Linsay's a compulsive reader -- she OCD-ishly feels compelled to read every bit of text she sees -- and she hates reading boring product descriptions! To remedy this, Linsay loves to write entertaining, humorous descriptions that grab the customer's attention -- and get them to click and buy.

As you would expect from a work-at-home mom living in Phoenix, Linsay is a paragon of high style - namely, styles found on Target's 75%-off rack. Seriously, Linsay looks both fierce and fabulous when taking her her kids to school and playdates at the park. She puts this razor-sharp fashion sense (most of which has been gleaned from watching every episode of PROJECT RUNWAY, ever) to work in her articles. Make it work!

Linsay has written finance articles for the Motley Fool website. Topics range from the stock market to budgeting, definition of economic terms to investing, the role of the Federal Reserve to the different types of interest rates. Seriously, there's just no way to make this stuff funny, so there you go.

Mmmmm... donuts. Linsay likes to cook and to eat, and she loves to read and write about it, too -- in fact, she's completely obsessed with Cook's Illustrated. Most of her food-related articles center on nutrition, menu planning and organic eating and have been published on sites like Hidden Valley Ranch and AZ Central.

Linsay has written more than 1,000 gardening articles for sites such as the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate and local nurseries on topics ranging from xeriscaping to rain gardening, using native plants to choosing salt-, deer- and drought-resistant species. Her article "Extreme Shade Plants" won a $1,500 reader's choice award from Demand Media.

Linsay's green creds = She recycles! Brings her own bags to the store! Attended a super-crunchy liberal arts university! Drives a 40MPG car! Used to live in Seattle! Plus, she has written about topics like solar panels, solar ovens, pet-safe weed killers, soil and water conservation, geothermal energy, water-wise gardening, eco-friendly real estate remodels and eating/cooking/gardening with organic foods.

Health - it's important. Linsay has written articles and ghostwritten blogs on topics such as healthy eating, excercising, heart-healthy cooking, vitamins and weight loss. She's also working on an extensive e-book project that incorporates nutrition, fitness and mindfulness. Her work appears on sites like Hidden Valley Ranch, AZ Central, Livestrong and FRS .

Not many things are more exciting than air ducts, HVAC systems and cement fiber siding. Linsay knows this because she's written about all of them, including a rewrite of an entire air duct website as well as home improvement articles on topics like kitchen remodels, landscaping and foundation repair.
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Linsay can be funny, especially after she's had a few drinks -- not that she would ever drink and write, how dare you suggest it! However now that Linsay has kids, she has to keep her constant snark monologue to herself, rather than uttering it out loud and damaging their tender, fragile psyches. However, that's good news for you, because her built-up reservoir of snide observations on the human condition must have an outlet lest her head explode. And if she runs out of ideas, she just inserts the word "Santorum." Seriously, try it. Works every time!

Like everyone, Linsay believes that insurance is an inherently exciting, sexy and glamorous topic -- ahem -- but she does her best to spice it up even further. Just TRY to keep from laughing out loud while you read her writing sample about Florida's no-fault insurance law. She's also written about several aspects of the insurance industry, from personal health to auto.

Linsay has two little beasties of her own, so she knows a thing or two -- seriously, it often feels like just one or two things -- about the craziness of life with kids. She's written kid-centric articles on topics like traveling with children, mindful parenting, cooking for the family, green living with kids, and kid-friendly activities, hotels, restaurants, and attractions in various locales around the U.S. and the world. Her parenting articles are published on sites like USA Today Travel, Gerber Life and ghostwritten for a number of parenting, child therapy and child health blogs.

Before leaving the lucrative world of non-profit for the equally lucrative but even less stable (is that possible?) world of freelance writing, Linsay was a grant-writer/fundraiser for non-profits and foundations. She has written about grant writing, fund raising and non-profit organizations in various regions, as well as writing successful grant proposals (up to $750K, thank you Bill Gates), annual reports, direct mail campaigns and newsletters.

Linsay just looooves to eat but she doesn't want to weigh 800 pounds, so she attempts to eat as nutritiously as possible. She's written nutrition, diet, cooking and healthy eating articles for sites including Hidden Valley Ranch and Livestrong. Of course, she's ironically eating a donut while she writes this.

Linsay is a political junkie of the worst kind; she gets very worked up when reading about politics so has to limit her time on Salon and HuffPost. She loves to write about politics, though, and is capable of keeping her biases -- which are strong and many -- to herself, even through the word "Santorum" makes her giggle every time she hears it.

Linsay has published on topics such as remodeling to sell, short sales, foreclosures, staging, moving, commerical real estate development and real estate demographics. She's created several real estate websites from the ground up, done a massive moving company website rewrite, and has ghostwritten numerous real estate blog posts for commercial and residential Realtors. She's also written numerous Realtor and mortgage loan officer bios. She currently writes for the real estate section of SF Gate/San Francisco Chronicle with an emphasis on landscaping to sell in the Bay Area.

Though sometimes it seems like navel gazing, Linsay has ghostwritten many blog posts about... you guessed it, blogging -- or more specifically, blogging with search engine optimization intent. She's also written a number of posts about online marketing for small businesses, B2B marketing and using SEO to drive traffic.

Linsay used to work in the airline industry -- yes, she was that annoying person at the gate whose only goal in life was to make your trip hellish -- and she's traveled extensively since childhood. She's also written more than 1,000 articles and blog posts on hotels to hostels, cruises to bicycle tours, honeymoons to adventure travel, and budget to luxury travel for sites like USA Today Travel, Trails.com and Vacation Maine. Plus she's a featured travel writer -- both domestic and international -- for Yahoo, where she's on the "Hot 500" list - whatever that is.

Linsay's primary research on the impact of electronic journals on women's representation in academic publishing was recently published in the journal LIBRES. She's done extensive research on the impact of U.S. population policies on women's access to reproductive health care in the global South, as well as published research on the impact of intellectual property laws on women's access to HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries.

She's also published articles, blog posts and a couple of chapters in an e-book on sex, gender and women's issues, such as the evolving nature of women's roles and rights in education, the workplace and society; the influence of social media and the Internet on gender roles and male-female relationships; transgender issues; and global women's issues.

Plus, she's a woman, so that helps.

Most (all?) of the assignments Linsay has written for clients have involved key words. Though sometimes making keywords blend seamlessly into a piece or writing is easy, mostly she's had to figure out clever, creative ways to work in some really obscure, unrelated phrases into seemingly unrelated topics.

Linsay understands that link building is one of the most important ways to up your search engine rankings and drive traffic. As such, she incorporates links to other, **credible** sites into her work whenever it's appropriate. Deep linking is a great SEO technique, as well. Pretend the websites in the sample below are links.

Honestly, because of the nature of doing freelance work on sites like Writer Access, most of the assignments Linsay receives already have a title chosen. But for the ones that don't, Linsay totally gets how to incorporate key words, short and long-tail, into titles, subtitles, meta-descriptions and alt tags.

As a grant writer and fund raiser for non-profits and foundations, Linsay was responsible for writing annual reports.

Linsay's written more than 3,000 search engine optimized -- SEO -- articles on a wide variety of topics, from travel to gardening, Drupal to WordPress, finance to parenting, green living to real estate, SEO practices to gladiators (Seriously, gladiators). Her articles appear on sites such as Motley Fool, USA Today Travel, Hidden Valley Ranch, Vacation Maine, San Francisco Chronicle and Livestrong.

She's published academic articles on subjects such as intellectual property rights and AIDS pharmaceutical distribution in the developing world, and gendered trends in library and information science academic publishing.

Linsay's ghostwritten blog posts on topics ranging from green living to parenting, credit card reporting to residential real estate, travel to home improvement.

Linsay has ghostwritten content for three books, an e-book that explores the role of the Internet in gender roles and sexuality among today's college students; part of an academic volume of research focused on municipal economic development in the age of social media; and an e-book about nutrition, fitness, exercise and mindfulness.

Linsay has written product descriptions for online brochures. Products include sporting goods, electronics, clothing and accessories.

Linsay has researched, written and successfully submitted a variety of grants for non-profit organizations (child abuse prevention, education, services for immigrants) and environmental foundations.

Linsay has written news stories on topics ranging from international organic produce standards to politics.

Linsay has written and rewritten the content for investment, real estate, insurance, HVAC and moving company web sites.

Linsay loves to perform research and most of the more-than 3,999 articles, blog posts and other assignments she's completed have required it.

Her two master's degrees -- one in anthropology, one in library and information science -- provided her with extensive experience using both primary and secondary research sources. Her own primary research has been published in academic journals.

Because Linsay is a mom, she is used to ordering other people around all day long. As such, she has written many articles and blog posts using an authoritative -- that's just a nice word for "bossy" -- voice.

Linsay often gets requests for pieces that read as if the author was having a casual conversation with a friend. She's written many articles and blog entries in this informal style.

Linsay loves to let her inner snark out through her writing. She's written many blog posts and product descriptions that are, unlike this description, funny.

Linsay has written several articles using a journalistic style -- engaging and narrative. She loves doing research -- she has two master's degrees and her own personal research has been published in academic journals -- and enjoys combining disparate resources into accessible, readable formats.

Linsay has attempted to convince people to buy, use, try, believe in, travel to, visit or support various things, ideas, destinations and products by writing in a promotional style, incorporating calls to action, and using urgent language.

P.S. Try to guess the keyword phrase...