Looking Back on a Year of Online Writing Tips & Tactics

Posted by Marci Hotsenpiller Dec 29, 2008

Here in the Limelight, we’ve been working hard to shine a light on the best tips and strategies for online writing over the past year. Thanks to Lima, our most prolific poster (!), we’ve been able to track down some handy SEO ideas for making sure online articles get "found" by search engines. Lima also went into the field to unearth a range of useful tactics from Suite101 writers themselves.

Looking back, we hope that it's been helpful. Thanks to everyone who took part in an interview, posted a comment, or sent in feedback. Looking ahead to the New Year, we’re pretty excited to introduce several new posters and add the odd surprise “guest” blogger into the mix.

Over the past few months we’ve definitely noticed that some of the best advice comes from our own writers. Here’s a perfect example in a recent article by Suite101 writer Mia Carter. Mia is a Boston-area journalist who (when not covering pet care on Suite as a Feature Writer), provides practical ideas about how online writers can use Google News Alerts to make sure their writing isn’t plagiarized elsewhere on the web.

As our Editor-in-chief Dirk Westphal likes to say, writing is a fairly solitary pursuit. The act of writing has never been a group activity. Here in the Limelight, we see that he’s right, but also hope to bridge the gap between writers by sharing what we know, presenting what we’ve learned, and hearing about what’s working for others in their online writing life. Write on, everyone! See you back here in the New Year.