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Content Writing Update – January 15, 2020

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I just noticed that the last content writing update that I posted was on December 28, 2019.

Been busy with work.

In one of my updates I had mentioned that I’m writing content for a university website.

Lots of pages need to be added to the university website, so it is going to take a while.

A couple of clients vanished after initial interaction about their content writing requirement.

Precisely this is the reason I take an advance: then there is a commitment from both sides and I also know that the other person is serious about getting the work done.

Otherwise, I needlessly end up wasting my time.

An interesting project I’m doing is for a Dutch website.

In fact, it gave me an all new idea to offer my website rewriting and translation services in English.

Rewriting and translating existing text is actually fun and also easier compared to writing completely original content.

Although Google Translate is a good tool, it doesn’t exactly convey the needed emotion.

So, no matter in which language the content is written on the website, first I use Google Translate to understand what it is conveying, and then I rewrite it in my own style and my own language.

Also embarking upon a project of rewriting an e-book.

It’s already written in English. I need to make it sound better. Fun.

I have also started publishing my newsletter with some regularity.

If you have subscribed, you must have noticed you are getting more updates these days.

That’s it for today.

Content Writing Update – December 28, 2019

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Due to the ongoing CAA (Citizen Amendment Act) protests by the Muslim community in India the Internet was blocked in our city, so nothing much happened yesterday.

Today I have been working on a speech for a multilevel marketing company owner in Punjab.

The speech is to be written in Hindi or rather, a mix of Hindi and English.

Yesterday I sent him a sample and he liked it, though, he said, his audience wouldn’t be able to understand pure Hindi, so some English words are to be added too.

Other than that, I’m also working on the website copy of a life coaching website but this work is not direct.

It has been outsourced to me by a web design company.

They haven’t paid yet, so, I have sent them a small sample.

These days I insist on getting some payment upfront.

Sometimes, clients give the work and then get busy in something else, or lose interest.

For them, since there has been no stake, sometimes even a follow-up is unnecessary.

I keep writing and they don’t respond.

This doesn’t happen with every client who changes his or her mind, but it has happened many times.

Advance payment shows that the client is serious about the work he or she is giving me.

In return, before he or she has to give an advance, I provide a 300-400-words sample which, I think, is fair enough.

I have also been optimizing my existing webpages.

Many of my main webpages are not optimized for search engines.

Although, I write SEO content by default, I hadn’t optimized the pages according to the SEOPressor criteria, the SEO WordPress plug-in that I use to analyze my webpages.

Have my rankings improved?

Well, I have hardly changed 5-6 webpages ever since I started on this project.

As I have mentioned in one of my blog posts, for almost 2 months I was bedridden and I was only focusing on client work, with no new content for my own website or blog.

This had a negative impact on my search engine rankings.

Hence, I’m also focusing on that.