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Monday, 24 November 2014

Make A Living Writing Blog - To Be Bigger & Better Very Soon

Ola my dear readers!

There cannot be any better feeling than giving your blog all new life. Yes! We are all set to start our Make A Living Writing Blog look extremely bigger ad better. The new blog will definitely be moving to our very own new domain which will be revealed very soon. And this time, it is going to include wider options for all of you to help making money by not even writing but by several other ways.

Make A Living Writing was inactive for almost an year but gone are those days.

We definitely are hungry for some great suggestions which we can incorporate in our new version of the blog. Do email your suggestions/feedback to "MakeALivingBlog@gmail.com" and we shall definitely incorporate all that you suggest to us. Promise!

With a promise to help you in a bigger and better way, we shall see you soon.

Keep Writing! Keep Sharing!

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

20 Best Ways To Get Freelance Writing Clients (Assignments) : Part 1

Information is flooding everywhere. You just type a single keyword and you will get millions of results. This will help you understand the scope of writing and of freelance writers. By this, I do not mean to mention that any 'this or that' sort of so-called writer can make a good career, not at all. Like any other field, Writing also needs quality writers like you.

Considering the number of quality writers present around, it becomes very important for each of us to have a good number of clients who will give us work. They have options, so they need a reason from you to hire you for their services. The reason will definitely have to be created by you, isn't it? (Your quality content and unique writing style)



Let me help you with 20 best experimented and well-researched ways to get freelance writing clients.

1. Write For Top Bloggers
This is something which will rarely be advertised properly. There are a lot of top bloggers who pay for a quality content written for their blog. 
How do I know whether they pay? You will surely see this mentioned somewhere on their blog. You will have to spend few minutes on it to understand this. If it is not mentioned anywhere and you want to give it a try, drop an email (you will find it mentioned in 'Contact Us' or something like this) asking if they are looking for paid blogger. No one will kill you for that.
Why do they need this? Nice question! I am sure you might be thinking that the top bloggers already have many people ready to write as a guest blogger for free, then why would they need to pay someone for the same. Logically, you are right, but practically not. Having many interested guest bloggers will not guarantee the quality content. With the increasing number of promotion-hungry bloggers, it becomes very difficult for the top bloggers to moderate each and every post and to check on the quality. They would rather get free from this headache by offering financial benefits to quality contributors. It will not be wrong to mention that financial benefits will make you more serious towards writing quality content. 
How much do they pay? It is all case-specific. Some of the top bloggers can pay up to $80 for each quality post, whereas there are some who can pay $5 for the same. You need to take care of the fact that you cannot be greedy specially when you have just started it. Remember that it takes time, you cannot do it overnight.
2. Google It
Am I kidding? I know that you know this very well. Not many bloggers will use Google properly to search for writing clients. You need to search with different keywords and various combinations of it. Google make things very easy when you want to look for anything. It is not humanly possible for anyone to search for their requirement in a specific website.
Some of the most used keywords while looking for writing clients include "guest blogger wanted", "freelance writer wanted", "article writer wanted", "quality writer wanted", "paid writer wanted". Google It now.
3. Get Referred By Other Blogger Friends
Why will anyone refer you when everyone is racing to get more and more work? It does not work this way. When I started blogging, the first thing which happened accidentally was to get in touch with other bloggers. We exchanged some emails, over Skype calls, and we got kind of friends. Perfect networking, I say.
Though my only intention to network with them was to learn some more about blogging and various areas which can be covered (I was zero in Blogging). After some days of being in good network with those bloggers, one of them emailed me to know my interest in writing for one of his clients. She was not able to take that assignment as she was over packed with work from other clients. She decided to passed it on to me, I happily took it, completed it with lot of nervousness (since it was my first paid assignment), and found that client was delighted with my work.
That ways I had one client in my kitty who could give me more work. A simple networking worked for me. Try it as it might work for you too.
4. Sell Yourself On Your Blog
I know that you have been working day and night to promote your blog/website. Some of you have already started getting good results after implementing some very important suggestions posted earlier on Make A Living Writing. Why not you use a special corner on your website to promote yourself. Convey to all your readers that they can hire you for any required services. When they know it, there are more chances to get hired. Isn't it?


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Keep Writing! Keep Making Money! 

Saturday, 22 June 2013

21 Most Inspirational And Biggest Benefits Of Blogging

There was a time when there was nothing called a 'Blog'. Today, there are thousands of them being created everyday. Some create it just because they want to see what happens after they click 'Create Blog', some create it just for fun, some do it for serious purpose, and so on.



As I would not want you to imagine the things which people consider while starting their blog, I have compiled a list of 21 most inspirational and biggest benefits of having a blog. Here they are:

1. Becoming Good Writer : Many of us start blogging without having good hand with writing (including me). After spending several months writing blog posts, the blogger actually finds himself becoming better and better in his writing.

2. Sharing Knowledge : I have seen people having a good specific knowledge which is not known to many people. Many bloggers create their blog for the purpose of sharing their knowledge. Cooking Blogs, Blogs on Expert advise, can be taken as an example for this.

3. Big Influence : With good content, you develop a good loyal base of readers. Once you have it, you have people who respect and follow you.

4. Becoming Expert : It may all start with a well known information, but not many people reach the level of expertise. Just by writing on 'Make A Living Writing' does not this blog a successful blog. I have to keep posting things which will be helpful for all of yous, plus will be something which you can find nowhere else. That's becoming an expert. Once you are an expert, you realize the benefits.

5. Networking : Believe it or not, network is something which we all wants to grow bigger and better. 

6. SEO Improvement : With good content, you improve the SEO for your blog.

7. Build Email Base : Almost all of us check the emails daily and that's what makes emails as the best option to communicate. Having a lot of readers and comments and loyal base, gives you access to a lot of email IDs. You can communicate your relevant things to your readers via email. Do not SPAM.

8. Knowledge Base : You may not be having enough knowledge on what you are writing your blog on, but being regular to what you are writing, you ultimately gain knowledge of your subject.

9. Sell Your Product : Create a virtual store or link on the side of your blog and get your sales.

10. Start A New Business : Your blog which was created just for fun may turn into a new business tomorrow. I personally know many bloggers who started blogging just for fun for few hours in a week, but they are now writing full time making it their business. They are making $1000-$5000 a month easily.

11. Champion Researcher : That's something I just realized. I have been blogging since last 5 years on various blogs and I can promise one thing for sure. Be it anything you want, I can get it researched for you. That's what blogging made me.

12. Increased Creativity : Imagine yourself eating same food everyday. Same thing happens with your readers when you post your blog with similar content or tone. Keep surprising your readers with something out of the box. Regular bloggers generate this benefit,.

13. Making Money Through Advertisement Revenue : Google Adsense, Clicksor, many more. You can see my old post on 36 Best Websites For Revenue Generation 

14. Social Sharing : Your website or Facebook Page or any other link will start getting more traffic if you have it linked to your popular blog.

15. Fame Game : Who will not like to become famous guy? If you are good at what you do, you can expect a big queue for your views always. People will start seeking advise and guidance from you.

16. Business Ventures : Do expect other business opportunities coming in for tie-up or merger or something even better.

17. Understand Your Readers : As you keep blogging and start tracking the comments, traffic sources, social shares, etc, you will understand what your readers are actually looking for (if you do not have it yet on your blog). Realizing that, you can keep them more engaged and loyal by giving them what they want.

18. Better Social Shares : If you have a fan page on Facebook or Twitter, then sharing quality content and links will definitely help you building better platforms on Facebook and Twitter, after all they are not there only for your stupid messages and personal photographs.

19. More And More Writing : The more you write, The more you write. Confusing? It is just like any other thing you are indulged in. If you will write a lot, you will actually end up writing more and more and will ultimately love it.

20. Inspire Others : People who have been following you, will definitely want to start something what you did. It will inspire many people to start posting quality content.

21. Satisfy Yourself : I write to satisfy myself. I always wanted to be more on a social side than on preaching side. That is the only reason why Make A Living Writing came into existence.



Though I have mentioned 21 Biggest Benefits of Blogging, I would still want to request each one of you to mention more. It can be anything, just post it in the comment.

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

31 Best (And Free) Places To Effectively Promote Your Website Or Blog or Link

One thing I am going to promise in the beginning of this post that every post in the Make A Living Writing Blog is going to change the way you look at WRITING. For best results, I would recommend you to have a look at every post on the blog and see what it can give you.



Each of us, who is having a website or a blog, is looking for more and more traffic. Getting traffic might be little easy because all it needs is some spam link and some stupid promotional strategies, but getting a good traffic takes some time. All of you who are reading this post is what I call a good visitor.

Today, I am going to share with you 31 free best places to effectively promote your website or blog. Here we go:

3. Digg
4. Reddit
7. DMOZ
10. Amfibi
15. So Much
18. Tagza
19. Diigo
22. Google
23. Bing
24. Yahoo
28. Buzzle


There are many more effective free websites in the genres of the websites mentioned above. I would have posted one thousand links here, but it will not do much good to you. I would request you to Google Search 'Websites like <website name>' and you will be having a good list in front of you. 

I know that it is not very easy to reach the places where you want to, but it is very much possible. I have started Make A Living Writing some three months back and have started getting quality readers including you. All matters is quality, not quantity.

My next blog will be having a huge list of 'Article Submission Websites', really huge. What are those websites going to do to your website or blog or link? I say, "Wonders".

Stay connected and I will help you create some real magic to your website.

Do BOOKMARK. Do COMMENT. Do FOLLOW. Do SHARE.

Happy Writing!

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

185 Free Blog Directories To Submit Your Blog/Website

Back with another useful post for all of you who have a blog or a website. What does submitting the link to Blog Directories do? In simple words, it will help you get more traffic.



Let's look at the below mentioned Blog Directories which are 100% Free. 
  1. Bloglines.com
  2. Boingboing.net
  3. Technorati.com
  4. Blogcatalog.com
  5. Bloggernity.com
  6. Blogs.com
  7. Globeofblogs.com
  8. Blogs.botw.com
  9. Blogdigger.com
  10. Bloggapedia.com
  11. Blogpulse.com
  12. Blogrankings.com
  13. Plazoo.com
  14. Redtram.com
  15. Weblogalot.com
  16. Bloghub.com
  17. Blogged.com
  18. Blogville.us
  19. Topblogarea.com
  20. Poweredbywp.com
  21. Highclassblogs.com
  22. Ontoplist.com
  23. Blogexplosion.com
  24. Blogskinny.com
  25. Blogadr.com
  26. Blogarama.com
  27. Blog-directory.org
  28. Blogflux.com
  29. Bloglisting.com
  30. Blogoriffic.com
  31. Sarthak.net
  32. Marketingscoop.com
  33. Bloghints.com
  34. Spillbean.com
  35. Anse.de
  36. Bloggernow.com
  37. Blogpunch.com
  38. Blog-search.com
  39. Blogsrating.com
  40. Blogtoplist.com
  41. Isblogs.com
  42. Search4blogs.com
  43. Blogsitelist.com
  44. Blogfinds.com
  45. Wilsdomain.com
  46. Addyourblog.com
  47. Blog-collector.com
  48. Theblogresource.com
  49. Blloggs.com
  50. Readablog.com
  51. Mykbt.com/bloggeries
  52. Portal.eatonweb.com
  53. Ontoplist.com
  54. Blogsearchengine.com
  55. Bloguniverse.com
  56. Biggerblogger.com
  57. Bloggernity.com
  58. Blogflux.com
  59. Bloggingfusion.com
  60. Bloglisting.net
  61. Blogio.net
  62. Blogdigger.com
  63. Blogpulse.com
  64. Bloghints.com
  65. Blogsitelist.com
  66. Topix.net
  67. Dir.blogflux.com
  68. Icerocket.com
  69. Worldpress.com
  70. Blogrunner.com
  71. Blogowogo.com
  72. Liquida.com
  73. Blogdirs.com
  74. Blogs-collection.com
  75. Jenett.org
  76. Buzzerhut.com
  77. Ceoexpress.com
  78. Regator.com
  79. Bloggerschoiceawards.com
  80. Theweblogreview.com
  81. Blogit.com
  82. Blogannounce.net
  83. Photarium.com
  84. Submitblognow.com
  85. Quickblogdirectory.com
  86. Thevital.net
  87. Blogratedirectory.com
  88. Yourwebloghere.com
  89. Blogdirectory.org.uk
  90. Blogdire.com
  91. Aveblogs.com
  92. Blogsrater.com
  93. Fuelmyblog.com
  94. Goblogz.com
  95. Mylot.com
  96. Topblogging.com
  97. Blogbal.com
  98. Eblogzilla.com
  99. Openblogdirectory.com
  100. Blogbunch.com
  101. Newzalert.com
  102. Blogfolders.com
  103. Blogpoint.com
  104. Bloggerhq.net
  105. Bloggerteam.com
  106. Ajdee.com
  107. Flookie.net
  108. Shoutyoursite.com
  109. Blogscollection.com
  110. Goblog4i.com
  111. Wutzle.com
  112. Boosterblog.net
  113. Urldigger.com
  114. Blogvillage.com
  115. Alotofblogs.com
  116. Blogdirectorysubmission.com
  117. Blogotion.com
  118. Blogpopular.com
  119. Blog.directory-seek.com
  120. wordpressblogdirectory.com
  121. Blogsitelist.com
  122. Irankblogs.com
  123. Allforblog.com
  124. Freewebs.com
  125. Humbug.com
  126. Dirdawn.com
  127. Dironline.com
  128. Medranks.com
  129. Web-dir.com
  130. Directorytribe.com
  131. Conseillemoi.net
  132. Blogshaven.com
  133. Blogsdb.com
  134. Bloggingdirectory.com
  135. Blogbits.com
  136. Listablog.com
  137. Link-blogs.blogs.com
  138. Spreadmyblog.com
  139. Blogification.com
  140. Blogbar.net
  141. B4blogs.com
  142. Directoryblogs.com
  143. Enquira.org
  144. Bloggercyber.com
  145. Bloggingsmostwanted.com
  146. Freshlinkmedia.net
  147. Ultimateblogdirectory.com
  148. Blogtory.com
  149. Greenstalk.com
  150. Blogicas.com
  151. Dakotablogs.com
  152. Blogswirl.com
  153. Blogdesam.com
  154. Geoblogdirectory.com
  155. Themillionblogs.com
  156. Weblogs.co.in
  157. Bloghitlist.com
  158. Problogdirectory.com
  159. Hottestblogs.com
  160. Blogirific.com
  161. Onsecrethunt.com
  162. Blogsready.com
  163. Creative-blogs.com
  164. Showmyblogs.com
  165. Bestblogs.org
  166. Bloggerinternet.com
  167. Heliosblogs.com
  168. Promobloglist.comm
  169. Aggregatedblogs.com
  170. Businesstalky.com
  171. Websites-blogs.com
  172. Global-blogs.info
  173. Totalblogdirectory.com
  174. Blogtagstic.com
  175. Abcblogdirectory.com
  176. Blogdumps.com
  177. Bloggerglobal.com
  178. Millionbloglist.com
  179. Splogspot.com
  180. Blogsexcellent.com
  181. Blog-collector.com
  182. Droool.net
  183. Bloggingtips.com
  184. Mynewblog.com
  185. Lisblogsource,net

These are some of the excellent Free Blog Directories where you can submit your blog/website and get good results. 

If you have come across any other Blog Directory, please post that in the comments below.

Do FOLLOW, Do BOOKMARK!

Monday, 25 March 2013

10 Things Which Will Make You A Stupid Blogger

As promised in the previous blog Things That Bloggers Need To Do To Make Money Blogging, I am posting those 10 things which will not make you a stupid beginner in blogging.



Let's get into business directly and see those things:

1. Copy Paste job : Blogging is not a copy paste job. I have seen several bloggers (so-called) who will just open an existing blog of their choice and copy paste the content into their own blog. That's what they call updating their blogs. Fellas! No matter how much happy you were while doing that, but that will never gonna earn you even a single penny. Take this seriously that you might even get blocked for doing this, or maybe something legal may come up for you. Copy pasting should be a big no-no.

2. Mighty Hits : Creating a blog and updating it with a nice original post is definitely a good start, but expecting some thousand viewers just after posting it is not practical. Blogging is not an overnight thing, it require time. Do not lose hope even if you are not getting enough views on your posts even after months. Many bloggers stop blogging looking at the initial results. Give it time and it will give you results.

3. Personal stuff's personal : No one (other than your close friends and relatives) have any interest or time to read your personal stuffs (until it gives some moral/message). Ignore posting what you did over weekend, whom do you like in your class, or other crap. Blogging has never been about you, it's about your readers. Make them a part of it than focusing it on you.

4. Promote, don't spam : There is a huge difference between promoting and spamming. Many of the new bloggers will start irritating people with messages over messages on the same thing. It is not bad to inform them of the new posts you have posted, but do not overdo it. Same thing applies while posting comments on other blogs and forums. You should not copy paste a same text to every place.

5. Misleading Blog Title : A perfect Blog Title matters a lot as that's the first thing which tells about your blog. If the title is interesting, people would want to go ahead and read the posts. Do not make it sound stupid and loose anyone who comes to visit your blog.

6. Publishing rarely : "Blogging is my passion, but I do not get much time for it". Are you kidding me? Those wanna be are nothing but time killing bloggers. Many bloggers have the same thoughts and they update their blog once in a month or maybe be in over more duration. That is not going to do anything for you, my dear. Get your ass off and start updating frequently.

7. Absent on social media : You may be using the best possible promotion technique but your loyal base starts with a social media profile. Having your presence on Facebook or Twitter increase your chances to be read by more people.

8. You got it small : You might be posting original post but it should not be too small. I have come across bloggers who just write couple of sentences for every post. Keep in mind that you are posting comments to other blogs, you are writing something for yourself. Your blog post should be at least 150-200 words in size. At the same time, ignore writing Research Paper kind of things as well.

9. Readers? lol : Your readers are very important for you. There are plenty of readers who would love to be loyal to you if you value them. Reply to the comments regularly and keep them engaged. Many bloggers end their blog post with a question for their readers, but never bother to read those comments and reply to you. I am sorry but you are being rude. If they need to read your content, you need them too. So behave!

10. Language sucks : You might be writing the best of the content, but if you are not proofreading your content, your readers are not going to like it. Make it a habit to proofread whatever you post as it does not take more than couple of minutes.

If you are spending couple of hours every week in Blogging, I am sure you are just not passing your time. It is always good to take care of thing which have been mentioned above as that will increase the worthiness of your blog.

If you have anything to add on the above ten points, feel free to post that in the comments.

Any questions? Any concerns? Ask it in the comments.

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