The idea and practice of blogging books continues to gain acceptance. Bloggers get and seek traditional publishing deals and self-publish their content. And aspiring authors, including bloggers, compose their manuscripts from scratch post by post on the Internet and successfully land publishing deals or release independently published books. Why would you want to write a […]
How to Reduce Formatting Time Using Scrivener
I write a lot of blog posts every week, so I’m always looking for ways to speed up my process. Although most of my posts don’t feature tons of graphics or charts, formatting adds time—sometimes more than I predict. I can reduce this particular time-suck if I format my posts in Scrivener using MultiMarkdown language. […]
6 Tips to Help Writers Cultivate Voice
Do you feel you have a distinct voice as a blogger and writer? If not, you need to develop one…fast! Without a distinct voice, your message disappears among the millions of other voices trying to be heard in the blogosphere. And you want your voice to be heard…and recognized…easily and quickly. Like a vocal coach, […]
How to Manage Multiple Blogs Sites
For many writers and aspiring authors, managing one blog can prove difficult. Yet, if you are a creative person, you easily could find yourself thinking about starting a second blog. Or you might already have two, but you feel like you need a third to handle best a topic that can’t find a home on […]
How to Protect Your Blog from Hackers
I had just told a group of students not to worry so much about their sites getting hacked. It had never happened to me in all the years I’d been blogging and using WordPress.org, and I’d been a blogger a long time. And then, BAM! One of my sites got hacked. And then another got […]
3 Types of About Pages Blogs Need
Your “About” page constitutes one of the most important pages on your blog. However, the type of About page your site needs depends upon the blog’s focus. Additionally, your blog might require more than one About page. No matter what type of blog you create or for what purpose, it needs a general About page. […]
4 “Book Page” Essentials for Your Blog
Your blog provides an essential tool in your book-marketing toolbox. However, to use your blog to help promote your book, you need a “book page” on your website. Not only that, your book page needs some essential elements to help it effectively sell books. What’s a book page? It’s a page on your website or […]
12 Essential Blog or Website Pages
Once you have included the essential Home page elements on your website, it’s time to turn your attention to other pages. Pages provide an enormous amount of information to your site visitors as well as an organizational and navigational tool. Don’t confuse pages with posts. Pages are used for specific purposes and send visitors away […]
11 Home-Page Essentials for Your Blog
Every blog needs essential elements that make it easy to navigate by and attractive to visitors. If you blog a book on your site, you may need additional features, but certain elements should be visible on any website’s Home page. The following 11 elements won’t create a design for your site, but they inform your […]
Is Your Blog Dead or Dying?
A blog is a living thing…until it’s dead. You determine if your blog lives or dies. The overpopulated blogosphere is home to somewhere around 150 to 170 million blogs. No one has calculated the number recently, and the manner of calculation varies considerably. But what we do know for sure is that more blogs appear […]
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