SEO Copy Writer

I decided to tweak the Viral Sales Generator a little bit and took it over to my SEO Writing website. My SEO Writing website was ranking in the top ten in Google for it’s keywords, but disappeared in the last Google update.

I know they saw it as supplimental because I had already built WildWolfas my primary writing business site. Since it was live first, it becomes primary now and any text borrowed from it will be seen as supplimental.

Are you guys aware of the whole Supplimental thing Google is doing? Let me know, I can post more about it if you want.

So, what I’ve done now is to require that people who want to get more information from me or work with me as their SEO Writer, are now required to join for FREE my SEO Writing membership site.

The reasoning behind this is that I get a lot of people emailing me personally asking SEO related questions. I answer them, and then that’s the last I ever hear of them. I also get a lot of people coming to my website and reading all the good content, then leaving. So, it’s great that I’m there for them, but not so great for me when they go off with the education I’ve given them to hire some guy in another country because he’s cheaper … and might I add, you get what you pay for!

In an effort to make this a win-win for both parties. I now require a join into my membership site. It’s free, there’s no hidden text anywhere, no hidden charges. All I want from the exchange is the permission to make more contact my memberhsip, by opting-in I get that legal obligation met.

In addition, I’m also now charging a very small fee for an initial half hour consultation. If they decide to hire me to write for them, then I will apply the fee to their contract. If they decide not to hire me, then I will keep the fee for my services on the consultation.

Why am I charging for consultation when so many others are giving it away for free? Because I find that when both parties have a vested fianacial interest in a thing, they both take it more seriously. Hence, a win-win solution. I only want to work with serious clients.

So, the SEO Writing membership site allows members to join, and then order from three different types of initial consultations. In the future, I will be adding to the list of services and products offered as well.

In addition, I offer free downloads on topics of related interest for members and I will be adding to that offering with free and paid downloads.

I’ve also added an SEO forum for members only. Members will be allowed to talk about their SEO needs and network themselves a little bit. Shameless self-promotion will be deleted and the member who does it will be banned … so spammers, don’t bother.

If you’re intersted in participating in the new SEO Writing Membership, then please join.

              

A new report by Elise Ackerman of the Mercury News, is asking the questions that the search engine companies don’t want to answer. Ackerman is pushing the four search giants (Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN) to answer questions about the true extent of your privacy with regards to the volumes of information they track about you.

You know every computer has a unique identifing number (IP) and everytime you log in and do a search, they know exactly who you are and follow your search trends. They then market to those trends, but that not the worst of it.

According to Ackerman, the search logs reveal intimate details about your search habits. For example:

A few weeks after the Mercury News made its request to the companies, AOL published the searches of about 658,000 AOL users on a public Web site as part of an effort to share data with researchers. The searches, which were done from March to May, provided an incredibly intimate glimpse into the lives of the searchers.

On March 1, AOL User 310416 looked for “how to self induce your own labor.'’ A few days later the user searched on “true contractions,'’ then did an “inmate search,'’ which led to the Illinois Department of Corrections. Later in the month, the user searched for “bedbugs'’ and “matress sets in illinois.'’

What this means is the Big Brother most certainly is watching and will prosecute offenders. It doesn’t mean that every search will lead to an investigation, but use some common sense and stay with in the legal guidelines of the laws.

Three Ways You Can Be Tracked Online

IP ADDRESS
Each time you access the Internet, you are assigned a string of numbers identifying your machine. The numbers are kept from 30 days to seven years.

REGISTRATION
You create an account with a log-on and a password. When you log on, companies can also cross-reference cookies and IP addresses with your account.

COOKIE
A string of characters is saved on your computer’s hard drive so that a Web site can identify you, via your browser, each time you return to the site.