Today, you have about seven seconds to get someone to stick around long enough to read your blog post. That’s why your post title is so important. In this post, professional writer Jodi Webb (@wordsbywebb) discusses the fine balance between creative and boring titles and how to write ones that make a visitor want to […]
Should You Write Short or Long Posts when Blogging a Book?
Are short or long blog posts best? Good question. The online world changes constantly. More often than not, Google dictates those changes, including what it takes to get your site into the coveted #1 Search Engine Results Page (SERP) spot. What doesn’t change is the impact blog post length and publishing frequency have in achieving […]
Start with a Bang: How to Begin Your Next Blog Post
How you start your blog posts determines if a visitor to your site stays around to read the entire piece or leaves seconds after arriving. Getting readers to stick around is important if you want a successful blog and, potentially, a book deal. That’s why today freelance writer and ghostwriter Dan Kenitz (@buildwithwords) provides tips […]
Three Tips for Formatting Your Next Post (So It Gets Read)
Bloggers—especially bloggers who are or aspire to be authors—often make the mistake of focusing on writing over post formatting. Even if they produce excellent and valuable content, poor formatting can cause their posts to go unread. In this post, freelance writer and ghostwriter Dan Kenitz (@buildwithwords) provides three formatting tips to help bloggers, writers, and […]
How to Identify the Posts Your Competition Isn’t Writing
You want to drive traffic to your site by becoming highly discoverable via Google and other search engines. But to do that, you need to do more than focus on keywords or keyword phrases. In this post, freelance writer and ghostwriter Dan Kenitz (@buildwithwords) explains how to identify the posts you need to write to […]
The Best Ways to Use Anchor Texts for Better Blog SEO
Writers who become bloggers don’t always consider search engine optimization (SEO) when they write blog posts. If you are one of those writers who writes posts and hopes they will attract readers, its time to pay attention and begin practicing some basic SEO strategies. Today, freelance writer and ghostwriter Sanjay Bojan (@sanjaybojan) provides some basic […]
Why Quality Content is Worth More than Just a Green Light
Bloggers know they need to improve the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of their posts and pages. To accomplish this feat, they often look for a green light from a popular plug-in. Today, Lee-James Bovey (@LJBovey) offers a different view on getting automated approval for your SEO efforts. If you are a blogger or content writer […]
How to Engage Your Whole Brain When You Blog
Are you right brained or left brained or whole brained? Do you have any idea what that even means? As a blogger and writer, your success does not depend on upon the side of you brain you use most. However, it’s possible that your ability to use both sides of your brain—even at the same […]
How to Enter Blogger’s Paradise
You started a blog, and thought that would send you to blogger’s paradise. You imagined that blogging would quickly help you earn an income, create visibility for yourself and your work, and even attract an agent and a book deal. But now you are in blogger’s hell. Your blog feels like the bane of your […]
5 Alternative Ways to Create Writing and Blogging Success
How do you blog a book or become a successful blogger? This question typically is met with practical and tactical advice. But there are other ways to help yourself become an author and produce a high-trafficked blog. And they have little to do with publishing frequency, SEO, promotion, and copywriting. In my new book, Creative […]
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