Your Writer’s Web site - make money all year round: Issue 48
September 11th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
This week we discuss the benefits of your writer’s Web site, and how to create a site. Your writer’s Web site is your 24 x 7 x 365 sales person, bringing you income and writing gigs all year round.
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Includes:
* Editorial: Vital - Your Writer’s Web Site
* Article: Your Writers’ Web Site - The Diamond In Your Writer’s Crown
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[Editorial] Vital - Your Writer’s Web Site
Currently I’m running several series on my writing blogs. I hope you enjoy them and find them valuable.
The series:
* Time management tips for writers, on my writing blog at copywriter.typepad.com/
* How to make money freelance writing on my Fab Freelance Writing Blog - fabfreelancewriting.com/blog/
* How to make money writing for the Web on my Fab Web Writer blog at www.fabwebwriter.com/
Your Writer’s Web site - the jewel in your writer’s crown, and money-making Web sites
I hope you’ve created a Web site to promote your writing skills, and brand yourself as a writer.
In addition to their standard Web site, writers are creating sites to make money. It’s a form of self-publishing. In last week’s ezine, I told you about Deb, who’s happily turning out Web sites, and who’s negotiating the sale of a site for upwards of $33,000 for a site of just ten pages. Yes, the negotiations are still going on, the bids have exceeded last week’s $25,000. Amazing… Here’s the link to last week’s issue - http://www.box.net/shared/ivrjo2pqot
On a humbler note, but nevertheless still reasonable earnings for a newish blog, Jennifer Mattern earned over $1800 for a blog in July - allfreelancewriting.com/2007/08/04/types-of-writing/blogging/blog-earnings-update-for-july/#more-210
Every writer I know who’s turned Web publisher is making excellent money for minimal writing - Web sites equal money for writers. I’ve written an ebook to help you to get started making money in this brand new area for writers - “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” at www.abwebconsulting.com/web_sites/
Web sites and blogs: the cash rolls in
Writing Web sites, and then either monetizing the sites with advertising, or selling them, is proving to be a real money spinner for writers, both new and established. Of course, blogs continue to bring in excellent passive income, my ebook “Blogging For Dollars” gets you started - abmagic.com/Blog/blogging.html The ebook not only covers blogging for pay, but also creating your own blogs and monetizing them.
There’s a never-ending stream of money available for competent writers; the Web is absolutely buzzing. So get writing, and rake in all that lovely cash. 
Affectionately,
Angela
P.S. Remember that the holiday buying season is just weeks away. Get started NOW creating Web sites with holiday themes. It’s a bit late to sell holiday articles to print publications, but you can still propose Christmas stories to Web sites. Do it now: get writing and make this the most prosperous Christmas you’ve ever had.
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* Article: Your Writers’ Web Site - The Diamond In Your Writer’s Crown
(c) 2007 Angela Booth. All Rights Reserved.
At the start of 2007, I predicted that this year would be an amazing year for Web writers. That prediction proved accurate. I thought I was being optimistic when I made the prediction, but the reality has far exceeded my expectations.
If you can write for the Web, you can coin money as a writer. You can write Web site content (as the text for Web site pages is known) and make around $1 to $2 a word. Great rates, and equal to print rates. You can create small Web sites on topics you have an interest in and can sell the sites (which usually comprise around five to ten pages) for several thousand dollars: money for jam.
If you haven’t yet made the plunge into developing your own sites and blogs, your online journey starts with your own Web site. Look on your own personal site as the hub around which all your writing activities, both online and offline, revolve.
Your writer’s Web site: the diamond in your writer’s crown
Every writer needs a Web site.
If you’re a new writer, your Web site acts as your brochure: it shows people that you’re a writer, and that you’re available for writing gigs. Post some example of your writing to the site, so that people can see what you can do. As your experience grows, post your published writing to the site to build your online portfolio - remember to get permission to publish writing that you’ve sold. Or, post links to material online, and links to magazines.
If you’re an experienced writer, your Web site starts to build your brand. I’ve written about the importance of branding on my blogs, and will continue to do so, because branding is vital for writers.
Essentially, building a brand is building your name - your reputation. When you’re a known quantity as a writer, people offer you work; you no longer need to go hunting for writing gigs. Not only does this save time, but your growing reputation ensures that you can charge top dollar for your writing skills. People will approach you to write anything and everything from books to catalogs.
Create a basic first site: start small, and then build both your site and your career
A basic Web site consists of just one page. These mini sites are sales pages. Although a one-page site gives you a Web presence, it’s too small to get you much search engine traffic. The search engines are indexing software, and the more content on your site, the more they have to index, and the greater your chances of being found by people who are searching for your writing skills.
If you remember this concept “the more good content, the more traffic” you can’t go wrong with any Web site. However, creating a large site is a step by step process. Growing sites is an organic process. Start with an introductory page for your services, then add pages as you extend the services you offer.
Not sure what to put on your site? Here’s an example list of pages for a site for someone who’s new writer, who is offering article writing services for both magazines and Web sites:
* A home page, with basic information on your services. The home page has links to your print article and Web content article pages;
* A print article services page - this page lists articles you’ve sold to print magazines, and has links to the magazines;
* A Web content article page - describes your services. This is a Web sales page. List the prices you charge for article writing;
* A portfolio page, with examples of print and Web content articles (you can post PDFs of the print articles);
* An About page - look on this as a bio. Describe your experience, your skills, your method of work (how many revisions do you offer? How much is the retainer? When does copyright pass to the person or company who’s commissioned the articles? Etc);
* A contact page - this page can contain a Web form for people to fill in when they contact you, or it can just contain an email link.
If you’re new to Web site creation, the whole process can seem intimidating. However, as you’ll find when you take the plunge, creating sites is an easy process. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll be creating sites like a pro in no time at all.
Look on your writer’s Web site as your 24 x 7 x 365 sales person, making contacts and sales for you every day. Because of the way the search engines operate, a new site takes time to become part of a search engines’ index databases. The longer a site is online, the more trust the search engines develop in the site, and the more traffic the site will get.
A site is a must for every writer; and creating sites, as you will find, is a lot of fun. Each minute that you put into creating sites will have an enormous payoff for you in many ways in the days and years to come.
My ebook “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” gets you building sites quickly.
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