ClearView Writing

I feel kind of sad to see that I have pretty much abandoned this blog over the last few months.  The truth of the matter is that life has just got really busy.  Victim of my own success would be a bit of an understatement, after helping several small businesses see skyrocketing organic conversions, and working on my own projects, I suddenly found myself in high demand.

September hit and things quietened down a lot which gave me some time to regroup, form a couple of personal projects and spend a couple of weeks deciding how to move forward.

The bad news is that my online passive earnings are still not enough to support me full time, my hourly contract work has kept me a little too busy to really do my own portfolio justice, the good news however is that even with Panda, I have been seeing some great traffic growth and even better conversions.

I have been writing a lot more over at SEO Chemist recently where I talk about my marketing techniques, which I think provides useful advice for all content writers, marketing or not!

Anyway, I do plan on writing here a little more in the future, and specifically would like to talk a little bit more about some writing to sell advice that I have been learning a lot about from one particular guy recently!

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I created the website I’m a Pundit a few years back after I got this insane urge to write political and economical commentary. Unfortunately my time began to become rather restricted and this great website fell from PR2 grace to PR0, I simply could not afford the time to update it any more!

I recently decided that when the time came I would not be renewing this domain, however if anyone would like to buy this website I am currently open to offers.

It only gets a trickle of traffic, and doesn’t make any money when I don’t update it so I will not be expecting much for this, however it does have a fairly large base of content so I will accept any offers from around the $50 mark. I’m a Pundit may not be getting traffic now, but a little bit of updating could see it rise quickly again!

There is a huge amount of information out there on Free dofollow backlinks, and unfortuantely most of it is either wrong of misleading.

I have written a fully comprehensive Guide to Backlinking on Hubpages.  This covers the entire truth behind backlinks, including common misconceptions of no follow and dofollow backlinks.

The truth of the matter is that free dofollow backlinks that are both free and high quality are incredibly hard to come by, and the best way to find them is to create them yourself!

Fortunately there are some great free websites which will help you to build up your free dofollow backlinks network.

• Blogger
• Hubpages
• SheToldMe
• WordPress
• eZine Articles

Using sites like these takes time and effort, but nobody ever said that SEO was easy! But if you put in the effort you could easily be receiving large numbers of PR3-5 backlinks on a large number of webpages, which you can use to feed your own websites!

The good news is that Blogger, She Told Me, and Hubpages, can all make you decent incomes as well, Hubpages alone earns me over $1000 every single month!

Working with these sites can get you free dofollow backlings, but remember that you will need to get those page ranks up!

ClearView Writing has gone from strength to strength over the past two years, and the website, and it’s content has been a little left behind as my time is spent on jobs, not the website.

I have managed to build up a rather substantial residual income over the last few months, which has given me some free time to spend on the site which was meant to be my most gracious presence on the internet.

This has been long overdue, but you will start seeing some changes over the next few months, including the overall style, the clarity of the prices, and with any luck the amount of advice and conent I can give to my readers!

As some of you amy know, I have recently have some huge successes on Hubpages, this online publishing tool has netted me some fantastic earnings over the last few months, and seems a consistantly powerful way to make money online and get great SERP rankings.

For December 2009 my earnings were,

Amazon – $1,191.82

Google – £175.89

eBay – £16.89

Kontera – $23.66

I have clearly favoured Amazon for my sales modules, however I do find that these bring me more money all in all.

If you are looking for a good starting point to make money online, and create a web presence, Hubpages is a great start, especially when compared to its competitors.

One of the most overlooked SEO tips in recent years can actually be a great way to increase organic traffic.  You know whaty, I used it right there!  Using strong, bold text is noticed by Google, even if it does not matter quite as much as it used to in the search engine rankings.

While highlighting key phrases will not increase organic traffric dramatically on its own, matching this SEO tip with a good overall SEO strategy could mean the difference between page 2 on Google and page one on Google, which could give you an amazing increase in traffic!

Using bold or strong text can however be detrimental to your website, it should be used sparsely and preferably once per article, on the keyword which is most important.  The good thing about using this stratey is that not only is it a white hat, search engine friendly technique to increase organic traffic, but since you can highlight any key word, it is much easier to make it look like your highlighting thekey phrase is part of your conveyance to the reader. This makes your site look serious and non-spammy to anyone who comes across it!

If you want to use the SEO tip on how to increase organic traffic simply take a look at how I used my keyphrase in this article. I didn’t spend much time hiding it, so it should be pretty obvious, but teh single highlight gives the game away (But only to those looking for it!)

try it yourself, you might be surprised at just how much it helps increase organic traffic to your website!

So far this month I have earned my first $200 monthly pay check from Hubpages.  This $200 is a major achievement in my six months of Hubpages experiment.  During this experiment I have learnt some pretty good things which have worked for me.

First off,

between paragraph Amazon adverts, they earned me a stunning $112, in less than a month. The remainder of my earnings came from Google Adsense, a little bit of Kontera, and a little bit of eBay earnings.

My second bit of luck was forming articles relating to several sell-able items on a particular subject.  These pulled in some huge amounts of organic Google traffic.  When this was combined with my Amazon ad setup I started seeing some great sales, and earnings.

The third and final secret to amazing results on Hubpages was to introduce interlinking between my hubs, helping to drive traffic between Hubs to ensure my visitors found a product worth buying.

Check out my most recent Hubpages stats, as you can see, my traffic has been increasing exponentially with these three simple techniques!

Until recently I had discounted the Ebay Partner Network after disappointing earnings when linked to my Hubpage websites.  In recent days however I have seen a remarkable increase in my Ebay Partner Networks, all down to Hubpages.

This was pretty surprising, considering I have had several months of small earnings through this publisher network.  When I dug a little deeper I began to find that the money I was earning on the Ebay Partner Network was down to small electronics.  This includes things like Nintendo DSi Games, and Laptop Coolers.  All of these are great little earners, and while you might not earn a huge amount per sale, it does add up VERY quickly!

I have decided to experiment with this in several ways, mixing small electronics with varying different layouts and formats.

In recent months we have seen a lot of press about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing.  Now Bing is a much more adept search engine when compared to Windows Live.  It has many more features, and is in fact very much like Google itself.

Where things start to get hazy is it’s stats that are released to the public.  We regularly get told that Google is under threat from Bing, and get given impressive graphs showing up to 20% shares in the search engine market.

Despite what the public is told on these matters I can’t help but disagree.  I have several sites in a whole range of subjects.  None of these get more than a few hits a day from Bing, compared to the thousands from Google.  It may be said that it is my particular SEO technique that is preventing my sites from being picked up by Bing.  In my opinion though it is quite simply the number of people using Google that is being reflected in my site visitors.

This means that it is still much more important for any webmaster trying to make money online to focus on Google rather than Windows Bing, or other search engines.

In the meantime, the press will continue touting Bing as a Google Killer, despite it’s continued failure to make even the slightest dint in the search engine market.