Ghost Writers' World

First of all apologies for not being able to post during the last two weeks. I normally post every Tuesday when both my kids are at school, giving me a bit of extra time to write here, but the last two weeks were absolutely crazy. I still have a lot on my plate but I have this unfinished business to take care of first. So, here I am with my next post with tips of how to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing. In my previous posts, I have been emphasizing a lot on how useful it can be to create a blog for anyone, but it especially helps if you are a freelance writer. It not only gives you a space to share your thoughts, knowledge and expertise with others, it also gives you an opportunity to practice your writing skills. What's even better is that you can earn through your blog! That's an added bonus, isn't it? When you put your resources such as time, energy, research and writing skills to create an informative and amazing blog for your readers out there, it su...

In my previous blog I talked about the two best ways to start your career as a freelancer writer. If you missed it out, click here to read it. In the blog, I promised I will be talking about about how to make money through blogging in future. The future is now the present. So, here I am to fulfill this promise. The next series of my blog posts will be all about the different ways to earn through blogging. Blogging pays. That's true! Some of the blogs like The Huffington Post , Mashable , Tech Crunch , Life Hacker and so many more are literally turning over hundreds of thousands of millions a month. Yes, you read that right...millions a month! You could too, one day, but before you start building your palaces on Mars, let's come back to Earth. Earning such serious amount of cash requires a lot of time, great writing skills, true dedication and excellent marketing skills. For starters, all this doesn't come easy. The question is how do these blogs earn so we...

What is Social Media? Do I really need to tell you about it? I'm sure you all know, but what you might know is how to use it's power to advertise and market your products or services. As the name suggests, social media are media created for the purpose of social interaction. On social media sites like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and even popular blogs and forums, people interact by creating, sharing, and exchanging information and ideas in virtual communities. Making Effective use of Social Media If you create remarkable content, visitors to your page will share it with their friends on social media. If the content is really good, people will create a back-link to it. We’ve already discussed how important back-links are to your e-business or bricks-and-mortar company. And word of mouth counts towards promoting your business too! If many read something you wrote or created and they tell their friends, your post can go viral! That spells huge traffic to y...

Here I am again, fulfilling my promise to provide you with plenty of ideas to get back-links on your blog or website to increase your chances of being ranked higher in Google search and let other people find you quickly and easily.  Without wasting much time, let's find out what these tricks are : 1. Complementary Business Now for this you'll need to find some businesses that complement yours and suggest linking to your website to help their visitors. For example, if you sell books, contact another business that sells or supplies books or a blog that reviews books and discuss the possibility of linking to your website. 2. Offer a testimonial If you use a product or service, write a simply great testimonial or review that would catch one's attention straight away, and of course, include a link. So you can write a wonderful testimonial of the blog that reviews books and send it to the blog site……along with your link! 3. Write a Glowing Review If you wr...

If you are a freelance writer like me, you know hundreds of clients come up to you asking you to write SEO-optimised articles, blogs, or product descriptions. They give you a list of keywords and sometimes mention a keyword density to use in the text. Why do they do that? Why is everyone so crazy about SEO? Let's find out. What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)? Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of getting traffic to your website by listing on a search engines. When you type in something in you're looking for in your search engine like Google or Yahoo, it returns a long list of results. The results are returned on the basis of a particular ranking done by these search engines. Now, how are these ranked? All the web pages, documents, videos and local listings are ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to the person conducting the search.  For example: if your keywords are, lets say, 'ghostwriting book's, and ...

We've talked about earning money by having your own blog or website earlier. Haven't we? Now let's find out more about your blog here and of course find out as to why I've one of own;) What is a Blog? A blog is a website where the owner or group of owners or operator posts opinions, information and items of interest on a regular basis. A blog is often part of a personal or company’s website (but mine isn't and I'll tell you why in a bit). It is a pull-down menu tab on their main website. Blog writers use their blog to share opinions, brag about company or personal successes and/or share information that might be useful to their customers or visitors. Blog entries should celebrate employee or client successes. It may also advertise upcoming events or new products. Now as to why my blog isn't a part of another website. Well, this blog of mine is not meant to make profits. It's purely for sharing useful information, telling others about way...

You might have heard the phrase 'Ideas sell' before. The truth is everything sells! We always are in need of certain things. When we need them , we buy them from the sellers who sell those.  But when there are a large number of sellers selling the same things, what is your chance of making a sale? What will make you stand out from the rest of the crowd? That may depend on a number of factors: 1. Where do you Stand? Let's say you are trying to sell handbags on eBay. Obviously there are others who're doing the same. People will choose to buy from you if you have made some a large number sales in the past, hold a good reputation ( for example if  you're a Top-rated seller with lots of positive feedbacks). You might need some good marketing strategies and advertisement to show your prominence. 2. Uniqueness: Considering the same example as above, your bags have a chance of selling more if your stock is unique and different from that of others : something that...

Making money online doesn't have to be complicated. You can do it without any experience, starting now. How, you ask? Well, there are lots of ways but this blog post is all about doing it through your own blog or website. What is a Website? Do I really need to tell you? In this technologically advanced world, we all have heard of websites. Haven't we?  While many of us are already aware of the term,  I'm sure there is a bunch of people there who wish to know what a website is before they start making money out of it. So here we go. A website is a collection of different web pages brought together to serve a common purpose. It may contain text, audio, video, graphics, information or may be used to sell certain items. As an example, you can see Amazon is a website. Ebay is another one. All websites have a homepage and several other pages with items or services to sell, help, contact pages and more. They are all combined to give this website its full form a...