Posted by John S. on August 23rd, 2008
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This is a guest post from Nicole Dean of www.EasyPLR.com
Recently, in an interview, I was asked “Is it ethical to use private label rights and ghostwritten articles?”
Let me step back a moment and explain… Private label rights (or PLR) articles and ghostwritten articles are used by web owners as a method of outsourcing some of their content.
* PLR articles are packages of articles that are pre-written and sold to more than one person.
* Ghostwritten articles are articles that are written by someone...
Posted by John S. on August 23rd, 2008
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Welcome back to my list of writing helpers. If you haven’t yet, check out the first four sources of blog content in part 1. Now I’m going to take you through the last four ways that you can feed great content into your blog without spending hours writing it.
5. Add RSS News Feeds
As you probably already know, most blogs have what is known as an RSS feed. This is where, when set up by the blog owner, readers can subscribe to the feed and be notified of new posts to the blog via email or feed...
Posted by John S. on August 23rd, 2008
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You know your blog needs content to stay alive. Your readers demand it, most search engines demand it, and frankly it’s not really a blog if you never add anything to it. But what if you’re just not a writer? Maybe you know how to pick the best food for show dogs, but just lack the ability to write it all out. Or maybe you just don’t have the time or energy to post more than once a week, but you know your blog needs to be updated more often than that.
Don’t worry! You can still...
Posted by John S. on August 23rd, 2008
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The usual tip is to write what you know, write about the tings you are already an expert at. I’m going to turn that on it’s head and say instead: write what you don’t know.
Am I nuts? Maybe. But let me explain.
A couple years ago I was very into model trains. It sounds cheesy, I know, but it was a hobby passed down from my father and I enjoyed it. Several times I thought about starting a blog about model trains, and three times I actually did. The problem was I could never get past...