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Pitch Me Aims to Streamline Freelance Journalism

A great place for freelance journalist to give previews of their ideas to editors to read over is Pitchme.org.

There is a new listings site for freelancers that was started by journalist Kabir Chibber who feels some of the industry is "stuck in the 19th century." This site goes from pitch to payment.

Chibber hopes to create a space where journalists can pitch their best ideas. Editors can log in and read them and commission these journalists to write for them.

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Graph Search, A New Facebook Development

A new Facebook development has been announced. Graph Search is an innovated, internal search engine with clear-cut precision developed by the Facebook team. At an event held at Menlo Park campus, Mark Zuckerberg presented the three segments of Facebook which are the timeline, newsfeed and the most recent Graph Search.

Zuckerberg held this press release to disclose a new Facebook development to let everyone know what exciting changes are in store for Facebook. In an explanation of exactly what Graph Search is, Zuckerberg portrayed the new feature as an internal search engine that is different from a regular online search engine.

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Networking At Affiliate Summit West

It may be 2013, but it seems as though nothing much has really changed. Obama is still the President, and in Las Vegas, the hotels and convention centers are still full of those attending various events, seminars and conferences.

One of the most well known of the affiliate marketing conferences is Affiliate Summit, founded by Shawn Collins and Missy Ward in 2003. This year's conference is at Caesar's Palace and around 5,000 people are expected to attend and learn about such subjects as generating leads, tracking performance, SEO techniques, social marketing and effective networking.

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How Much Does Cell Phone App Development Cost?

One of the most common questions surrounding app development is “how much does it cost?” Unfortunately, the answer is not as clear or direct as the question. Zco Corporation has developed apps costing as little as $5,000 and as much as $1 million. The overall cost to develop an app depends on a number of factors throughout the development process.

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Make WordPress Run Faster

Many Internet users rely on WordPress as the platform for getting their written work on the Internet. One concern that all users face is how to make wordpress run faster to enhance the user's experience. Improving your websites performance does not have to cost a lot of time and money when you use jsdelivr.

What is jsdelivr?

MaxCDN sponsors jsdelivr and is a free CDN service for webmasters and developers to link their plugin files to save bandwidth and improve website performance. It also gives users the ability to route the programs that use the plugins to the links destination, making the websites load faster. Increasing your websites loading time will help to make it user friendly, and in turn will be search engine friendly too.

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Considering The Future Of Article Spinning

I have read many articles lately indicating Google will start penalizing sites containing spun articles. In 2013, you will have to alter every word in an article to spin the content. If I have to spin each word manually, I might as well create an entirely new article. Readers can easily identify poorly spun content and I believe the experts working for Google will have no trouble writing a program capable of doing the same thing.

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Sponsored Tweets : Making Money on Twitter

Paid tweets are not a new concept. The issue of spam posts and spam users in our followers list and twitter feed is not uncommon, but the attempts are painfully apparent and easily dismissed. Ted Murphy, owner of IZEA, has begun a new venture at IZEA called SponsoredTweets. The founder has a good stream of celebrities, conventional as well as online to back his sponsored tweeting venture.

Freelance writer / critic Leonard Pierce on the panel "Songs Absorb Conflict" at the 2008 Pop Conference, Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Are You Making These 6 SEO Copywriting Blunders?

If you’re like me, you already have. Heck, no one’s perfect. But, Google’s 2011 release of Panda (and 20 subsequent updates so far) means that the search engine focuses on quality content much more than ever before.

Because Google’s goal lies in serving the best quality search results, you can bet it will continually refine its ability to give the marketplace what it wants. What Google means by quality is much different than what an experienced freelance writer produces as a final product. But, if you pay attention to these 6 common blunders, you keep the quality of your copy at a level both Google and your readers appreciate.

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Marketing With Business Newsletters

Using business newsletter templates would be a simple and effective way of keeping people up to date about the latest happenings within your organization. If you would like to run a successful business, you will need to market your products in the most effective way possible. When you send out these newsletters to customers that have spent money on your products in the past, you would be able to generate business in the future. Since these people have been willing to pick up your products in the past, it is very likely that you would be able to use them as a source of income in the future. However, you will need to use business newsletter templates in order to create the most effective presentation that will capture the interest of potential customers and get them to spend money as a result.

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How to Get More out of Google Analytics

As a website owner there's a good chance you use Google Analytics to track visits to your website. It can be a very powerful tool to get to know your website, visitors, and keywords intimately -- provided you know where to look and what to look for. Here are some top tips to getting the most out of your Analytics account.