Thanks for your feed back Michelle I appreciate you letting me know how you are doing.
I want you to know that I have written more then 1,000 articles on lawns and Car/RV topics and I know some times it is difficult. Here are some tips that will help.
1. Understanding the topic really well. (After a few weeks on the same topic, you will find you need to do less research to write very informative article.)
2. Provide value to the reader. Pick 2 to 6 points that present valuable information to the reader. Include these in your article
3. Use article Idea outlines. Pack these outlines with a lot of ideas. Then just pick and choose which ideas you want to write about. Having good idea outlines allows you to write lots of articles from similar ideas.
4. Each time you do research save the documents you researched into a folder on that topic. You may be able to find more ideas from the articles you have already research later on.
5. Set goals. Plan what you will accomplish ahead of time. If you have 3 hours to work, set a goal you can achieve like writing 8 three word articles or 15 150 word articles. Planning helps you to accomplish a lot more every time you sit down to write. I write my plans down, while my computer loads up. When ever I feel myself getting distracted, I just look at my goals and this helps me to be able to focus.
I have about ten different angles to approach the 'lawn aeration' topic on. To keep from getting bored, I just change the angles and by the time I come back to the same angle, the article sounds completely different.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
5 Reasons for Rejection form Post Runner
5 Reasons for Rejection form Post Runner
1- 1 out of 4 post runners site owners never check there sites and so this articles get returned after seven days.
2- Also a few publishers will reject anything that is outsourced, if this happens, just submit to another directory
3- Not the right topic for the site. If the article is off topic, it may get rejected.
4- Bad English or spelling errors. Just edit it and re submit it.
5- Article fails copyscape or it gets flagged for duplicate content. This should never happen, but I get an email if it does and I ask you to rewrite it the article
Also if the article comes up as having a duplicate title, (this is probably my fault. Just change the title and resubmit and remember to change the title on your spreadsheet.
1- 1 out of 4 post runners site owners never check there sites and so this articles get returned after seven days.
2- Also a few publishers will reject anything that is outsourced, if this happens, just submit to another directory
3- Not the right topic for the site. If the article is off topic, it may get rejected.
4- Bad English or spelling errors. Just edit it and re submit it.
5- Article fails copyscape or it gets flagged for duplicate content. This should never happen, but I get an email if it does and I ask you to rewrite it the article
Also if the article comes up as having a duplicate title, (this is probably my fault. Just change the title and resubmit and remember to change the title on your spreadsheet.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Training For Article Writers
This is important training information for all writers.
First, make sure you have my contact information: you should have it in your emails
Next, time change information. (between US MST and the Philippines)
We are 14 hours behind in the Spring summer and 15 hours behind in the Fall and winter. This makes contacting difficult and may require you and me to plan ahead.
We don’t work on Sundays, (and you shouldn’t either :) and so you will have a difficult time getting a hold of me when it is on Monday until 11pm.
I work everyday Monday through Friday. 9-5.30 pm. This means that I am almost always online from 11 pm to 7:30 am. If you need to talk to me, this is always a good time. You can also contact me any time by email.
You can work any time that suits you, but it should be daily and at the same time everyday if possible. The most important thing to me is that you get your articles written everyday and that they are decent quality.
Expectations:
We expect you to be able to write and submit 3000 words everyday or about 15000 words per week after the first month. The average pay for writing and submitting these articles is $100 per week. This is a requirement after the first month as long as you have the assignments to fulfill. Pay is based on the amount of articles completed and it can fluctuate slightly up or down according to how much you complete. I will try my best to keep you fully occupied and even providing you extra work in the future if you want it.
All of your content is required to be 100% original and unique. If needed, we may employ copyscape software to ensure content originality. We do not currently use copyscape but several of the sites we submit to have started using it and so they let me know every time they encounter work the is copied or too close in content to another article. If this happens on accident, you will be allowed to rewrite the article. No duplicate content will be accepted. “Snatched’ or purposely copied material will result in immediate dismissal.
We will train you how to submit articles to Post runner, and BMR and (possibly more directories later.) Submission are relatively easy and they take 3-5 minutes per article, including adding the links to the articles.
We may also train you to do other fun link building activities in the future
Vacations and Time off.
If you are going to be sick or have an emergency please let me know as soon as you can. This is important. Emergencies should not happen very often. If you would like to go on vacation please let me know at least one week in advance. Right now we are not paying you for your time off. But that may change later on.
Compensation
Typical compensation is based on the amount of assigned work completed. A typical 300 word article that is assigned, is worth $1.60, posting that article up in post runner is worth another $0.40. So that article is worth $2. Ten submitted articles in one day would be worth $20. If the article is rejected from the first directory, you will be required to resubmit them to another directory until it is accepted. (This is easy to do.)
Each employee has their own spreadsheet with their name on it. Your google spreadsheet will allow you to keep track of your work. Each week their will be a new tab, showing you your weeks assignment. It will contain all of your post runner assignments with original titles for the week, and your BMR assignments with Titles as well. As you finish the articles and publish them, write in the date completed on the spreadsheet next to the article Title. This will allow both of us to keep track of your daily publishing, verify your work, and pay you on a weekly basis.
Send me a report by email each week by Friday or Saturday night with the titles and publication dates of all these articles you have published for the week. I will need to verify your published titles in post runner and BMR and then I and will send you payment during the first part of the following week.
How to use Google Spreadsheet
You will receive your spreadsheet link by email. Open the link to the spread sheet. The bottom of the spreadsheet has tabs, each tab corresponds to one week’s assignment. For example, a week where you are asked to write 50 articles may include fifty article titles with anchors and anchor links.
When the spreadsheet is open you will see these columns,
Article Title – This is the title you Should use for article
Anchor 1 and Link 1. This is the anchor text I want you to use for the first link and url I want that word to link to.
Anchor 2 and Link 2. The anchor text I want you to use for the second link and url I want that word to link to.
Both of this anchors should be included in the article you write, so that it will be easier to add the url links to them when you post them up in PR / BMR.
PR (post runner) articles need to have at least 300 words in the article body. And usually have 2 links.
BMR articles are similar to post runner articles except for the fact that they will only need 150-175 words in the body and contain only one link rather than two.
The last column is the date published column where you will keep track of the date you publish the articles
How to Use Post Runner
The URL for post runner is www.postrunner.com/write. I will be sending you the username and password soon.
Post runner is set up like the dashboard of a wordpress blog, so if you are familiar with word press, you should have an easy time using it. Post runner has more than 1000 article directories you can post on and receive back links from.
After logging in on the left side there is a ‘Posts’ module. You should click on add new under posts. Then copy the post you have written and paste the post into the posts area and the title into the title area. (Make sure the formatting is correct, if the formatting is off, you will need to figure out how to fix it. You should paste plain text. Bolding is ok.)
Next you will need to create to links. (One link for each anchor.) Use the mouse to highlight the words you wish to build a link from. (make sure there are not extra spaces and that the URL is properly formatted.) Then with the anchor words highlighted, click on the hyper link button. (located top middle above the post and below the title.) and then paste your url into box and click insert. Go ahead and add the second link as well.
Now you are ready to publish. To the right of the post, change the publishing date to tomorrow and click enter. Now choose a directory. (There are a lot of variables, I will show you this when we do online training.) Then click on ‘check and save’ and then click on publish.
How to Use BMR
Start by going to buildmyrank.com. Then enter the user name and password. This takes you to the dashboard. Click on the posts tab at the top and then click on write post. First make sure you select the write domain at the top for which you wish to build a link. Next copy and past the article and title into to content portion and then move the title to where it should be with control-X and control-V. The next step it to find you anchor in the article and add a link. (With BMR, it is best to have the link be in the top half of the article.) After adding the link, you click ‘submit and add another’ and then continue posting up all your articles. At the end of posting your last article, just click on submit. This will take you to all the posts you have put up and you can make sure that you have the right number of articles in pending.
How to send me an Attachment
When you send me and attachment, I would like you to paste the article into and email and also attach it to the email. If you can send it to me in google documents that would be even better. Because then both of use will have an online copy of what ever it is you sent. I actually think it is a swell idea to write all your articles in google documents because it automatically saves every few seconds and you never have to worry about loosing your work.
First, make sure you have my contact information: you should have it in your emails
Next, time change information. (between US MST and the Philippines)
We are 14 hours behind in the Spring summer and 15 hours behind in the Fall and winter. This makes contacting difficult and may require you and me to plan ahead.
We don’t work on Sundays, (and you shouldn’t either :) and so you will have a difficult time getting a hold of me when it is on Monday until 11pm.
I work everyday Monday through Friday. 9-5.30 pm. This means that I am almost always online from 11 pm to 7:30 am. If you need to talk to me, this is always a good time. You can also contact me any time by email.
You can work any time that suits you, but it should be daily and at the same time everyday if possible. The most important thing to me is that you get your articles written everyday and that they are decent quality.
Expectations:
We expect you to be able to write and submit 3000 words everyday or about 15000 words per week after the first month. The average pay for writing and submitting these articles is $100 per week. This is a requirement after the first month as long as you have the assignments to fulfill. Pay is based on the amount of articles completed and it can fluctuate slightly up or down according to how much you complete. I will try my best to keep you fully occupied and even providing you extra work in the future if you want it.
All of your content is required to be 100% original and unique. If needed, we may employ copyscape software to ensure content originality. We do not currently use copyscape but several of the sites we submit to have started using it and so they let me know every time they encounter work the is copied or too close in content to another article. If this happens on accident, you will be allowed to rewrite the article. No duplicate content will be accepted. “Snatched’ or purposely copied material will result in immediate dismissal.
We will train you how to submit articles to Post runner, and BMR and (possibly more directories later.) Submission are relatively easy and they take 3-5 minutes per article, including adding the links to the articles.
We may also train you to do other fun link building activities in the future
Vacations and Time off.
If you are going to be sick or have an emergency please let me know as soon as you can. This is important. Emergencies should not happen very often. If you would like to go on vacation please let me know at least one week in advance. Right now we are not paying you for your time off. But that may change later on.
Compensation
Typical compensation is based on the amount of assigned work completed. A typical 300 word article that is assigned, is worth $1.60, posting that article up in post runner is worth another $0.40. So that article is worth $2. Ten submitted articles in one day would be worth $20. If the article is rejected from the first directory, you will be required to resubmit them to another directory until it is accepted. (This is easy to do.)
Each employee has their own spreadsheet with their name on it. Your google spreadsheet will allow you to keep track of your work. Each week their will be a new tab, showing you your weeks assignment. It will contain all of your post runner assignments with original titles for the week, and your BMR assignments with Titles as well. As you finish the articles and publish them, write in the date completed on the spreadsheet next to the article Title. This will allow both of us to keep track of your daily publishing, verify your work, and pay you on a weekly basis.
Send me a report by email each week by Friday or Saturday night with the titles and publication dates of all these articles you have published for the week. I will need to verify your published titles in post runner and BMR and then I and will send you payment during the first part of the following week.
How to use Google Spreadsheet
You will receive your spreadsheet link by email. Open the link to the spread sheet. The bottom of the spreadsheet has tabs, each tab corresponds to one week’s assignment. For example, a week where you are asked to write 50 articles may include fifty article titles with anchors and anchor links.
When the spreadsheet is open you will see these columns,
Article Title – This is the title you Should use for article
Anchor 1 and Link 1. This is the anchor text I want you to use for the first link and url I want that word to link to.
Anchor 2 and Link 2. The anchor text I want you to use for the second link and url I want that word to link to.
Both of this anchors should be included in the article you write, so that it will be easier to add the url links to them when you post them up in PR / BMR.
PR (post runner) articles need to have at least 300 words in the article body. And usually have 2 links.
BMR articles are similar to post runner articles except for the fact that they will only need 150-175 words in the body and contain only one link rather than two.
The last column is the date published column where you will keep track of the date you publish the articles
How to Use Post Runner
The URL for post runner is www.postrunner.com/write. I will be sending you the username and password soon.
Post runner is set up like the dashboard of a wordpress blog, so if you are familiar with word press, you should have an easy time using it. Post runner has more than 1000 article directories you can post on and receive back links from.
After logging in on the left side there is a ‘Posts’ module. You should click on add new under posts. Then copy the post you have written and paste the post into the posts area and the title into the title area. (Make sure the formatting is correct, if the formatting is off, you will need to figure out how to fix it. You should paste plain text. Bolding is ok.)
Next you will need to create to links. (One link for each anchor.) Use the mouse to highlight the words you wish to build a link from. (make sure there are not extra spaces and that the URL is properly formatted.) Then with the anchor words highlighted, click on the hyper link button. (located top middle above the post and below the title.) and then paste your url into box and click insert. Go ahead and add the second link as well.
Now you are ready to publish. To the right of the post, change the publishing date to tomorrow and click enter. Now choose a directory. (There are a lot of variables, I will show you this when we do online training.) Then click on ‘check and save’ and then click on publish.
How to Use BMR
Start by going to buildmyrank.com. Then enter the user name and password. This takes you to the dashboard. Click on the posts tab at the top and then click on write post. First make sure you select the write domain at the top for which you wish to build a link. Next copy and past the article and title into to content portion and then move the title to where it should be with control-X and control-V. The next step it to find you anchor in the article and add a link. (With BMR, it is best to have the link be in the top half of the article.) After adding the link, you click ‘submit and add another’ and then continue posting up all your articles. At the end of posting your last article, just click on submit. This will take you to all the posts you have put up and you can make sure that you have the right number of articles in pending.
How to send me an Attachment
When you send me and attachment, I would like you to paste the article into and email and also attach it to the email. If you can send it to me in google documents that would be even better. Because then both of use will have an online copy of what ever it is you sent. I actually think it is a swell idea to write all your articles in google documents because it automatically saves every few seconds and you never have to worry about loosing your work.
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