Welcome!
Intrinsic, is one of my favourite words, and words are what I am about. The use of words is highly important, and this is recognised throughout many industries including web design. Words are manipulated by punctuation to give different meanings. Consider the following example.
Woman: without her man, is nothing.
Woman: without her, man is nothing.
Same words, different punctuation, different meaning. If your site is not performing as you wanted it to, or perhaps you want copy that strikes the right tone with the right audience, or want web content to promote your brand, or to engage readers, then I can help. Do not struggle with your commas or your apostrophes, get in touch, and tell me want you need.
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If you are a writer to, or are freelancer of some kind, every week I share freelance writing tips on the site. Many of these tips are universal no matter what kind of freeelancer you are. I also share my experiences and provide updates as to what I am doing, what projects I am working on, and news in general about my writing endeavours.
Any opinions and feedback is welcome. Enjoy the read.
Badcuts news
Welcome folks. It's been a while since a news update and this is for a good reason- we've been busy. Link-optimise's redesign is complete and live! So far so good and it looks particularly impressive. The site has a good feel about it and the focus of it has changed. It is now geared towards helping people SEO thier own site as much as offering packages to SEO a website. We feel the balance is a good one, and we've had positive feedback so far. All good.
Playgameshavefun.com, is also going from strength to strength. The site is doing well on search engines, and is doing very well in the English speaking world, with the UK, USA, and Canada regularly reading the articles. I love it. We're hopefully launching our first video blog on the site soon.
The freelance writing is rolling forward to. There is still plenty of work and I have landed a few roles lately which were good ones to land. Sadly, I could be facing my first non-payment dilema, and it will be interesting to see how that turns out. I will keep you posted as to the result. As an
optimist, I feel that is the best course of action!
More news soon.
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A mad few months
Hi there, and happy new year.
As you have noticed there has not been a new post for a few months. This is due to the fact that over the last few months I have moved house, become busy with writing and decorating, and then, just to make it easy, Christmas. As a result, this blog and a few others, have not been updated as often as I would have liked to.
Now the chaos of moving, Christmas, and work has subsided to manageable levels, this blog and a few others should begin to take shape again.
So stay tuned, in what hopefully be a good new year for us all.
Read all about it, website news from Teahon…
Welcome friends and thanks for tuning in! OK, I know Chris Evans uses it to
open his radio programme, but I've always liked it and I've just written it down. It's tough at the top what can I say.
First, let me apologise for the lack of postings, it's been a busy few weeks with collapsing house moves, stressful yet fruitful redesign of Link-optimise, and the domain for playgameshavefun.com, finally up and running. Coupled with some serious writing work, which may see me turn a corner in my quest to become a full-time freelance writer, and all this results in not much time to update my personal space. A tragedy I'm sure you'll agree. Never fear, tissues are at hand, and as you can see, I've taken time out of my busy schedule to update you, because like L'oreal beauty products, you deserve it.
Link-optimise's redesign is looking inspired. Phil's idea of creating one SEO site that branches in two directions is really taking fruition. The colours, the robot, and dare I say my contribution - the copy, are like its predecessor, really taking shape. The difference being, that the site has a clearer direction, and a much refined and easier to understand packages section. This was the real weak point with Link-optimise's first site.
The resources have also taken shape, with clearer headings and better navigation. Phil's designs go from strength to strength.
Playgameshavefun.com, is just really a URL. I'm planning to upload some articles to it soon. This will will hopefully be up and running with a cool design by December. Like, link-optimise, we have high hopes for this site.
Writing wise, I have two new clients, and an old one has just commissioned me to write 20 articles for a new site. I am beginning to wonder if I should do this full-time. All decisions of that type though will be made after Christmas.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for tuning in.
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Spreading the word, tips for better blog promotion.
Once you have written a blog post you particularly like, it is essential that you spread the word of your blog by every means necessary. The predominant force in blog promotion is social media, but dropping a link here and there in other web mediums is advisable to. Once criticism people have of blog promotion via social media, is that it takes "too much time." The trick here is to link as many social media sites together as possible. This will save a lot of time, as a few posts can cover many social networking accounts.
For example, you can connect Facebook to Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and many others. Twitter is also linkable to many other sites to. So once you complete a post in Facebook, all the sites that are linked to Facebook automatically spread the word. It is as simple as that.
If you are unsure about which sites you should sign up for, I would recommend the following. It has to be said though, that any social networking site is worth joining, even if you do not visit them much yourself.
Digg
Delicious
Technorati
Mybloglog
These are not just ways to bring direct attention to your blog, but they also count well for back links, which gives you an SEO bonus to.
Word of mouth is ok, but you never really know if your friends read it because they like you. Or even if they just tell you they do. Feel free to test them for amusement.
Spreading the word is essential for blogging. You could be the next Shakespeare, but no one will know because nobody reads your work. So don't write a lonely blog, spread the word, and enjoy your results. You deserve it.
In the future, I will be experimenting further with linking social media, and how far one post will travel. I will keep you informed.
If you have any thoughts about blog promotion, why not share them?
Freelance writing tips for better web content
I read an interesting article about writing for the web last night, and what I found most interesting was that really the article was in the main, about grammar. The web writing tips were quite few and far between. Here then, is a few of the standard tips for writing for the web.
- Keep sentences and paragraphs short for scan reading
- Ensure accurate spelling and grammar
- Write for your audience and use appropriate language and sentence structure
- Keep content relevant, and succinct
This is all well and good, but these are only guidelines. The bottom line is that if you are writing for a client, and they want in depth descriptions of this that and the other, and that is how you should write the piece. Interestingly, I have recently submitted two articles for consideration with a writing company, who have rejected my application. In hindsight, I feel my article choices were good, just not quite as in depth as they would have liked. Sadly, I have articles I could have submitted which were more to their tastes.
I feel if there is an underlying principle of writing for the web it is this: Give the writing a smooth, flowing style, and it will be far easier for people to read it! Fundamentally, is there anything more important?
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Teahon Freelance writer
This curious title is not me taking an ego trip but purely for SEO purposes. The hope is that Google will link anchor text in my website, "Teahon", "Freelance writer", and simply put two and two together, and make me climb the page ranks for searches under "Freelance writer". There is another reason for this post, and that is to knock down the technoratti tracking code at the top of the page. How embarrassing! Had to be done though, its all part of spreading the freelance writing word.
Copywriting seems to be in demand at the moment, and with a little luck I have landed a job from freelancer.co.uk. This will hopefully lead on to other work with the same orgnaisation. In the first instance, I shall be writing about team building.
Chris Satchwell of Digitpedia fame, liked most of my suggestions for "How To" guides, so that gives me good scope for at least another six articles or so. With the run up to Christmas, I am hoping he will need more of them.
Cowinkidink are still getting articles from me at a rate of two a week. They feel they are closer to launching and the screenshot I have seen is very clean, web 2.0, kind of look. Hopefully, the site will launch this year and earn yours truly a bit of cash.
That was the week that was for Teahon Freelance writer.
The amazing adventures of Teahon.co.uk/wordpress
Over the last few days I have discovered the beauty of plugins and sidebars. After a little experimentation I have managed to link this blog with Google Analytics, and webmaster tools. Make it more SEO friendly, and worked out a few work around to use pages more effectively. I have also managed to put ads on the site, apologies if they are a little in your face at the moment, I am working on it.
Also, the widget bar has been used more effectively, with social networking profiles on display along with link-optimise blog posts on the site to. All very clever. Apart from a little mishap that happened after I upgraded the theme to the to a more advanced version of Wordpress that I use, all has gone remarkably well. It is quite amazing how easy it is to add and take away plugins that either do not work, or are actually of very little use.
The site too, has increased up the search engine ranks, it now sits at page 22 on Google pages for the UK. This is either down to the Link-campaign, the activity on the site, or the Platinum SEO plugin, or indeed all three. Either way, it is very good news for me and the site.
Writing wise, everything is ticking over, and it feels good to invest in this blog once again, now the SEO one is up and running.
Short stories
These pages contain my efforts at short story writing. Though I have written several contemporary pieces of fiction, of late I have been writing several superhero stories based around Paragon City's MMORPG, City of Heroes. All feedback welcome, and if you have any stories you would like me to read on your blog, let me know and I will give you an honest, constructive opinion.
Hope you like what you see.
Superhero stories inspired by Plaync's City of Heroes
The Blackmark Trilogy
The Blackmark Trilogy
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