Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Sample: short tail, 3.6 percent density

Massage therapy

Massage therapy can have many benefits. It is great for helping to relieve stress. It is a valuable tool in helping to recover from personal injuries. It is also a very underrated tool for improving sports performance and recovery time. Having massage therapy even once a month usually has life-changing ramifications for most people.

Massage therapy comes in as many shapes and sizes as there are people. For those who just want to relax, there is traditional Swedish Massage. For athletes, there is American Sports Massage. And for those fighting chronic personal injuries or those sustained in an auto accident, there is deep tissue massage.

Swedish massage is a slow, relaxing massage that uses mostly long, flowing strokes that help relax the central nervous system and the superficial aspects of the muscles and fascia. It is great for those just trying to unwind and for those who need general help with circulation and lymphatic movement. It is the entry-level priced massage at many establishments.

American Sports Massage is designed to help rid the body of lactic acid and cellular waste caused by repetitive exertion of muscles. It is usually characterized by a faster tempo than the Swedish variety, but is similar to Swedish in that it involves flowing “effleurage” strokes that help push waste into the kidneys and liver so that it can be excreted.

Deep Tissue massage is for helping repair injuries. It can be used as a medical treatment when one is injured, or it can be used as maintenance for athletes and others who demand more out of their bodies than the average person.

There are many other variations of massage. Many therapists offer an “integrated massage” that incorporates all three of these. For more information, contact a massage therapist in your area.

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Rates

Since I am new to ghostwriting, I will be charging low rates for awhile.  Eventually, I will raise them, but I will allow my first customers to lock in these rates for a year at the minimum.  

300 words:  $4.00

400 words:  $5.00

500 words:  $6.00

Bulk orders (10,000 words or more) will be completed at $0.01 or one penny per word.  

I know I'm charging more than our friends in countries for whom English is a second language, but I don't just sit here and churn crappy content to fit three or four articles into an hour.  A-quality work is worth paying for.  

I have read what others are doing, and I am much better than average.  There will be no non-sequiturs, run-on sentences, long paragraphs that bore the readers, or homonyms that make you look like an idiot who isn't worthy of a click-through.    

I spent three years as a teacher.  I am fully aware of what the internet has done to the average attention span.  The old days of "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS" are over.  If the reader doesn't make it to the end of your article with a positive perception of you, he or she won't click on the link in your resource box.  SEO is great, but the resource box is a source of traffic that you certainly don't want to fritter away with shoddy writing.

Sorry, no free "test articles."  There is enough on this blog for you to get an idea of the quality of my writing.  

The Gray Ghostwriter is on the air...

Hello, everyone.  This blog will serve as a blog, sample page, and business page for my own ghostwriting.  This is a career change for me, and I look forward to having a lot of fun on the way.  

In particular, I intend to ghostwrite articles and ebooks for internet marketers.  It's a great way to learn more.  For the last two or three years, I have participated in a lot of blogs and user groups.  I realized that I was spending at least three hours a day providing content for others, and I was doing it free.  

There was no pay per word, and no cut of the adwords and banner ads on the sites for which I created content: only the satisfaction of being part of a "community."  Every month or so, someone would ask me if I was a professional writer.  I would always tell them "no."  I used to tutor in the writing lab in college, but that was about as professional as I ever got. 

Then came the collapse of the economy and the internet marketing boom.  Internet Marketers made tons of money without really doing a lot, just by knowing what to do.  This didn't last long, though, because anything that is "too good to be true" eventually becomes just that: too good to be true.  The market got competitive, and many developled shortcuts.  

Two that became popular were autoblogging and spam articles packed with keyword density among severely fractured syntax.  Some "articles" didn't even have full sentences: just keywords and related keywords crammed into a box.  

Finally, Google has decided to do something about it.  They have found a way to "google-slap" autoblogs and spam.  So, once again, if someone wants to use articles or blogs for SEO, they have to provide good content.  

That is where I come in.  It's been a long time since I have "ghostwritten" A-quality term papers for people who were "more educated" than I, but the love of the language and the "irritating grammar police" gene never truly leave someone once they are there.  

And really, that is what an IM article is: a very small term paper, written to a predetermined keyword density.  Some people are content to write or purchase C-quality term papers.  But some know that their reputation, no matter what "character" they are portraying on the internet, is  worth a lot more when they come off as intelligent and able to communicate in a professional manner.  

I am here to help you do just that.