How to Find Freelance Blogging Opportunities Online

There are tons of opportunities to make money from blogging. Even if you don’t run a blog of your own. One of the ways you can do it is to provide blogging services on a freelance basis.

The process is very simple – you create content for popular blogs and they publish it. Sometimes you get a byline, which you use to promote your services. Sometimes the blog publishes your content under somebody else’s name, so you become a ghostwriter.

Ghostwriting won’t be ideal if you’re trying to build a personal brand, but it’s often more lucrative than blogging under your own name. And it’s a good way to get your foot in the door or start a freelance blogging or writing career.

But where do you start and how do you find the most lucrative opportunities? Truth is, you probably won’t find the best jobs advertised online. They usually go to people with an existing relationship with blog owners and editors.

The next best alternatives are online job boards and sites like Upwork.

We recently published a blog post listing some of the best online job boards for people looking for their first, or more, clients. You can check it out here.

128 Words to Use Instead of “Very” (Infographic)

If you’re a blogger or writer and find yourself using the word “very” too often, this infographic is for you.

It showcases 128 words you can instead of ‘very’.

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How to Boost Your Organic Click Through Rates

Getting onto the first page of Google is tough. There are thousands, if not millions of pages competing for those first few positions. Once you’re there, you need to make sure your link is the one people click on.

How do you do that? Simple. Optimise your title tag/headline to encourage clicks.

Here are some excellent tips for doing that, and choosing which pages to target, by Larry Kim from WordStream and Brian Dean from Backlinko.

Source: Search Engine Land

The SEO Alphabet (a Really Useful Infographic)

SEO remains a mystery for many people who aren’t involved with it every day.

If you work in the internet marketing industry, you’ll be familiar with the glazed expression that appears on people’s faces when you start talking about Google penalties (until they’re the victim, of course), nofollow links and meta description tags.

But if you’re on the other side of the fence and you’ve just started taking a keen interest in SEO and all that comes with it, you’ll probably appreciate the infographic we’ve just published in a new blog post.

It runs through each letter of the alphabet and lists SEO terminology related to each letter.

A=Anchor text, B=Backlink, C=Content.

You get the idea.

It’s aimed at the newbie, so it that’s you, take a look.

No Google Toolbar PageRank Update for 2013 – Confirmed!

It’s been 8 months since Google last updated the little green PageRank bar we see on its official toolbar for Internet Explorer and unofficial extensions and add-ons for Chrome, Firefox etc. This week, however, there seems further proof that toolbar PageRank is coming to and end.

On Twitter, Niels Bosch asked Matt Cutts if there will be a PageRank update before the end of the year.

Matt Cutts replied saying “I would be surprised if that happened.”

A little while later Matt Cutts published this video, which is in response to a similar question from Dileep.

All of this doesn’t mean that PageRank is dead. It just means that we won’t know the PageRank of any given page. Google still uses PageRank to help it rank pages, and it adjusts the metrics internally every day.

Really Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

Sitting at a laptop all day, tap, tap, tapping away at the keys, is something millions of us do every single day for our work, and at the weekend and in the evening for pleasure. Keyboard shortcuts make life easier, but how many do you know, and how many of the ones you know do you actually use?

This infographic is worth sharing as it contains an indispensable list of keyword shortcuts you can incorporate into your everyday computer use.

Source: MashGeek