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Reminder about Plagiarism and Duplicate Content
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If more than 50 words match when your article is run through Copyscape, and they aren't judged to be a "false positive" for including an address, team name, etc. that constitutes plagiarism. When full sentences match word for word, that is plagiarism. If a sentence is quoted verbatim, it must be inside of quotation marks followed by source attribution, or it is considered plagiarism. There are very few instances, though, where this will be acceptable in any of Read more [...]
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Pay Rate Changes, Effective 1/1
Any assignments handed out after 1/1 will be paid at new, higher rates. Existing assignments handed in after 1/1 will still be paid at the old rates.
Editing (per article) – $2
General articles (about 300 words) – $8
Researched and referenced articles (about 500 words) – $12
Blog posts – $20
Newsletter articles – $25
Linkbait articles – $50
Press Releases – $50
Overdue assignments
I put out an APB concerning overdue assignments last night. I did not have enough available time and resources to reassign them to other writers before 9:00 am this morning. Therefore, if you have an overdue article in your My Articles section, you have a slight reprieve. But I need these articles by 9:00 am Monday 12/22. If you cannot do this, please release the article(s) so that someone else can write them instead.
If you pick up an article from the writer panel that is already overdue, please Read more [...]
More SEO Training
Editor Michelle found an article written by one of my co-workers that may help you understand SEO writing a little bit more: SEO Copywriting 101
Of course, Lisa (my co-worker and the author) would like to point out that this is an old piece that may not be the BEST thing out there, but it really boils things down to the basics.
Commonly Misused Words
There’s a truly great post called… The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words
I highly recommend you read it.