Posted by jbpounders on Oct 27, 2009 in Help, Installation | 0 comments

How to get your users to be your editors.

So you've decided to take the plunge and use gooseGrade to edit your site. Great, here are some tips to make sure you use it effectively. 1) Location. Location. Location. Place copy edit button in an easy to find location. At the bottom or top of your blog post or body content is recommended. Sidebar buttons don't usually get as much action. If your readers can't find the button then you are less likely to receive edits. Here is a properly placed gooseGrade copy edit button on Eaves.ca Eaves.ca...

Posted by admin on Jun 24, 2011 | 0 comments

New Experimental Welcome S...

We've created a new feature to help introduce your readers to Editz. Go to Manage Sites - > Splash -> Enable. It's very experimental but your users should only see the intro once. This should increase the amount of edits you receive.

Posted by Tim on Dec 23, 2010 | 0 comments

Copyediting Tip of the Wee...

In the February–March issue of Copyediting, Linda Lowenthal writes about one of the most common stumbling blocks for copyeditors: hyphenating compound modifiers. In that article, she quotes an argument made by Bill Walsh in a blog post on Blogslot.com against a principle I use to determine whether some compounds need to be hyphenated. More on that in a moment, but first let’s describe the...

Posted by Tim on Dec 22, 2010 | 2 comments

SEO Copywriting When Conte...

SEO content writing for your site always needs to be done under expert hands as much of your site's success depends on how impressively you can do the same. By now, you must have understood the importance of using quality content on your site – isn't it! Well, online success is in fact a combined effort of proper designing, use of the most relevant contents, proper marketing strategies and more....

Posted by Tim on Dec 21, 2010 | 1 comment

Someday, I Will Copyedit T...

Most of my coworkers here at Washington Mutual have no idea who I really am. They see me correcting spelling errors in press releases and removing excess punctuation from quarterly reports, and they think that's all there is to me. But behind these horn-rimmed glasses, there's a woman dreaming big dreams. I won't be stuck standardizing verb tenses in business documents my whole life. One day, I will...

Posted by Tim on Dec 20, 2010 | 0 comments

Is It Possible to Over Edi...

“Do you think I might be over editing?” an author asked me the other day. It was not the first time I’ve been asked. Many of us ponder that same question while going back through our manuscripts one last time, making just a few final revisions—again. At times we feel like Dorothy Parker: “I can’t write five words but that I change seven.” Oscar Wilde expressed a similar view: “I was...

Posted by Tim on Dec 17, 2010 | 0 comments

Articles and Branding: Fiv...

Are you ready to become an internet marketing expert? Are you ready for a massive conversion rate plus unlimited residual streams of income for your web-based business? Excellent! I'm here to focus your mind on the job at hand. Today you will learn how article marketing is the means to the end, and that end is PROFIT. Web marketing success happens one project at a time. The formula we're about to...

Posted by Tim on Dec 17, 2010 | 1 comment

The Compose/Comprise Debat...

Normally, I describe myself as a fair split between a prescriptivist and a descriptivist. But let me see one is comprised of in copy, and I’m all prescriptivist. Most copyeditors have a definite opinion on whether compose and comprise are interchangeable terms and whether is comprised of is acceptable. Let’s start with a couple of dictionary definitions. According to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate...

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