If you want to gain more traffic to your blog and blogged book, you must employ digital marketing tactics. In this guest post, Murris Johnson IV (@NomvoSocial), who has worked in the online marketing industry for over a decade, offers a solid review of your digital marketing options and explains why they are important. When […]
5 Ways All Bloggers can Improve Blog Post SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plays an enormous role in helping you garner readers for your blog and blogged book. However, search engines, like Google, constantly change their algorithms. Reader preferences change quickly and often as well. That’s why it’s important to know something about current SEO trends. In this guest post, Mike Dane (@mikedane7) a […]
What’s the Optimal Length for a Blog Post?
Both newbie and seasoned bloggers often ask the same question: “What’s the optimal length of a blog post?” No definitive answer exists. In fact, the answer seems to change from year to year. Experts continue to pose new opinions and data to help you decide on the best post length for your blog. In the […]
When to Take a Left Turn on Your Blog to Find Success
Guest post by Bryan Cohen It was spring 2009 when my blog, Build Creative Writing Ideas, really started to take off. I’d been in a rough place the previous year productivity-wise, and the only thing that got me out of it was listening to and reading personal development and self-help books. I knew I wanted […]
How to Write Search-Engine Friendly Blog Posts
You can find a ton of information online and off about how to “search engine optimize” (SEO) your blog posts. Yet, Google constantly changes its algorithms and rules making it difficult to know if you are turning out search-engine friendly content or not. If you aren’t a techie or simply want to blog or to […]
What Is SEO and Should Book Bloggers Care About It?
Bloggers and website owners seem to obsess about search engine optimization (SEO). As a writer or book blogger, you might be wondering, “What the heck is SEO and should I even care about it?” You do need to know what SEO is and care about it to some extent, but if you write a good […]
How a Blog Creates Visibility for Your Book
One of the primary reasons to blog a book revolves around creating visibility for you and your book. You want lots of potential readers to easily “see” you, or find you, on line so they will purchase your book. How do you create this visibility? Here are the three primary ways to increase visibility for […]
10 Ways to Create Posts Without Worry About SEO and Keywords
I coach lots of bloggers and writers who would like to (1) start blogging, (2) develop better blogs or (3) blog a book to make sure they get discovered by a literary agent or publisher. In each of these cases they inevitably inquire how to search engine optimize (SEO) their blog and employ keywords for […]
Why You Need Passion to Succeed at Blogging Your Book
Most bloggers find themselves concerned with search engine optimization (SEO). Anyone writing for or on the Internet knows they want their writing easily found by search engines—and, therefore, by Internet users looking for the information in their blogs. However, Duane Forrester of Microsoft says most bloggers can use basic SEO skills and find some success […]
Authenticity Leads to Great Content and SEO
Here’s the thing about search engine optimization (SEO): It really comes down to great content. You can search out the best keywords for your topic and fill your content with those words, but at a certain point it becomes obvious to the search engines what you are doing. They don’t like that tactic. Yes, keywords […]
