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US Native Writer/Author/Blogger For Tech News Site

$30-250 USD

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Posted over 13 years ago

$30-250 USD

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The launch of our new website focuses on the latest and greatest tech news to hit the planet. Our site is founded by some heavy hitters in the SEO industry and we have the need for professional contributing writers/authors who want to gain valuable exposure for yourself. You can write for us as a contributing author, blogger, or both and write full-length featured and opinionated articles. We need articles, press releases and content for our site on a regular basis. The topics can range widely i.e. gadgets and mobile phones, software, iphone apps and hacks, startup companies, new properties from exisiting tech companies like google, microsoft, apple....etc! You should be willing to do some research on your own for the topic your writing about. In almost all the cases we would provide some direction by way of links to help you to develop the content. Please respond with: A. Samples of articles, press release & web content. B Your rate per word. C How many words can be delivered per day. We can start immediately; say within a day or 2. >>>>>>>WE HAVE SPECIAL GUIDELINES WHICH MUST BE ADHERED TO WHEN POSTING ARTICLES<<<<<<<< 1) TITLES - Keep it Short and include primary keyword/s (But don't stuff keywords in the title). Fill in the platinum seo box with the title and comma seperated keywords. Description will be taken care of automatically. 2) URLS - Keep the urls shorter and include keywords in [login to view URL] the tile is short, the url will automatically be short and you may not have to do anything to address this requirement. 3) LINK to the original news source. 4) Make sure that you do spell checks and grammatical checks. 5) Use H2 tags for subheadings. 6) MAX IMAGE WIDTH - 600px. Use a tool like snagit to resize the images to this width, if the image is wider than 600 px. The height shall be auto adjusted to maintain the resolution. 7) Specify the thumbnail url as value against custom field thumb for each [login to view URL] there are multiple images for a post, you can specify any one appropriate thumbnail [login to view URL] can find the thumbnail url value via the image up-loader tool in wordpress. 8) Use synonyms and co-occuring terms for the primary keywords in the news item. But be natural and include them in the flow. 9) Use strong tags for important keywords if any. (Eg - <strong>Bold text</strong>) 10) Use blockquote tags for citing references (Eg - <blockquote> This is some press release statement </blockquote>) 11) To start with, do not publish but only save the posts as drafts. 12) Original writing is a precondition. NO plagiarism, no cut and paste. Work will be checked for originality using Copyscape.com. 13) All deliverables must adhere to U.S. copyright law as they will be published as original content. The deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. 14) We reserve the right to refuse any article which in our opinion doesn’t meet our requirement or quality standards. Above all does not pass copyscape / dupecop. This is a Wordpress driven website so you will have your own login access to post your articles. We would need a brief bio & pic of you for the site. This is an ongoing project and ONLY those who can commit need apply! Extra brownie points go to those who are tech junkies! *******VERY IMPORTANT******* For all accepted & paid work we will hold exclusive and complete copyright. Articles are not to be redistributed....period! Our goal is to become the Internets leading source for the tech industry with up to the minute news! Come grow with us! Since this is a new venture we need some pretty low bids, but as we progress so will your compensation and exposure as an expert in this field. Think about it you can refer employers to professionally published examples of your writing to obtain positions as full-time, freelance, or syndicated columnists.
Project ID: 895796

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