is a social network.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 29, 2022

Understanding your reader also informs things like design, what social media networks you should be engaging in, what subscription methods you should use, how frequently you should publish, and much more. I’ve previously published an exercise in building a reader profile or persona to help you get clarity around this.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Edit Your Blog Posts With Seven Simple Steps. A lot is taught about the importance of writing great blog posts, but it is in the editing of your writing that your post can really be made to shine. If left unedited, it can create a very different impression that can hurt people’s view of you and your blog.

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Buffer

JUNE 18, 2018

OK, now back to the post. Creators like you have a lot of options: blog posts , social media updates, visuals, video, slide decks , and even more. Audio is being used in clever ways to fit into the content plans of some of the top forward-thinking websites and blogs. You can listen on Apple Podcasts here or Spotify here.

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