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Writer As Blogger - Issue 49 of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine

September 18th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

This week we discuss how writers can make money blogging.

Blogging is an ideal way to earn some money writing while you write your novel or write articles for magazines, or whatever else it is that you’re writing. Blogging has an enormous appetite for words, so there’s always money to be made, whether you choose to create your own money-making blogs, or blog for others. Of course, you can do both.

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Includes:

* Editorial: Writer As Blogger

* Article: Blogs And Blogging - The High-Paying New Market For Freelance Writers

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[Editorial] The Writer As Blogger

Our theme this week is blogging. Blogging fascinates writers, whether they’re experienced or novices.

I get a mile of questions about blogging every week, and am always recommending blogging to writers. Once a writer takes the blogging plunge, they always say that they wish they’d started their blog earlier.

This week I’m republishing an article which ran in one of the earliest issues of the ezine, “Blogs And Blogging - The High-Paying New Market For Freelance Writers” because it’s even more apropos in 2007 than it was last year. I’ve updated it with some links for you.

On my own writing blogs, I’m running several series over the next few weeks.

The series:

* Inspiration 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/

Until next week, happy writing - and blogging.

Affectionately,

Angela

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* The Unlimited Writing Market, The Web **

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* Article: Blogs And Blogging - The High-Paying New Market For Freelance Writers

Freelance writers are discovering a massive new writing market: blogs.

Blogs which attract lots of readers need frequent updates, so blogs are word-eating monsters. Writers who write for the most popular blogs generate an amazing amount of material, anywhere from two to ten or more blog posts (short articles, which may consist of anywhere from twenty to several hundred words) each and every day. This means that every blog needs writers, and because blogs are becoming so popular with Web sites, many businesses and publications are actively looking for freelance writers who know how to blog.

Businesses are discovering the major benefits of blogs

In your Web surfing, you may have noticed that not only do news sites have blogs, but many other sites are also jumping onto the blog bandwagon. Blogs are becoming the new “must have” of the Web world.

There’s one reason for this: the Web search engines, like Google and Yahoo. The search engines love blogs, visiting them frequently to add blogs to their indexes. This means that a Web site can get an amazing amount of traffic very quickly. Targeted traffic translates to sales and money. As more and more businesses swarm online, and discover blogs, they hire freelance writers to blog for them.

How much can you earn as a freelance blogger?

The pay for freelance blogging gigs varies, as you might expect. At the top end of the market large companies and blog networks pay $1000 (and more) a week, while at the low end of the market small businesses offer around $50 dollars a week for a single 400-word post.

The payment of $1000 would be for ten blog posts, of around 200 words, so this works out at 50 cents a word.

Of course, high traffic blogs are paying much more. And writer-bloggers who OWN those high-traffic blogs are making any where from $10,000 upwards per month.

Your pay, as a professional freelance blogger, depends on the payment that you negotiate for yourself. The pay you can demand depends on: your blogging experience, your writing experience, your ideas, and most of all, on your confidence in your skills. A word of warning: don’t blog for free. There are plenty of paying gigs to go around, so look for them.

Getting blogging gigs: it’s very easy

Getting all the blogging gigs you can handle is easy. I’ll run through some simple steps for you which should get you all the blog jobs you can handle.

1. Get your own blog, via a free service like Google’s Blogger.com. This blog acts as your blogger’s portfolio. It takes a couple of minutes to set up. Post several items to your blog. In the sidebar, place a small “for hire” notice, with your contact details.

2. Look for blogging gigs online using Google.

3. Approach companies and tell them you’re available for hire as a freelance blogger.

4. Make friends with other bloggers by leaving comments on their blogs. Let the bloggers know you’re looking for freelance blogging work.

5. Try blog networks like b5media at www.b5media.com/ which are constantly opening new channels and require bloggers.

6. Look on blog-job boards like the one at Pro Blogger - jobs.problogger.net/

7. And of course, try the out-sourcing sites like elance.com where blog jobs are advertised.

If you’ve read this article and wondered “is that all there is to getting steady freelance blogging gigs?” the short answer is, yes.

There are many reasons why blogging has become popular so quickly, and why blogs will continue to be part of the online environment. No business can afford to ignore blogging, and this means that for the foreseeable future, blogging is a brilliant new market for freelance writers.

Get started getting freelance blogging gigs today. Just follow the simple steps in this article.

If you’re keen to start blogging and blogging is a new concept for you, my Blogging For Dollars ebook includes free coaching, to get you up and blogging quickly - abmagic.com/Blog/blogging.html

And of course, to stay up to date on blogging, visit my Blogging For Dollars Blog at www.dollars2blog.com/blog/ which is the companion for the ebook.

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For the past year, I’ve been receiving messages from writers who want to create their own Web sites. They’ve heard how much money there is in Web publishing, and want a piece of the action.

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