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Sharon and I (Patrick) have recently been quite busy writing guest posts ordered via Piggy Bank Pie writing services. I’d like to take a moment to thank our clients for using our guest writing services and share with you our latest guest posts:

Gold & Premium Piggy Bank Pie Clients

Geeks Are Sexy

Collin LaHay from Mixed Market Art

Latest Guest Posts

• Post Title: Missed The Andromeda Strain? Catch it Again on Saturday Night
  Blog: Geeks Are Sexy
  If you haven’t watched this great miniseries from A&E, tonight (Saturday May 31st) is your chance to watch it back.

• Post Title: Wesite Marketing with Twitter
  Blog: Mixed Market Arts
  Twitter has become a great source of traffic for bloggers and links can travel quite fast in the Twittosphere.

• Post Title: Blu-Ray vs. DVD: The New Format War?
  Blog: Geeks Are Sexy
  Now that HDDVD is dead, many thought the format war was over… but in reality, it’s just the beginning.

• Post Title: Are Traffic Widgets Really Worth It?
  Blog: Mixed Market Arts
  Sharon looks at different traffic widgets and shares her thoughts on the subject

• Post Title: 8 SMO Tips To Nitro Boost Your Traffic
  Blog: Mixed Market Arts
  This is a collection of 8 great Social Media Optimization tips you should seriously consider to increase traffic to your blog.

• Post Title: 5 Killer Titles For Showing Off Your Home Theater System
  Blog: Geeks Are Sexy
  Time to impress friends and family (or even yourself!) with these great DVD and Blu-Ray titles. One killer title per category.

• Post Title: When April Fool’s Jokes Infiltrate Wikipedia
  Blog: Geeks Are Sexy
  Darren Rowse’s page in Wikipedia gets poluted by an April Fool’s joke that one thought was… true.

• Post Title: 10 Must-Read Books for Geeks - Part I and 10 Must-Read Books for Geeks - Part II
  Blog: Geeks Are Sexy
  If you are a geek, check out this ultimate collection of books… for geeks!

• Post Title: 10 Cool Uses of Twitter
  Blog: Geekpreneur.com (ghostwriting)
  Twitter is not just micro blogging to friends and follower, Check out these cool and original services built on top of the Twitter messaging system.

How Can I Make Money as a Guest Blogger?

I received this question a few times by email and the answer is plain and simple. First, you need to do a few non-paying gigs, only to get your name out there. If possible, try to write for bigger blogs than yours.

Once you’ve written a few guest posts, you can use them as a portfolio to find yourself paying jobs. The Piggy Bank Pie Writing Services page is a good example of a portfolio.

Providing killer content while building your portfolio is vital. I don’t even think I need to explain why. Keep in ming that if you want to find paying gigs, you need to write content other bloggers would want to buy.

Once you’ve published 5-6 guest posts, you can start advertising yourself as a guest blogger. Just add a page or a banner on your site that says Hire Me and provide basic details on what you offer. If you look at this site’s top left banner you’ll find the one I’m using. You can also have a look at Muhammad Saleem’s Hire Me banner in his right sidebar, this one points to his email address… whatever you prefer.

Get Prime Time Visibility

Now that you are ready, go on and publish quality content on your blog and try to get them submitted on sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, BloggingZoom, Sphinn, Mixx, etc. Visibility is key here.

You can also offer your writing services on BloggerJobs.biz, and consult job boards such as ProBlogger Job Board and CopyBlogger Jobs. You need to be fast on these last two boards though, they both have enormous traffic so competition is high.