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5 Best WordPress SEO Plugins

Angela Neal — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:22:54 +0000

5 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress Anyone with a blog knows how important good SEO practices are to making your site a success. However we also know how complicated and overwhelming the subject of SEO can be. Here are my recommendations for the 5 best WordPress SEO plugins that no blog should be without. Platinum [...]

Can you be too professional?

Angela Neal — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:29:48 +0000

My answer, dear people, is yes. Not just because we are now all so wired into each other’s minute social movements via texts, tweets and status updates, but because we have always done business with people who we like, and trust. Whether it makes strict business sense or not, if you take proposals from two [...]

Good Author Gone Bad

Angela Neal — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:41:06 +0000

I am one of those people who believes that vindictive behaviour is never ok, even in defense. Some people admire that as grace; others deride it as being a doormat. Alice Hoffman is in the latter camp. As a writer you have to expect bad reviews. You don’t have to like them; you can rant [...]

New Look for GetaFreelancer and Why I Sometimes Work for Peanuts

Angela Neal — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:06:52 +0000

My my, GetaFreelancer has certainly had a bit of a face lift since the last time I dropped by. And I haven’t dropped by in a while. The reason being that out of all of the freelancer sites that I have used, GetaFreelancer jobs generally offer the lowest rates of pay around. In fact, most [...]

Music to Write To

Angela Neal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:08:29 +0000

Music was my first love, so it’s not surprising that it can have a huge impact of my productivity, serving as a distraction or inspiration while I am writing. For example, no matter how many studies are done on the intellectual stimulation provided by Mozart I for one can’t write a decent word with that [...]

Do we really need words?

Angela Neal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:33:04 +0000

We seem so desperate to crush our language these days. It seems inevitable that in cramming our thoughts into 140 characters, and abbreviating the English language into a new staccato short hand for texting we are losing some of our lexicon. Huge chunks actually. And while many people will tell you that we can get [...]