Occasionally the freelance writer will have a client request (or a new offer), to work as a blogger. This is fairly easy work, but don't start out taking it lightly. In order for blogging to be an effective means of Internet Marketing (which is normally the motivation to bring on a professional writer), the blog needs consistent posts. This consistency is both in the writing style of the blog, as well as the timing of the new posts.

Blogs will need roughly two to four new posts every day, for the blog to make its head above the water of other similar blogs. The consistency will also include the use of the keywords and key phrases requested by the client. The freelance writer will find that the first few days are relatively easy to accomplish, and at $15 to $20 per post (on the average, some clients offer more, but not much), the pay rate isn't that bad. After the fourth day, the freelance writer begins to feel the true nature of a blog writer.

There are several variables to consider before committing to long term blog posting as a freelance writer:

1) Length of posts requested by the client
2) Number of Keyword Phrases
3) Number of posts per day
4) Blog Subject Scope

The most telling of these is the Blog Subject Scope. The narrower the scope, the more difficult it is to maintain a consistent posting level. This is probably obvious, once pointed out, but many new Freelance Writers fail to take this simple factor of blogging into account.

Taking the Blog Subject Scope into account the other three become more obvious as well. If the subject scope is narrow, such as 'only mortgage loan information', and the length of the posts are 500 - 700 words, with only 5 keyword phrases to focus on, with four posts a day, this assignment is going to become very difficult in less than two weeks. This is of course assuming the client wishes 'fresh and new' content posted every time.

Narrow subject matters are difficult at best. If the client strongly wishes for such a narrow scope, ask that the other factors be more relaxed.

There are several other tips-and-tricks which can help you out if you find that you have blundered into one of these narrow passages. I will be posting some of these ideas as the days pass; and also putting together class subjects in the Freelance Writing Learning Center as well. Of course, as always, these classes are free to go through, so delve in and keep making money.

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The Ever-changing-Now of topics which become popular. Wouldn't it be great to have the content and PageRank set across the calendar for the most popular searches of the day? week? month?

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Bible code is more correctly known as Torah Code, because it is the Old Testament which is said to be in "cipher", or that it has portions of it which are in cipher or have a hidden meaning. When you read sections of the old Testament, such as Ezikel's description of the Cherub, it isn't difficult to believe that the text might be hiding something more than a clear description.

Searches for Bible Code are more frequent around the major church holidays, as conversations turn to the topic of Church validity. Searches for this subject and similar topics will spike near major church holidays. (See working with the ever-changing "now")

Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific encryption method began in 1994 when Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg submitted their scientific paper, "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" to the peer-reviewed journal Statistical Science[1]. After unexpectedly surviving an unprecedented three rounds of peer review, the paper was published by Statistical Science and the "ELS" phenomenon was "presented as a puzzle" to its readership. A storm of controversy immediately ensued.

Since then the term "Bible Codes" has been popularly used to refer specifically to information encrypted via the ELS method.

Since the Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (WRR) paper was published, two conflicting schools of thought regarding the "Codes" have emerged among proponents. The traditional (WRR) view of the codes is based strictly on their applicability to the Torah, and asserts that any attempt to study the codes outside of this context is invalid. This is based on a belief that the Torah is unique among biblical texts in that it was given directly to mankind (via Moses) in exact letter-by-letter sequence and in the original Hebrew language.

A Primer on the Torah Codes Controversy for Laymen

Bible Code Topic on the Wiki

Bible Code area on DMOZ

In Depth Look into Torah Codes

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