When you're working in a brick and mortar business, you will likely earn promotions and move up through the ranks and earn more money along with each promotion. But, as a freelancer, there is no one there to promote you...
Freelancing makes me feel empowered. Before getting into freelance writing, I was a struggling affiliate. Once I found the online freelancing world, I was able to achieve my personal and financial goals easily by sel...
My biggest issue with backlinking is knowing how to make them look natural or keep them from appearing too obvious. Please share your best techniques for creating natural looking backlinks (including quantity, quality, ...
Do you have memories of the first time you ever conducted research, either in a library or online? What was the subject you were researching and what did you use the research material in, such as a book, article, schoo...
Our local library has a really amazing reference section for all kinds of things from health and medical issues to historical events. And, I love going there to browse through the editions. When I find some information...
On some pages that I visit, there is a useful little description like this: This Page is automatically generated based on what Facebook users are interested in, and not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated ...
As a freelancer with SEOClerks, some of my best selling SEOClerks services are for forum posting. This is one of my favorite types of freelance work, other than writing articles and I'm very happy to provide these servic...
I would like a subforum where people could submit their website and ask for critique, review and suggestions for ways to improve the site. This would not be specifically for the domain name, so it's not a domain apprais...
When you have a 'real world' job, you are required to show up at work or risk losing employment. And, sometimes that's true even if you are sick. When you work at home you can actually take a sick day without fear. H...
On many occasions, I will get a good name for a domain but not really know what to use the domain for. Maybe the domain will be niche related but actually investing time to develop that type of site would take so much mo...
I love watching Netflix online, though they require a subscription monthly. The site has so many good movies and TV shows and I'm never bored. Another good place to watch TV shows or movies online is Hulu. Though the ...
Everyone knows how to get backlinks from various sites. But, many of the ways we all learned to backlink are now considered wrong by google and if you get too many backlinks from sites, even ones that might be related, ...
What would it take to create your own blogging software/plaform, similar to Blogger or Wordpress? Is this even possible?
Currently, I'm managing three active blogs but over time have created dozens, mostly niche blogs. I like the blogging experience as it allows me to express my writing creativity in my own space, not dictated by others. ...
What type of information or links do you include on your 404, custom error page?
Sometimes, I'll go back after creating a forum response and edit a few times, especially if the response seems off topic to what was being discussed. It's easy enough to get caught up in a side line discussion with ano...
On the forum profile, are such details as Skype contact or Yahoo messenger details, public to all users, general public or just people who are following you on the forum? I'm a very private person and if there is a chan...
One of my favorite things to do is create blog drafts of potential blog posts. This gives me time to flesh out the article and make it really good and also I can schedule a good time for publishing the article on my own...
Do you like going to these big shopping sites and seeing advertisements all over the side bar? Is it good to promote another person's products in the ads, if you are a shopping retail site?
When researching an article, Hubpage or blog post, how much time do you spend researching the subject? Do you read several sources and then cobble together an original article of your own words? What is your best resea...
One of my favorite SEOClerks jobs involves working on a Japanese culture forum. Occasionally, the forum owner orders forum posting services from me and it's always fun to post there as I get to learn so much. Other tha...
As a freelancer, it helps to be highly disciplined, sticking with one task until it's done, rather than jumping around on ten different projects or slacking off when work needs to be done. And, it's easy to get distract...
Is it really smart to let a moderator or admin who owns a competing forum to work on your site? Could there be a conflict of interest? What are the downsides or benefits of doing this?
A hello post is one where the new forum member posts an introduction to the community. And, a goodbye post is one where they say goodbye when they are planning to leave. Though hello or introductory posts are common, the...
What are some of the reasons you would want to hire a full or part time employee for your company, rather than hiring a freelancer? And, in what situations would a freelancer work out better than a full/part time empl...
There are some really interesting Want to Buy listings on the WTB section of SEOClerks. But, the ones in my own niche seem limited, or the pay is not in keeping with the amount of work required, such as buyers who want ...
Some days, I feel very physically tired so it's difficult to feel motivated to care for one or more of my own personal sites, such as to make new posts or improvements. Also, there is a time crunch as I'm responsible fo...
I'm a forum owner and forum admin/mod on several forums and for me, the experience is very different. With my own forum, there are a million little details I have to manage by myself (I like to be hands on, even when I ...
Managing one forum is nearly a full time job, but some people own multiple forums, requiring good time management skills as well as resources. Do you think you have what it takes to manage more than one forum at a time?
Are there any tricks or tips to creating a warm and welcoming environment on your forum that encourages forum members to stay and post or interact with the community more?
I would love to have a personal virtual assistant, or someone who can manage little details of my virtual business, such as creating blog posts, reminding me of important events or any of a dozen little things. This per...
What site would you suggest for creating a freelancer website, such as one which will contain links to your references/portfolio site, etc? For instance, do you think it's good enough just to put this on Blogger?
At one time, Matt Cutts, mentioned the site, Boing Boing as being high quality. The site is human edited and curated featuring a number of carefully hand picked original stories from around the web. This is not the pla...
When selecting a service to buy on SEOClerks, will you always choose the one that is the cheapest? Or, do you factor in other things such as the seller's user level; previous recommendations/reviews; response time, etc?
Flood control is a method by which you can control the frequency or rate at which a forum member posts on your forum. So for instance, you might only allow one post per minute. And, if the person tries to post more th...
I like it when post count shows under the avatar, rather than on the pop up box. And, this varies by forum, even on Xenforo. What's your preference?
I love being a forum owner. It's one of the best things I've ever done and though not the easiest job, it lets me have something fun to look forward to daily. I like talking to people and interacting with the forum com...
Can you build a really solid forum community in just the first few weeks a site is open? For instance, maybe if you had access to friends in a former related niche forum who could help you post to the site and get thing...
Once I was part of this really cool general chat style forum. I liked the forum owner a lot and we became good friends. I posted there a good long while. Eventually, work got in the way and I stopped visiting the forum. ...
I have at least fifty forum accounts, spread around the internet. Most are from the old gamer days, but a few are related to internet marketing, blogging and forum ownership. And, that's just for my owner personal acco...
