Freelance jobs at Journalism Jobs
The freelance Jobs posted at JournalismJobs are not like the other online freelance sites that I posted. The freelance jobs are mostly situated in the US and mostly are from famous publisher and sites. It’s not just freelance jobs available. You can even post your resume and get a decent full time job through this site. There are also internships and fellowships listed in this site. There is a lot of opportunity listed if you’re looking for a part time job in the state. JournalismJobs has been around for 10 years. According to the site, JournalismJobs is the largest and most visited resource for journalism jobs. It’s not a surprise that many big companies have been hiring freelancers using this site. You might just have already known this site as JournalismJobs has been mentioned in dozens of publications. There are also a lot of resources on journalism training, career articles and tools for journalists available. It’s a site not just for people who are looking for a freelance job but also a site that fills with helpful information. No wonder JournalismJobs is one of the popular sites in the net.
Getting Freelance Writer or Ghost Writer at Writer Bin
The first thing that I notice about Writer Bin is that there aren’t many projects available. Judging that it’s still a new site, let’s give it some time and see how it turns out. Sign up is free and the only fee that you need to pay is when you successfully bid a project. That goes the same if you’re hiring a freelancer. Payment can be done using paypal, check or e-gold. The commission fee is 3% of the amount bid or $3, whichever is greater. That means if you really want to bid or post a project, you need to put some down payment at the site. Once your bid or project makes the deal, you’ll be charged. These rules and regulation is just the same as other freelancer hiring sites. In order to make this site successful, I think the main thing is to get more projects listed. When the site can provide business opportunity, other things will become less important. Writer Bin also has an affiliate programs but that is just to help cover the commission expenses. Writer Bin will pay just $3 for each client referred and $1 for each writer sign up. That’s one good way to attract more business. The only thing left to do is lots and lots of advertising as to let as much people know about this site.
8 Pay Per Click Sites other then Google Adsense
Here’s a list of Pay Per Click programs other then Google Adsense. If you are ban or terminated from Google Adsense, these are your alternative.
- Pepperam Network
- Bitvertiser
- Yahoo search marketing
- Microsoft adcenter
- Miva
- 7Search advertising
- Search123
- Chitika
You might need to check if these Pay Per Click Company open to your country. Take for example yahoo which only opens to US only.
Evaluating Google Adsense and Adwords from a Different point of View
As we all know, Google Adwords is getting more and more expensive and Google Adsense is paying less and less. This is definitely not a good sign for users of Google Adwords and Adsense. Paying more and earning less is what users don’t want but benefits Google. As most of the users are complaining about this, let’s take a look what positive effect will this brings.
When Adsense is paying less, blogs quality might improve. Bloggers will try to improve their blogs as only good quality blogs will earn money from Adsense. This will also eliminate Blogs for Adsense. Blogs that created or design just to earn money from Adsense will eventually be eliminated. These blogs are created not for the sake of readers but just to earn money.
When Adwords is expensive, advertiser will choose keywords more specific and appropriate to reduce the cost. Tying to buy all of the related keywords will seem a waste of money. As advertising using Adwords is expensive, using it for clicks to earn from Adsense will be difficult to achieve.
The above situation is actually benefits to users that are not involved in using Adwords or Adsense. I’m referring to people that basically using Google search engine to look for information. They will not be happy if most of their search results always ends up with advertisement that trying to sell or asked for their money. All they wanted is able to find accurate info in fast and easy way.
Search Lessons and Money Making Information at Youtube
If you’re tired of reading blogs or websites on how to improve your online income, you might switch to watching videos instead. Just search for the related keywords at Youtube and you’ll get tons of videos about the related topic. Unfortunately not all are good and informative videos. You need to filter out to get some useful information. Couple hours of search will still gain lots of good information. You can also find some video clips made by Shoemoney. Here’s a good video clips for lesson about Google Adsense.
Everthing about DoFollow
I just stumble on a site call DoFollow. It’s kind of interesting as you can find related dofollow stuff here. The most interesting part about this site is the dofollow site directory. There are only 100 plus websites listed as the site is new and at beta stage. Well, at least it will take you some time to go over all the dofollow sites listed. But then when you do a search on dofollow, you’ll get tons of dofollow related sites and information. If you compare it with Dofollow, the site really needs to add more information. The topic is good but the content might need more work. The Dofollow site does have potential and lots of room to expend. All you need is more useful content and of cause more sites in the directory. This is an example of a good topic but lack of content. Let’s give it a few more months and see how the site turns out.
P/S: You can add your blog or site to the directory for free, just that your blog or site needs to be dofollow.
Check out Hot Words for Keywords
One of the methods to get your blog or website index at high search rank is to build a high density of keywords within. Before that we need to do some research before making the decision on which words to choose. That means we need to check which keywords is most widely search by people so that we can understand more a less what people are searching for. This task is time consuming as we need to collect a lot of data. The more data gain, the more accurate targeted visitors. It’s basically tracking down people that might be interested at your blog or website. Understanding the market and the keywords used for searching is the first step. The next step is to choose keywords that are suitable for your blog or website. Other bloggers will also be doing the same thing as you are so you might want to work smart to avoid competition. The less competitive keywords choose the easier for your site to rank high at search ranking. Personally I’m using Google Adwords to check the keywords. Keywords that came out expensive are listed as competitive. After decided which keywords for your blog or website, all you need to do is try to include those keywords in most of your articles as frequently as possible. When your blog or website gains sufficient keywords density, you’ll start to see the results. For this post, let’s just study which keywords most widely searched. You may check out Hot Words as the site provides info on top search keywords daily and monthly. The site is still new and at Beta stage but the info provided can be very useful for us.
Using Web Based Tools
I’ve notice that there has been increasing number of web based tools lately. It seems that not long in future we don’t have to carry our laptop in order to do our job. As long as we can find a computer, then we’re able to access all the application needed online. There are a lot of web based tools that gives similar function to programs like Microsoft office, Adobe, Paint, AutoCAD and programming software. As for now I still carry my laptop around for my work but when I’m away from my laptop, these web based tools become pretty handy for me. One of my favorite web based tools is Google Docs which allows me to create spreadsheets, documents and presentation. It’s very handy when I need to prepare some document urgently. Here is a site where you can find a list of 40 Excellent Web Based Tools. Make full use of it as it helps a lot when you don’t have your laptop around.
