Should I advertise my website?

PaperPerfect has had a facelift; it now looks more corporate and beautiful. As far as editing websites go (some of them are stylistically pretty ugly) I like it. I've been waiting since the redesign for the business to explode, but it hasn't; I'm guessing because Google is unsure about all the site changes.

Meanwhile other proofreading and editing websites or online editing services are advertising aggressively on Google, which must mean they're doing well. Editage.com for example, looks very robust, but has spelling errors on the home page. Nevertheless - their 'premium' service (which is about as good as my regular everyday editing costs $16/page, 3x more than mine. No wonder they can afford to advertise.

It's a vicious cycle; charge much more, advertise much more... I'd rather change less and not advertise but the problem is your site gets buried.

Keep in mind, that if you're paying for editing and proofreading, you're probably paying for their advertising as well.

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Avoid these common mistakes and double your website traffic in 3 days

I've been self-employed for over a year, and most days are pretty good. However, when my online editing business goes through a slump, my financial situation can quickly become dire. I was getting about 40 people a day to my site - not a lot, I know, but because my blog has very little extra content and focuses exclusively on offering online proofreading services, most of my traffic was targeted and I could usually get enough business.

Of course I knew that getting more traffic was a good idea. Even if people find and explore my site for other reasons (ie informational articles about writing and editing), the overall page rank would probably go up, meaning more natural search traffic for my targeted keywords.

Getting more traffic, however, is not always so easy... but I did discover that I'd been doing some things very wrong, things that were crippling my site's traffic. Fixing these things took a couple of days, was free, and has already produced double the traffic.

1) If you're using Wordpress or another blogging system, change your url format! I'd seen this advice before, many times, but didn't listen. I was afraid of screwing up all my links and making my site ineffective. Finally, I just went ahead and changed the default Wordpress url format to a 'blog post/month' format. This way the titles of your posts are in the url - which dramatically helps search engine results. I don't fully understand 'redirects' - and I've heard that doing this can mess up your site's ranking. I don't know. For me, after changing url format all my links automatically work, my site is still PR2 in Google, and I'm getting double the traffic. I can only assume that with time, the improved url's will generate even more traffic.

2) Use 'All in one SEO' or similar to change the meta title tags of your posts. Every post needs to have a catchy title that grabs readers attentions; but it also needs to have a different meta/html title full of keywords that people will search for. The way to get both on Wordpress is with the "All in one SEO" plugin. Take the time to do this for every post.


3) Make a specific page for anything related that people might search for. I run an online proofreading and editing site. Who are my potential clients? Students, academics or authors writing things in English. What are they going to be searching for? People don't search for general stuff like 'writing tips and tutorials'. People search for very specific things, like "How to write X". Knowing that, I've put up a series of articles, like "How to write a thesis statement for your dissertation". This is an article that is likely to be found and read, by people finishing their dissertation; and presto - they're already familiar with my site and services.

4) Make an event. I started a $100 writing contest. In just a few days, that post has attracted about 100 backlinks and lots of traffic. Of course these are not necessarily visitors who will need my editing and proofreading services.

However, the traffic (and backlinks) will help my site seem more relevant and thus rank better.

5) Give them something to do. I added a typing game on my site. It's relevant ("test your typing skills") to my site's content and, because people love tests and challenges, will probably get some people to stay on my site a little longer. This increases my site's 'stickiness' and thus I'll rank better.

6) I redid my site's theme/look. You shouldn't change your theme or look that often - and it's true people are looking for content and generally ignore the style of your webpage - but if it looks old, home-made, or outdated, people will probably click off it fast. I liked my old site; but it had a lot of content and different colors. It had a few small people pictures. My new site has a simple homepage with big pictures of smiling people (people like people...) see it at http://www.paper-perfect-editing.com.

7) A secondary blog. It's difficult to really explode my traffic because my site is just a 'services' site; it can never have mass appeal for lots of people. Therefore, I'm starting another blog full of writing tips, which will be easier to promote and get backlinks to; of course everypage of this new blog will point to the website I want to promote. Although it will take time to build up traffic, the project is worth doing.

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In 1000 words or less, tell us what you hate about the world – what bothers you or ticks you off, and how you’d fix it if you were running things. How would politics/economies be organized? Would there be more freedom or less? New laws or rules? You don’t necessarily have to argue for a world that would be better for everyone – if you want to be a despot or tyrant, tell us why. We are looking for the best and most interesting writing; not necessarily the nicest.

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Are Indians better English writers than Americans?

Awhile ago I posted about how you need an American copy editor or proofreader, rather than someone from India, because only an American native speaker can make your writing smooth, clear, and natural. Today I'm changing my position.

I've been reading through the articles on article databases (I'm on articlebase.com now). These are sites where writers 'dump' content in the hopes that other website owners will 'syndicate' or copy their article, providing a link back to whatever content or website the original author choose, thus helping their online business or affiliate sales.

I'm looking for articles about writing or editing to put on my main editing website. And I've been surprised. Most of the articles by Americans are mediocre at best and full of spelling mistakes. And some of the articles by Indian authors are amazing. Jaw dropping. I'm reading articles on 'loan applications' or 'property appraisals' and the writing is so freaking good, I want to put it straight into a literary novel masterpiece.

Listen to this:

Taming The Book Proposal, Author: Vishwajeet

Oh, that most maddening of documents! For so many of us eager to move forward with our nonfiction projects, it looms large like a guard at the queen’s castle, blocking the path to publication. Its perfection eludes us yet it stands there teasing, “Complete me, or your manuscript will never see the light of day, mwahahahaha!”

Is that great or what?! Ironically, I usually caution writers to keep it simple, take out their big words and long sentences - but this is only because the average American writer can't write well and is sure to mess it up.

Things are looking down for America; either because of poor education or laziness, writing skill have plummeted. Even people with the inclination and desire to publish a book write poorly! Most likely they're reading crap or online articles only while Indians are reading classics and philosophy; that's my bet.

I don't care either way; now I know who to turn to if I need really great writing done.

The Virtues of Writing - a fantastic essay on writing

**I found this rather strange article on writing by (I'm assuming) an Indian guy writing articles for pay. His 5 essays on 'articlebase.com' are mostly about loans and property. I don't know how much he charges, but he's a brilliant writer and there's something very literary about this essay. If you need very good, original content or articles, look him up. Personally, I'd like to hire him to ghostwrite a novel.**

Author: Shivanshu Bhugra

Writing becomes a necessity when the worthier elements of life like love and joy, become pursuits instead of possessions. Those who like to mouth ‘I love to write’ might as well have ‘loved to bungee jump’. So often, writing is an escape rather than a commitment, an alternative rather than a motive, a hobby rather than an involvement.

The difference between writing, when writing is the object of a desire, and writing, when it is the dearth of one, is similar to the difference between consuming food through your mouth or your nostrils. One is precise; the other is either foolhardy or deliberate.

A failure in one’s life is an achievement in one’s vanities. A hurt pride resorts to dissimilar paths of self-absorption eluding the one that confronts its vulnerabilities. Those who fail as intellectuals, rise as diplomats, but never cede to be individuals – because compliance with circumstances defeats the purport of the indomitable convictions of man, so likely, we forge more humane opportunities. Opportunities that are severely consistent, ripe and simple. Opportunities like writing.
Once again, take notice – Any man can breathe. Any man can disembowel liquid. Any man can write.

The object of scrutiny when two things are placed in contrasting contest is not spurious triumph, but progress through aptitude. Sometimes, it is essential to lose, and sometimes it is downright pivotal; it is forever substantial to remember that neither is success a construct of victories, nor is it a servant of one. Success lies deep in the path of experience and often, unknowingly, people who disembowel liquid, bungee jumpers, writers - pass it demurely. It is a fervent moment writhing within several unnamed others; it cannot be achieved, it has to be a yielding harvest.

In writing, there are no discoveries, only inventions – those, that either concoct interest or intrigue. If anything in the written connotation is a function of the former, it is languid and specious. If anything, at all, as it has been a rarity for so long, compromises with the latter, it is grand, unique, most welcome, and most awaited.
Uselessness is an innate, inherent part of writing anything. Futility, you see, is perfect and the only thing that is so. Those who master it are legends, those who come across it accidentally are writers, and those who tend towards it are fools. Those who come closest are renowned as professionals.

Precision in any sort of writing is a triviality and a widowed cliché. There is no ‘bull’s eye’ in perspectives, in predilection or in opinion; it is consequential to generalize. A thing that is meant to socialize with more than a single existent word should never focus or centralize acutely. It’ll fail to stand ground, and eventually fail to impress.
The diversity one writer inures to delineate himself from another is only in an unrealized, imperfect conformity of perseverance. Hard work is an unknown realm, a world within a world, a most secret horizon of each written syllable – when we expand these realms and horizons, when we free our worlds, we can hope towards hope… to be writers. A just and lively hope to be good writers, and if not, efficient in the least.

There is still a last truth to reckon with, again and again, until it is defunct and old and as gray as cement stripping off naked walls –
Any man can breathe. Any man can disembowel liquid. Any man can write.
Learn to survive it.

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Online dissertation writing services - BEWARE

In browsing articles on good writing for my site, I came across this fantastic article about online dissertation writing services. If you're writing your dissertation, thesis, essay or other big research project, it may have crossed your mind to just let somebody else do it. Hell, it's a lot of work and for most people, only a requirement to get a degree. While I sympathize, and have no ethical issues with paying for online writing services that can crank out your dissertation, the following article offers a severe warning against them. Why? Because, while promoting such services, the article is itself terribly written. It's almost indecipherable - which is, in my experience, what you may get if you pay for a service to write your dissertation for you. I've edited dissertations and theses that have been written by such services (the students want me to 'clean them up') however they were so filled with plagiarism it was nearly impossible. Read the following before you pay for a dissertation writing service.

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