Browse through and use what you need. If you have an idea for a new kind of tool that you need, and I could build, leave a comment. Maybe I’ll put it on my to-do list.

Submit Trackbacks with a Form

Trackbacks are great, but not all blogging platforms and websites support them. Solution? Submit them from a third-party form – like the trackback-via-form tool I wrote.

You provide all the necessary information – the trackback URI and your webpage’s information – and the script sends the trackback to your target. Pretty nifty tool for publicizing websites that don’t have built in support for trackbacks.

Text Cleaner Tool: Remove Newline Characters

This is a simple tool that can come in handy for uploading articles to your own site or to article directories. If you used hard line-breaks to format the article for print or for e-mail, you’ll need to get rid of those new-lines. Just copy and paste into the form, and those newline characters will be a thing of the past.

You can access the Text Cleaner Form here.

Form to Encode Sample HTML for Display

If you want to display sample HTML for the user to see, you need to jump through a few hurdles. With this tool, you can copy and paste HTML into the textarea, hit submit, and get text that has all of the special characters escaped for you.

Copy and paste that on to your page, and it should appear as a perfect snippet of sample markup. Check out the HTML encoding form here.

The traditional publishing market is easily dominated by publishing houses, and getting published can be more about luck or connections than writing ability. Few people have the resources to support themselves while they try to break into the mainstream – so many people have to give up their dreams.

With the Internet, everyone can write as they have the time, publish what they feel is of good quality, and profit from there work.

The trick is knowing where to go to publish, and where you can actually make some money.

One good place to start is Associated Content. It focuses on non-fiction, but you can take a stab at fictional works as well. As long as you keep writing, they’ll keep paying you – not enough to make you rich, but enough to help you pay the bills and spend some extra cash.

Check out the Associated Content guide, broken up into four parts.

• Associated Content – What Is It?
• Associated Content – How Does It Work?
• Associated Content – How Much Can I Earn?
• Associated Content – Final Thoughts, Pros and Cons

At Associated Content, you can.

Great Place to Start Freelance Writing

What is Associated Content? It’s kind of like a home for wayward and beginning freelance writers.

Anyone – with a bit of writing talent and experience – can come in, publish their work, and make a few bucks. No query letters to write, few rejections to worry about. In some cases, instant gratification.

What’s not to like?

They accept a wide variety of work. Informative articles, how-to guides, and product reviews are among the most popular – but local news, fiction, and blog-like musings are also acceptable.

Get Upfront Payment for Your Work – Unlike Other Sites

One of the greatest things about AC is that you can actually get up front payment for your writing. There are plenty of places where you can publish and get a share of the ad revenue, but there are few places where it’s easy to get something published and actually get a paycheck upfront.

I signed up for Associated Content a while ago – September 2007 – and I’ve been submitting work there on and off since then. As long as I’m willing to do some work for it, AC supplies me with some extra spending cash.

Some of the more devoted content producers have earned a pretty good part time wage with their writing. AC is no get-rich-quick scheme, but for the hard worker it is a great opportunity and a good place to start carving out an income niche on the Internet.

Extra Time = Extra Money, If You Spend it Writing

It’s perfect for fledgling freelance writers, college students, stay at home parents, or anybody else that has a good deal of time spent outside the office. All it takes is an hour or less to bang out an article, submit it, and earn some cash.

So if you’re looking for a place to post your writings, head on over to Associated Content and write an article. Or, go on to the next part of this guide – Associated Content, How It Works.