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Earn money as a freelance link builder
2008-02-20 15:55:00
It is probably apparent to most of us by now that link building is an essential part of improving your search engine position and consequently the traffic search engines send to a site. There are numerous free link building techniques but one of the most beneficial is link exchanges. You find sites that are relevant to your site's theme/subject and exchange links with them. Those links have the potential of sending targeted traffic but are also valued by the search engines (including Google) more than other links because of their relevancy factor.Link exchanges are time consuming.A successful link exchange includes finding a relevant site to your theme making the necessary contact with the site's owner or webmaster (usually via email) and communicating the willingness for an exchange and then placing the actual link and making sure that the relevant site places a link to your site. Not all contacts result in link exchanges because not all site owners understand or care for the...
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TNX.net text link ads
2008-01-04 10:57:00
TNX is a new text link ads broker/network that has been gaining momentum lately. On the surface it looks like most of the text link systems but deep inside its quite different.Any website owner with at least some pages with higher PR than 0 can register as a publisher. Upon registering you should include the TNX code into your site's template and let the system crawl your pages (which could take up to a week) and then you are ready to sell text links. TNX does not serve sitewide links. Instead each page can have up to 4 unique links from advertisers.Advantages over other similar systemsIndividual page links are sold and this means more money for the publisher and greater text link benefit for the advertiser.The advertisers select pages based on their theme/subject and value of PR and not based on the actual URL. The system does not allow the advertisers to know the actual site that their links are placed on and this helps prevent fraud (i.e. google paid links reporting etc)The ...
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GamerClix ads review
2008-01-04 10:33:00
I have been experimenting lately with different sources of revenue for my online games site and I have come to install the GamerClix ads above each individual game (i.e. above pac man).The system is very flexible and easy in setting up and running. Anyone who has used adsense in the past would find it a breeze to work with. You can use the system's "code wizard" to choose from a variety of standard industry ad formats and change the colors to match your site style and end up with the javascript code that you can "copy and paste" into your html template. This makes it a perfect candidate for an adsense alternative but, not quite. GamerClix is still in its infancy. Not too many advertisers have signed up and as a consequence the same ads are shown over and over. On top of that I have experienced that the few clicks that my ads received have resulted in no revenue which is quite puzzling but, its only been a week that the ads are running so I am willing to give it one more week...
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Make money selling text link ads
2007-12-27 01:44:00
The reason why people buy links should be obvious by now to most of you. As a summary some buy links for the traffic it can bring to their site, some buy to increase their PageRank and some buy to make google see them associated with a frequently searched query phrase. If you want to read more on this please visit my post on selling links.Some people that have been around for some time might have noticed the recent crackdown by Google on paid link publishers and advertisers. The internet community has divided itself in two camps because of this, one that is welcoming such actions from google and the other one that is calling them hypocrites. I am not here to point fingers at neither camp. The truth of the matter remains that links are still being sold and bought but not out in the open anymore.If you have a site that has either good traffic or a nice PR then you can certainly find link buyers for it.Depending on the traffic on your site, your PR or the theme (niche) of your sit...
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Bloggers/Writers: get $$ for guest blogging
2007-12-22 20:31:00
I am looking for guest bloggers for this money making blog as well as my web design blogWhy do I need guest bloggers ?I don't have time to post very often since I only post unique articles (not copy and paste)How will this work ?Be a webmaster, designer, SEOer (other related field worker), or have ideas on how to make money on the internetsend me unique article(s) that can fit well in geoland.org or here (There is no real guidelines other than being original and yourself and your articles are inline with the rest of the blog's)if you get 2 or more articles posted in a month I will pay you $10/per article minimum. I can probably give more if they are exceptional articles. The monthly period is not a strict requirement either.As added bonues you also getmy friendship (priceless ;-) )2 permanent links to your blog on every article that you write,get exposed to my regular audience 50-100 uniques a day on each blogThe articles have to be unique and thoughtful, please don't waste my t...
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Real People make Real money on the internet
2007-12-13 03:31:00
Jim Westergren is a well respected SEO professional in the DP forums. He is also known for running his company seo-fusion.com which apparently was sold recently for $157,700. We had a chance to chat with him about SEO, seo-fusion, the sale, the future, and Jim as a person. Here is what he had to say:-Jim when and where were you born ?1982, Malmö Sweden- any studies ?Until age of 17, then I left school to do more important things in my opinion- any other work experience (other than seo-fusion) ?From age 17 to 22 I worked in an international organisation in Denmark. It was very tough but I learned a lot. I learned for example that you are yourself responsible for everything that happens in your life and that you are totally capable of doing anything, it is all in the mind.- when did you discover the internet ? what did you use it for ?1997 or something I guess. At that time it was mostly used for school to find information. I made my first web site in 1999. Then from end of 1999 to...
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Make money with Auctions: site review
2007-12-08 04:43:00
I have always wanted to learn the ins and outs of people making money with auctions. I have been hearing stories every so often about ebay and how people are always selling and buying stuff there but I never had the time to learn about it.According to successwithauctions.com that promises to teach you how to make money online for free the idea is simplebuy low, sell high and take the difference to supplement your income...Think of it like having a neighborhood yards sale, you can sell old items that are just laying around the house or forgotten about in your attic. You can find unused items from your neighbors and friends, or buy a product online for cheapEbay alone has grossed $44.3 billion in sold merchandise last year. Other sites that can handle public auctions for their users are Half.com, uBid.com, ShopGoodWill.com but there are others.What do you need to start making money with Auctions ?A credit card, debit card, or other pre-paid cardComputer with internet accessProduct ...
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Make money writing and distributing articles
2007-12-02 19:02:00
Webmasters need backlinksOne of the ways webmasters can get one way backlinks to their websites is through article distribution. There are on the internet lots of websites that would hold articles written by different kind of authors and are usually called article directories. These authors give their articles for free distribution in exchange for the recognition and 1-2 backlinks to their website which is usually put in their Bio box at the end of each article.Most webmasters are not good at copywritingThe article directories in order to include the articles, require that the articles have some proper syntax and should be nicely written. Most webmasters are not famous for their writing skills hence the need for copywriters for article writing. The better an article that you can write the easier is to be accepted in the article directories. Thus if you are a freelance writer and you can't seem to land any gigs in any of the "find a freelancer" places you can try posting at the...
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My Hosting misfortunes
2007-11-28 09:22:00
This blog is still hosted by blogger.com and I can't complain since I am not paying a dime for it. Apart from this website I have a bunch of other sites (client sites mostly) that need some paid hosting. In the last 2 months I was forced to change 3 hosts and my experience I am going to explain here. I am not going to get much into the details (not any technicalities) of what exactly went wrong but I do want to point out wrongful attitudes in their part, since I was very surprised myself (when I found out).doorhost.netI think this is a one man show, a reseller of ihsystem.com systems it seems. I have been hosting with this company since 2003 but back then the reseller account belonged to some other person. The support was always very responsive trying to find out what has gone wrong and all was solved within a matter of hours at most. Some time in the beginning of the year I think, the ownership changed and the hosting experience has turned bad since that time. I noticed t...
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How to make money online ?
2007-11-14 01:32:00
Looking at my stats today (that I had not looked for some time) I noticed that for the last 20 days quite a few people visited this very blog looking for how to make money online. This site can be found on the second page of google results for the query in question so it was no surprise. It was no surprise either that most of them left immediatelly (bounced back). People are looking for a magic formula to make money online it seems !!!The title of this website reveals that this site is NOT about making big loads of money in any short period of time even though you could but, I am not promising it. I am just presenting ideas on how I have managed to generate some revenue and ways to improve on those ideas. I personally have managed to make enough part time money from my ventures to keep me going ... the forecasted revenues are also good so that is giving an extra boost to my endeavour...To those that are looking on how to make money online I would summarize my thoughts as foll...
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Make money with domains
2007-10-29 02:20:00
Domains cost anywhere from $1.99 to $30.00 per year (most domains, .com, .net ...) when bought from a domain name registry ... some domains though have privately (or through auctions) sold for much more than their owners have paid for them !? For the record I am just stating that sex.com was sold for $14Million. why is that ? because not all domains are created equal ... .com .net .org .biz and a few others are easier to remember and more "valuable" to have ... some vocabulary words are also easy to remember and are also "valuable" ...I am not really an expert to talk about what is valuable and what is not, take a look at what sells and at what prices on domain name journal or find lots of more information on the namepros forums.Here is my take on domain names and the business of buying and selling.Lets say you wanted to the same: buy some great domains in the hopes of selling them for great price later.The idea is simple. Buy a domain and put it for sale at one of the auctions (s...
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Looking for guest bloggers
2007-10-13 01:11:00
The time spend in writing articles on this blog is becoming very scarce lately thus the need to call for anyone interested in guest blogging once in a while ... and I do need a fresh voice in this blog ...Only requirements are: Be someone who is related to the field of making money online and be able to write original stuff and not just copy and paste from other sites and be inline with the rest of the material in here ...If you think you have this just:- Post or PM me some original work that you have done- and/or send me the article that you want to be included,Why would you want to guest blog here ?1. Can be my friend (priceless )2. You will get 2 permanent links at the end of each and every article that you write,3. site might be PR5 soon4. Can actually pay a bit of money if you become a regular poster ($$)5. get exposed to my regular audienceHope I covered everything that needs to be said, but if you have more questions please post them here.
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LAZYSEO.com: Automatic Directory Submission That Works!
2007-10-04 01:04:00
Another scam !!Well this is not exactly a scam but a case of a service that does not deserve the price of $19.95/month that it sells for; it does not even deserve 1penny if you ask me ...The person behind the service though is a big scum ... let me explain.I first encountered that service in may of 2007 on the v7 forums and it sounded like an interesting deal. I would pay $20 a month and then I would automatically submit all my sites and my client's sites to more than 300 directories with a push of a button. This part is true; you can actually submit as many sites to all the directories included. The problem lies in the fact that the service does not have very detailed categories for the user to choose from ... it only has top level categories and very few secondary/sub categories. Minor problem you might say but, apparently it was not minor at all. If you ever submitted to any directory you would know that the top most reason submissions get rejected is submitting in the wron...
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Directory submission service scam
2007-10-02 00:07:00
Sometimes I don't have the time to do my own submissions but this time I was just lured by the fact that 1500 submissions to free directories would only cost me $20 ; This $20 would save me lots of time so I could focus on other stuff that I had neglected recently ... the deal was spotted on DP and there was no way I would miss it. The storyThe thread was created by TheZer0Group and was new (5-10 posts), so I thought to myself that the guy is a new kid on the block so he is offering this nice deal in order to get some customers that will leave a good comment on the thread. So without wasting any time I send the money and the details of my submission. The thread started to gather some questions from potential buyers but the answers coming to think about it did seem professional answers but I did not suspect anything at the time.The story continues with one day passing and no sign of any submission emails from any free directory. I usually setup email filters on gmail for eac...
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DirectoryCritic an excellent service
2007-09-28 19:21:00
Directory Critic is a website where one can find free and paid web directories rated by people who have submitted to them so anyone can take advantage and submit their own websites to the best directories (or directory submission services could use them to build their lists)Why should we care ?I was browsing on one of my favorite webmasters forums lately and I noticed a thread that was advertising an 8000 free directory list giveaway. Since its free I thought I might as well give it a try. The number of the directories was by itself a big plus (8000). When I finally imported the list to my favorite submission program I discovers that withing the first 120 "entries" I tried to submit only 10 where really directories, most had vanished, other had changed to paid only, and others had become adult content sites. Not only that, but the ones I finally managed to submit did not send an email confirming the submission ...Today I had the urge to submit to a few more directories but I wou...
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Creating a game site, things to avoid
2007-09-20 10:39:00
Its almost 4 complete months ever since I launched Game s Online 4 Free and lots of people have asked me how is it going ... so I figured an update was worth it. Well this post is not really an update but some things new game site owner should pay attention to.Look for the latest version of the script that you are using, avoid hackers, I learned the hard way.I installed the AVarcade as was mention on the original post but soon I was attacked by some annoying hackers due to some bugs in the code. The site would be attacked 5-6 times a day and it would be unusable for hours until I took notice. I used a temporary solution to deprive privileges from the database user so anyone getting admin rights on the script would not have update or delete privileges on the database. When the update to the script came out and I patched the code I reverted the privileges back to normal.Make sure the gamepacks you installed don't have any objectionable games in them.I've had google warn me that if...
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Make money paypal ?
2007-09-20 09:52:00
Lately there has been lots of searches for make money paypal that end up here on this blog. Google send me this traffic probably due to an earlier post warning to paypal users.Those visits got me thinking nevertheless ... how can you make money with paypal ? (assuming that is what people where searching for).You can't!!! Paypal is just a way to send or receive money. Paypal of course makes money with every transaction but we can't unless of course its a scam.Search the internet for paypal scam and related phrases and quickly found this post and this having people claim to be making thousands of dollars in a very simple way.The scam goes like this:The scummer gives you a few paypal emails that you send a few buck$ to.You put your paypal email at the end of the list and you drop the first .You post that message to as many places as you can and try to convince others to send money to that list ...So not only this is a scam, and the initiators would get some $$ in their paypal acc...
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Want to earn $190 cash + $500 in bonuses
2007-08-03 07:31:00
I just stumbled on this forum that it just started a competition that gives $699 in prizes to one lucky winner. What the winner has to do is just post as many relevant posts on the forum. Spam is not accepted only relevant thought out conversations are ...How does it work?Every time you post you get $0.02 and every time you start a thread you get $0.05. On top of that for each referral to the forum you get another $0.05. The winner will be the one with the most money in their account at the end of this August; There is only one big winner that will get the prize but all other users get to keep the money they generate and withdraw it to their paypal account as soon as they reach the $10 payout limit ....If you want more information check out the details of the competition.The competition started in the begging of August and will last until the 31st of August, so if you are sitting around doing nothing you can give it a try .... register here
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Quick reminder to unsuspected Paypal users
2007-07-11 10:06:00
I have been receiving these emails lately once a day it seems.Take a look at two of them:Security Center Military Grade Encryption is Only the StartAt PayPal, we want to increase your security and comfort level with every transaction. From our Buyer and Seller Protection Policies to our Verification and Reputation systems, we'll help to keep you safe.PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employssome of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement access to your account will be limited. This is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not compromised.In order to secure your account we may require some specific information from you. We encourag...
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Get a free PR4 link
2007-06-19 21:28:00
I just discovered the next milliondollarhomepage.com ?Nah just kidding! But for all of us that have always wanted to put a pixel ad on MDHP we can settle for a pixel ad on pixel ad site.Why would you want to put your link there ?Its a free linkit only takes a minuteCan actually change the image or the link or the title at any timeyou a get a PR4 linkit not bad for a free linkenjoy
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Directory submission software review, Website Submitter
2007-06-13 09:32:00
On a previous post about creating your own submission service I briefly talked about submission software such as IBP Arelis and submiteaze that could help get the job done faster and create reports of submissions.I recently received the codes and passwords to the website submitter software from the company that owns it and I gave it a try. It was very nice gesture and I thank them for it. This is a brief review in my sort usage of it but keep in mind that its not a paid review.What does a directory submission program supposed to do ?Have a database of free or reciprocal directories that the owner can easily cycle through and with a press of a few buttons fill in the directory forms and submit his/her websites.This program's specific features and strong points are:takes you directly to the submit page of each directory if possibleIt has a database of more than 3000+ directories includedCan add your own directories to the databaseCan report a bad directory directly to the develope...
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Create a game site
2007-05-28 01:17:00
Recently I was talking to a friend developer and he revealed to me that he had build a "free online games site" over a year ago and that today it was generating for him over $500/month from adsense.Using my own search queries estimation tool or any other keyword suggestion tool you choose (overture, seobook, keywordtracker etc.) one can search for "games online" and see that there is an awful lot of searches on that and related terms. More that 2Million searches on the query "game online" alone for this month (according to the inventory of overture). People indeed do want to play flash games online, that is what this statistic tells us. Imagine how many other individualized searches (for specific games ...) go on that do not make it in the statistics.With this in mind I actually decided to setup a game site with free flash games for myself with over 2200 games.I know that the competition is actually pretty big but still I want to experiment. Google shows a total of 466 Million...
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PR0 to PR4 in 4 easy weeks
2007-04-25 22:54:00
I know lots of webmasters and SEO gurus that say that PR (google pageRank - the little green bar on the google toolbar) is not worth that much but everyone is using it as a measure.Webmasters refuse to exchange links with you if they think your PR is inferior to their website's PR. Lots of programs (reviewme.com ...) could reject your site because of low PR, some directory owners display the list of sites ordered with PR.So ... here is some simple steps you can follow to get your sites PR higher than it is and maybe get some extra traffic while you are at it.Post your link in forums using signatures and/or places that allow website reviews, put the site url in the signature with your target keywords for titlesSubmit to free and/or paid directories (in general the younger the directory the easier would be to get accept it in it)If you have other sites put sitewide links pointing to your new website. If sites are totally unrelated subject, put the links in the footer with small l...
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Start your own directory submission service
2007-04-04 19:48:00
Google's algorithm is structured in such a way that it sees links from website A to website B as a vote from owner of site A about the content of site B. The more votes one site gets the better rank it can get on the search engine results. This has created a need for websites to get as many links as possible from as many websites as possible. I am not claiming that the algorithm is so simple that links alone can help you rank better but experience has shown that they do help. Of course the quality of the site that links to you makes a difference but definetelly in the general sense the more backlinks one can have the better it is.One can get links naturally, because people like the content of the site and link to it or it can get "unatural" links. Link exchanges, link sales or website reviews can be considered "unatural" ways of getting back links but I have not heard of any cases where google has actually penalized a site for link exchanging (even though google is officially...
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Lone logo and template designers !!
2007-02-12 12:22:00
Are you a lone template/logo designer ?Are you sick of trying to outbid the big companies on the elance getacoder guru and the like ?Don't lose faith !!Most webmasters forums are filled with webmasters who could be given a hand at making their sites look prettier.Search the net for webmasters forum. I recommend digital point forums or v7n forums - lots of people hang out there. Most of them are enterpreneurs and could not bother to spend time on their logos or templates. They prefer to outsource this to other fellow forum members.Of course you have to show them some of your work, and maybe charge less for you first gigs until people trust you enough to give you jobs that require more money.There is also people that would sponsor you for making templates for their favorite cms or link directory scripts or even pay to get an exclusive on your stunning new template.Three tips:When you do work for someone ask them in your corespondence to comment on your work when its finished (start...
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Sell links
2007-01-12 16:47:00
Who wants to buy links ?Google likes sites that have many good links pointing to them (backlnks). Each link counts like a vote to the site that are pointing to. The better the site that is linking the stronger the vote. Roughly speaking the more and relevant the backlinks the better position the site gets among the search engine results. This votes are somehow summed up in what is called the Google PageRank. The PageRank is the little green bar that displays for every page when you have the google toolbar on your browser, the grade scale is from 0 to 10. If you want to know more about the pagerank visit Matt Cutt's blog (one of the chief engineers at google)Therefore people want as many links to their websites as they can possibly get. Sometimes they are even willing to pay for them.For this reason most webmaster forums have setup subforums for link development - where people give and get advice on how to build their backlinks - and also sections where people can post the...
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Photographers! Make money!
2007-01-09 12:40:00
Have some nice pictures ?ShutterStock is running a photo stock website. It will let users, with a paid subscription, to download pictures; pictures that can't be found anywhere else.What is in it for you ? ShutterStock wants photographers to sign up and upload their pictures for money. They promise to give money for each download to your picture. The rate is $0.5 for each download. Not much mind you but if your pictures are nice and people download them then for 100 downloads you can get $50. Unfortunatelly the minimum payout amount is $75 which means in order to get paid you have to have your picture downloaded at least 150 times.Another possible disadvantage to the program is that the subscription to the users starts from €121.91 which might prevent loads of people to sign up and might prevent you from reaching your minimum downloads fast.I am not a photographer and don't have something to offer so I did not sign up but if you are it might be worth a try.ShutterSt...
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Smart and easy steps of debt free life
2007-01-03 19:51:00
I was talking with this guy on the digital point forums and we started talking about credit card and other debts people get into over the years and then explained to me that he has a service on the internet to help people consolidate their debts. I got very interested in the service and thought people visiting the blog could also be very interested too but, since I am not very familiar with the subject he offered to write an article which I would post on this blog.So here it is unedited:Smart and easy steps of debt free lifeBeing in debts is not a crime. This is what all consumers should keep in mind before they start taking loans and credits. But the fact remains that most debtors take loans often going beyond their affordability and fail to make the payments. What is required is a little awareness on debt related issues along with a planned budget that will help you to resolve your debt problems. Here are some useful tips to guide you when you are in debts.Try out various option...
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Agloco - Own the internet
2006-12-30 14:32:00
AGLOCO is not just another pay to surf program.You sign up for your AGLOCO account, you download a viewbar which you install on your computer and you keep it active for 5 hours a month when you are on the internet. You get paid part of the money that AGLOCO makes depending on your surfing amount.You also get money when you refer people to AGLOCO If you refer people to sign up then these registered users become part of your network and when they get money you get money.You also get money from commissionsYou get a share of any commissions AGLOCO gets when a Member purchases a product or service from an AGLOCO Sponsor companyWhere will AGLOCO get all this money to pay all the members ?First of all AGLOCO is owned by its members in the sense that 90% is promised to go back to the members that comprise it (since its the biggest asset AGLOCO will have). If the network becomes as big as the founders hope it will (10,000,000 users by July 2007) then advertisers will pay good money to be ...
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Be a guide for about.com
2006-12-28 16:38:00
About.com is a very frequented site (Alexa Rank 86) that covers stories with many subjects.About.com website structureAbout.com has broken down its website into sections/categories and it has assigned a person (guide) responsible for each one. A guide is responsible to build and maintain a Guid e Site (a topical section) of About.com which contains: Original content (articles, reviews, FAQs, tutorials) written by the guideA blog featuring the guide's unique voice and personality A directory of the best content in the topic, whether it be the guide's own work or links to other sites A discussion forum where the guide serves as community leader About.com is in need of guides (full time commitment required)Check out the available topics and if you are interested in any of them just apply. Anyone can apply to be a guide and the requirements and experience to be accepted vary with the topic.Send you applicationQualified applicants with proven expertise in a topic are accepted into a 17...
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