Sharon Hurley Hall

It’s been a while since my last guest post roundup but I haven’t been idle. Here are a few of the posts and articles I’ve published in the last two months.

Authopublisher

• Thinking About Ebook Design: Self Publishing Case Study
• Book Planning with WorkFlowy: Self Publishing Case Study
• The Writing Process – Self Publishing Case Study
• Ebook Research: Self Publishing Case Study

BasicBlogTips

Does Guest Blogging Really Build Traffic? The Stats Say Yes!

Live Your Love

Guest Blogging Face-Off: MyBlogGuest and BloggerLinkUp

Freelance Folder

The Accidental Blogger

Living Better at 50+

• How To Eat Well Over 50
• Being an Older Mom – Triumphs and Tribulations

Traffic Generation Cafe

How to Make Your Twitter Traffic Sticky

Words on the Page

Guest Post: Working Remotely

Writing it Right For You

Writing Then and Now

I was also interviewed by Annabel Candy of Successful Blogging.

Posts for clients:

• 5 Ways to Get the Best Deals on Airport Parking
• Four Reasons Why The Coffee Break Rocks!
• Five Commercial Electric Vehicle Manufacturers To Watch
• Is your business carbon neutral?
• How To Choose The Perfect Coffee Machine
• Three Reasons To Spend More Time Round The Water Cooler
• Buying a coffee machine? Think about this
• Why Fundraising With Coffee Is a Great Idea
• Why and How To Make Your Own Soda
• Coffee — It’s a Matter of Taste
• Improve Productivity With an Office Coffee Machine
• 5 Ways to Show Your Customers You Care About the Environment
• 5 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint At Home

This has been a varied writing week for me. I finally completed that technical article I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. That meant doing two telephone interviews to give it some zip – and they were fun to do. Since I already knew all the technical info, I was able to concentrate on getting their feelings about the product.

I wrote a press release for another client who said “You knocked this one out of the park!”

I also continued blogging for the Taking Off Travel Blog, where we’re now publishing more newsy posts. The more feature like posts will now be appearing as guest posts on other travel sites – watch this space for updates in the next couple of weeks.

Speaking of guest posting, I had my first try at posting via MyBlogGuest this week – and got instant take up of my first post, which will be appearing in the next week or so.

Finally, I did a couple of resumes and a few bits of other writing – a good week all round.

Recent web appearances include:

• Web Content Writers, Where Art Thou? How to Find a Writer on the Quips and Tips for Writers site
• A mini interview on For This Lifetime
• A listing on Nick Daws’ list of Top Ten Twitter Follows for Writers – this was last month, but it took a while to show up in my alerts
• Get Paid to Write Online was included on My Alternative Career’s list of helpful websites for new writers – thanks, Victoria!

It’s been a great week for writing.

This week I have written five posts for a ghost blogging client, covering web apps, parenting and more. I’ve also written some real estate community guides – it was fun to learn about new places and convey that to a new audience.

Last week, I landed a blogging gig at the Quips and Tips group of sites and my first posts are up. Here they are:

• How to Take Care of a Rabbit – 5 Tips for Pet Bunny Rabbits
• What Do I Do When Someone Dies? Funeral Planning in 4 Steps

As well as that I’ve done a bunch of posts for Park Ride Fly USA, which is fun, because I enjoy writing about travel. Here are a couple I enjoyed writing:

• A Greener Airport
• Cruise Ship Tips on the Rise

I’ve started editing a technical article written a couple weeks ago, and have done some proofreading for a European magazine with international circulation.

To round out the week, I’ve written four resumes to help people find career success! What have you achieved this week?

I’ve just finished a job ghostwriting articles related to the entertainment industry for a client of mine. She provided titles (including keywords), and I researched and wrote the articles. It was a new topic for me, but one I thoroughly enjoyed. Here’s what my client had to say about the articles:

The articles are fantastic! I like how you integrated the targeted keyword without stuffing them in every other sentence. It flowed very naturally and I enjoyed reading them. While I’m not that familiar with this niche you did bring out tips and suggestions for people to take action on which is great. Great writing.

- Triple Threat Publishing

I’m a big fan of article marketing. It’s a promotional technique which has worked well both for me and my clients. That’s why I was so pleased to get an email from the EzineArticles team today, saying I’d been featured in their Expert Author Case Study series.  Their intro says: “Sharon Hurley Hall is an excellent example of a member who has taken our advice as a package, instead of piecemeal like most members, and parlayed that advice into making a living with the written word.”

Check out the case study for my views on article marketing - and of course, contact me if you need an article marketing package to promote your business.

I’ve started writing for Suite101. It’s great because I can write about a wide range of topics. Here are the articles I’ve written so far:

Late last year, I posted a list of my articles on Life123. The site has since reorganised its navigation, so I’m posting the list again with the right links. Here they are:

Freelance Writing

• Five Freelance Writing Lessons
• How to Set Writing Goals
• Organizing a Home Office for Writing
• Dealing With Wrist Tendonitis
• Essential Writing Tools for Freelancers
• How Freelancers Can Build Web-Writing Skills for Free
• Three Quick Ways to Create a Freelance Writing Portfolio
• A Writers’ Guide to Provisions of Copyright Law
• Get More Freelance Writing Opportunities: Know the Market, Know Thyself
• A Guide to Ghostwriting
• DIY Freelance Writing Self Promotion

Home and Garden

• Quick Guide to Stain Removal
• Save Money with Natural Cleaning Products from the Pantry
• How to Organize Schedules for Cleaning
• How to Buy a Used Car From a Private Party
• How to Buy a Car From a Dealership
• Six Ways To Find Cheap Airline Tickets

Pregnancy and Parenting

• Understanding Pregnancy Ultrasounds
• How to Prevent Stretch Marks
• Coping with Postpartum Depression
• A Guide to Fertility Treatment Options
• Creating A  Birth Plan
• A Guide To Your Fertility Cycle
• Facts About Open Adoption
• Finding A Nanny
• Understanding Closed Adoption

Health and Safety

• A Parents’ Guide to Teenage Obesity
• How to Stay Healthy Over 50
• What Are ADD and ADHD?
• Eating Well Over 50
• Human Aging Process
• Back to School Safety Tips for Parents
• Vacation and Travel Safety for Kids
• Water Safety for Kids
• Issues with Teens and Social Networking
• Air Travel Tips For Flying With Children

Here are some of my most recent articles on EzineArticles. They are a good example of how article marketing can help you to promote a site. These can be informational articles, keyword based articles for SEO or a combination of the two.

Here’s a round up of the work I’ve had published in the last month or so.

Appvita

• Plurk review
• Friendster review
• SecondBrain review

Daily Writing Tips

• Obsessed With Ob- Words
• Cockney Rhyming Slang
• The Scandinavian Connection
• Complacent, Complaisant

Eclectic Rebel Travel Blog

• Three Essential Gadgets For The Business Traveler
• Layover In Chicago Midway Airport (MDW)
• Hey Big Spenders – Travel News

Ezine Articles

• How to Choose a Flooring Tile

Hubpages

• Choosing A Jogging Stroller

MommaHelpers

• Parenting: Should You Sweat The Small Stuff?

TechGerm

• Add-On Of The Week: GMail Manager
• Managing Your Passwords
• Android On The Horizon
• Add-On Of The Week: FoxClocks
• Delicious – A Firefox Bookmarks Replacement?
• Feedly Gets A Facelift
• Add-On Of The Week – Shareaholic
• LoJack Saves Your Laptop
• Making Friends On Friendster
• Add-On Of The Week – Aksimet Auntie Spam
• Evernote – Never Lose Your Online Stuff
• Lifestreaming With Swurl
• Add-On Of The Week – Greasemonkey

Or should that be: writing for a books site? One of my latest gigs is writing for Webooks. It’s an ebook publishing site that is expanding to include articles related to the books’ content. I’ve written four articles for them so far, and two have been published. They are Moving Your Article From Mag To Web and Proofreading Tips For Writers. Hope you enjoy them. Bookmark my profile page so you’ll know when the next ones appear.