Saturday Afternoon Link Love
December 22, 2007 by Deb
Filed under Freelance Writing
As my holiday gift to you, I’d love to feature your blog in my year end link love post. Please send your details to deborahng(at)gmail(dot)com.
Here’s a little holiday weekend link love to keep you busy when you’re not out giving tidings of comfort and cheer.
- 57% of professionals consider work-life balance as a goal for the new year at 901AM
- Respect in blogging at the Blog Herald. .
- More teens are creating online content at Stephen’s Lighthouse.
- The Ng family Christmas tree at Simply Thrifty. And while you’re there check out my recipes for zucchini bread and mocha nut balls.
- Chris Garrett talks about innovation vs. charisma.
- Tris Hussey is back with b5Media at Center Networks.
- Fun with the dumbest moments in business at Copywriter Underground.
- Use Your Blog to Land Paid Writing Gigs at Daily Blog Tips.
- Go ahead, put that preposition on the end at Daily Writing Tips.
- Write this guy’s term paper for $100 at the Craigslist Curmudgeon
- The cost of procrastinating at eMoms at Home.
- How to cultivate mad-hot creative flow, love what you do and double your fees at Freelance Switch.
- Are creative commons licenses confusing? Plagiarism Today.
- Plan your new year’s budget goals at the Social Networking Weblog.
- Keep Your Content Neural at Web Content Writing Tips.
- 2007 Writer/Editing average salaries at Writer’s Resource Center.
- On foggy writing at Writing for the Web.
.My best to you and yours!
Deb
Please visit my other blogs:
- Simply Thrifty
- She Plays Music
- Celebrity Cowboy
- Celebrity Role Model
- 7 Babes a Blogging
- Performancing
and coming soon…Cookerati a food blogging community where all proceeds are donated to charity.
*Ahem* While neural content is pretty cool stuff, neutral comment – what we wanted you to consider when you wrote – is even better.
Deb,
Like you I have a real problem with people who seek a writer for their term paper/thesis/other school/university related work.
It is completely unethical and illegal.
These people fail to realise that they’re just making their future working life harder for themselves rather than trying to improve their prospects of gaining employment based on a grade card of straight As.
If they do get a job based on their grades they will quickly realise that they cannot perform it to the best of their abilities, an issue that the employer will quickly realise too.
Writers should not take on projects of this nature for many reasons.
Besides, who is going to look kindly upon a bunch of term papers in one’s portfolio??
Sarah,
As one who did his own termpapers on a manual typewriter, I strongly echo your comments.
Curmudgeon time (ignore if your threshold is rather low for this sort of thing)
I’m afraid I don’t understand why anyone would request a link from someone else. Isn’t a link an endorsement? Yes, I know all about pagerank and have personally achieved a 7 for a client, but if you’re running a blog why on earth do you run it according to google’s rules?
None of this makes any sense to me at all. I can’t help but think that the world has sold itself out rather cheaply. There’s no place at all for honest, heartfelt endorsement anymore.
I refuse to play other people’s games.
End of curmudgeon rant.
@ Eric – Google and PR is one thing, but linking out achieves other goals.
One, it leaves a notification in people’s blogs. We all rush over to see what Deb wrote about us and to thank her for having read and supported our blog. She’s directing people to our blog, which is a very nice thing to do. She doesn’t have to, you know. Her blog is certainly a good one.
By linking out, you let other blogs know that you wrote about them. They may not be familiar with your blog. When they come over, they just might stay and become a faithful reader. Quite nice, that.
Three, it lets readers of the blog know about very interesting posts found elsewhere. Maybe Deb wanted to write on these subjects but we beat her to it. Maybe she just likes the post and wants her readers to read.
Plus, each time Deb links to others, those others just love her that much more. She gains popularity as a nice person
It isn’t about Google. It’s about making friends in the blogosphere, attracting readers, pointing readers to good content, and being a nice person.
Hi Erik,
Between 2500 and 3000 people visit this blog every day. I can’t bake cookies for everyone nor can I shop for gifts so I have find other ways to say thank you.
By linking to other blogs I five the gift of traffic. Hopefully repeat traffic. I also hope to turn you on to some pretty cool stuff. Really that’s all I’m trying to do, share with my readers and turn you on to some cool stuff.
Do you know how FWJ started? I was in a Yahoo group with several other work at home writing moms. As I trolled for work every day, I’d come across links I felt were perfect for some of the other moms and I’d send them their way. My emails to my friends became a blog. I’m still sharing links and jobs with my friends, I just have a few more of them now.
I hope that explains it. I really don’t have ulterior motives. I do get lots of complaints about the ads on this blog, but without them it wouldn’t exist.
Whoa I typed that fast. Please overlook all my typos!
Phil,
Whoa! Well I handwrote (if that is a word!) mine.
On the other end of the moral scale, I’ve decided to get into copywriting for the non-profit/charity market.
It’s my way of helping. My thinking is if I’m not going to win the lottery and donate most of it to charity, I can at least use my writing skills to help non profits and charities get the funding they need.
Not plugging myself, but I think people should feel good about what they do for a living.
Deb,
I’m a fairly new blogger, a retired teacher turning to freelance writing, and I’m learning so much from all of you early adopters. I love the idea of love links and some day soon will will ask your permission to use this term (of course always citing you as the source)on my blog.
BTY did you know the link for Social Neworking Weblog goes to the plagiarism site?
Thanks for leading the way with TONS of useful information for a newbie.
ph
Thank you so very much! I am grateful I found your blog through your guest post on ProBlogger. I’m excited to read through your posts! Happy New Year!