Dana Tumbles Around The Information Highway

I live and breathe in cyberspace as a freelance web writer, blogger and internet marketing dabbler and I leave bread crumb trails, ink stains, and fingerprints all over the place!
Sat Apr 21
Why You Should Work with Dana Prince

My web writing client base has been diverse over the last 6 years but includes: SEO companies, internet marketers, online magazines, and more. I can write or ghostwrite on just about any topic in a way that helps drive search engine results while also helping to convert readers into prospects or customers.

Thu Feb 16

Our New Baby Parrotlet Talks

Microchip Cat Flap Doors are Much Better than Generic Cat Flaps

If you’re interested in a microchip cat flap door, consider http://www.sureflap.co.uk. It has great features and benefits.

If you have an outside cat (or several of them) and are thinking about installing a cat door in your house or garage, this could make certain aspects of your life a lot easier. Using a flap door for a cat means you won’t have to let the cat in and out all the time. It’ll also help you go to bed knowing your cat can get in or out when it needs to, and it can be very practical (versus having to watch for the cat into the wee hours). But cat  owners with cat doors have often had unexpected surprises as a result of their cat flap door. Some have unwanted visitors who discover the flap and see it as an open invitation.

Eliminate Unwanted Visitors

Some people tell tales of other cats wandering into their home. Some people find other friends as well, such as  mice, squirrels, and racoons.  It might sound comical but it could pose a health hazard to a homeowner and open the door to other pests such as fleas invading your home  as they hitch a ride in on another animal.  For this reason, many homeowners have removed their cat door.  Some people opt to put a kitty or doggie door on their garage so that the pet can have shelter when the pet owner can’t get them into the house for the night but this also opens your garage or other out building to unwanted animals and pests. Lower quality pet doors also expose the building to the elements.

Better Cat Door Options Exist

There are newer options on the market that can help your cat have the freedom of coming in and out of the house without your intervention.  Some options work with a cat collar that unlocks the door due to a device within the collar. This option can be flawed when a cat loses a collar or when you have multiple cats in one home. Another recent development includes reading the cat’s microchip and having the door unlock based on a match with the chip number.  If going with a microchip cat flap door option, be sure to choose a solution that lets you change programming in case you have any new feline family editions. (Sureflap has this feature)

Having a lockable cat door can be a much better solution for the safety of your home and for giving your feline the “key” to the house.

Wed Feb 15
Hire an Internet Marketing Writer and Increase Your Revenue

Are you looking for help succeeding with your internet marketing efforts? It’d be helpful, at times, to be able to clone yourself, wouldn’t it? (Without your clone turning all evil like they inevitably do in the movies, of course…

Sun Feb 5
Buy Business Blogging Services

If you want to beat the Google Panda blues and you want to take advantage of all that SEO writing can do for your website, you should buy business blogging services. If you don’t have time to write blogs regularly for your business, hire me to do it for you. Contact me for a quote on how much it is for regular business blogging.

Business blogging costs shouldn’t be seen as an expense. The investment you make in business blogging can have substantial ROI. Blogging services can have very positive effects on your website traffic levels  and on your overall customer relationships and presence in your industry. See http://danaprincewriting.com/blog/2012/02/05/cost-ofbusiness-blogging-services/#.Ty63g_nQjuQ.tumblr for more

Wed Feb 1
Online Traffic ADHD – Tips to Beat the Bounce

If you want to succeed on the web, it’s important that you find a way to overcome the online ADHD an overwhelming majority of your visitors will have.

What is Online ADHD?

Online ADHD happens when people become so accustomed to the internet moving at warp speed that they begin to find it challenging to focus on one thing for too long. If your readers can’t be lassoed for more than 10-15 seconds, they’ll be worthless and you will have a high bounce rate (which also has the potential to hurt your site’s rankings with major search engines). You need to work a little harder in this day and age to grab someone’s attention and hold it for more than a nanosecond. Overcome that ADHD and you’ll improve your conversion rates.

What can you do to help thwart their bouncing off your page soon after they arrive?

Sun Jan 29
Get More Mileage from Your Web Content Writing

Writing isn’t always easy. That’s one of the reasons so many website owners go to a professional web content writer for help. Whether you need content for blogs, for your website, for article marketing purposes, or for another reason, getting as much mileage out of it as possible is a good idea. Here are some tips to help you do that:

  • Use snippets from a blog post for a social media update. Do you really love something you or your writer said in an article or blog? Use that quote for a social media update.  Use it on Twitter or Facebook, for example, and link back to your site or the place where the quote came from.
  • Turn your blog into an e-book or special report. If you’re posting a lot about your industry on your blog or through a series of articles or email, maybe you could take that info and consolidate it into a special report or ebook. Using that book could help you increase your subscriber list or attract new customers. It could be a great value-add for existing customers to get a plethora of info in one place. Not sure how to turn your blog content into a useful e-book? Talk to a professional writer (hint: contact me) for help.
  • Re-purpose some of your content for other uses. Sometimes you can use an idea or a small part of a piece of content to spark inspiration for a new piece. Consider writing a series of blog posts or do an email course, for example, on a topic rather than one long and comprehensive post. If you’ve got a great article that’s converting well, capitalise on that topic to enhance your success for your business, for affiliate marketing, and so on.
  • Rewrite and submit somewhere else. If you’ve got the same piece of content in a hundred places it probably won’t do as much for you as 100 pieces of content in 100 places. It doesn’t hurt to do a bit of recycling here and there as long as you’ve got a multi-faceted approach. Unique content does provide value for your reputation as an authority in your niche, as content for your prospects, and for search engine fodder—-plenty of rich and strategic content = excellent SEO (search engine optimisation) results. Take a blog post and re-write it into a HubPage and then a Squidoo lens.  Write an article and tweak or spin it so that you can send to multiple article directories.  Don’t forget to write a great resource box to entice people back to your site. Consider using several different boxes with varied approaches.Need help? Talk to a writer specialised in article marketing.

A bit of content could go a long way. A lot of content could take you far! But if you are recycling some content, make sure it’s still a well-written piece.

Quantity can help but should never overshadow quality!

Regular web content both on and off the page will help you build a following, establish your company as a go-to source for information related to your niche, and will help you grow your online business.

Are You Creating Nutrient-Dense Spider Food for Your Website?

Are you feeding the spiders? Web spiders are little programs sent out by search engines that go off and look for new web pages to crawl. Having your site crawled on a regular basis could lead to a  steady flow of targeted organic traffic arriving on your site due to ranking as highly relevant for the right words and phrases. Once people arrive on your site, you’ll have an opportunity to convince them that they’ve come to the right place. Just like organic food is best, so is organic traffic! It’s free and organically driven visitors have a higher conversion rate than paid traffic.

So, how do you feed the spiders so they’ll rank you well and want to send traffic your way? Web Content.

5 Common Qualities of the Best Web Writers
Fri Jan 13

Help or Get Help by Volunteering for Clinical Trials

Clinical / Drug Trial Info

Participating in Clinical Trials: Help or Be Helped

Looking for clinical trials in a specific city? There are companies that will let you register to participate in clinical trials so that you can help advance medical science. In some circumstances, you’ll be participating because of a specific health condition or illness and in other circumstances, healthy males and females in specific categories volunteer or sign up for remuneration for specific purposes.

Examples of Some Clinical Trials Include:
- Heart and other cardiovascular studies
- Respiratory diseases and / or disorders
- Infections
- Digestive issues
- Nervous system disorders
- And so on

Medical trials are highly regulated and working with an accredited research company is, of course, recommended to minimize the chance of problems. There are different phases of trials to participate in (Phase I, II , III, and IV) and your medical status and the research phase in progress will both dictate where you might participate.

What about Payment for Medical Research Participation?

Some studies do include a fee for your services. This fee will vary, depending on the situation, and is typically paid out after completion of a study.

What about Risks?

Any participation in a medical or drug trial could include an element of risk. You should be made aware of the potential risks before you agree to participate. Not all risks are foreseeable, especially in early phases of research but a research company will make every effort to supervise and to mitigate that risk. Many people who have participated in such research have helped to shape the face of 21st century medicine. In some cases, the risk was shadowed by the potential benefits of a cure, especially if that volunteer was suffering from a specific illness.
Learning more about options can help you (if you’re someone with a specific illness and if you’re a healthy individual looking to help out medical science and potentially earn some money for your time and assistance, researching volunteer opportunities could be prudent.

Get More Info:

If you’re looking for clinical trials, London and other cities could have a trial for you to participate in. Check out http://www.drugtrial.co.uk for more info and to register.