Blogging for Jobs

Natalie Bovis-Nelsen claims her blog has lead to writing assignments and jobs she might have never obtained elsewise. She writes about the experience at Mediabistro in Blog Your Way Into Writing Work. If you want to try this approach, basically she advises:

* become an expert
* focus on quality
* post often
* get noticed
* give link-love

My mileage varies from hers. For example, my blog does make money. It pays for itself, my cable connection, and additional email services. I don't find writing jobs because of the blog, but it certainly helps establish the facts that I am reliable, dependable, and most importantly I kan spel rite. Most of my work comes from the website's pages on writers' services and editing. Most of my clients come to me from the results of a Google search, and it is the blog posts that bump the website up in the ranks of returns.