A new blogging services client asked me to help get her blog set up on Google Blogger (blogspot) a few months ago. I was happy to help.

This particular blog’s purpose was to provide information on personal finance and debt management. The client to monetize the blog through some affilate programs and with AdSense.

I had no problem getting the content in place and laying out the pages, etc. I’ve used Blogger quite a bit so it didn’t take much time. A few weeks later, I went into Blogger to edit this personal finance blog. To my surprise, Google had disabled the blog completely as they believed it was spam. WTF?????? Read the full post

I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the statement that all content is advertising.
One of the problems with push marketing is that consumers just got tired of the ads and to being “sold” everywhere they turned. To me, content marketing as a pull mechanism (as you mention) needs a bit more emphasis. It’s content that [...]

I’ve been busy lately – working for my clients and their clients. In the meantime, I’ve decided that the old HelpDocuments.com domain just didn’t make much sense for me anymore.

When I started HelpDocuments.com I was a contract technical writer. It only made sense – Help – like online help, and Documents – for all of the documents that I created. But I don’t get many technical writing contracts any more.

I had decided some time ago that it wasn’t worth constantly paying for software upgrades for RoboHelp and Framemaker, buying technical documentation software like Madcap Flare and all the stuff that goes with it to fit myself into a niche I found somewhat boring.

It’s all about the web for me, and it has been for years. Read the full post