Writing Posts/Chapters Archives - Page 11 of 12

February 1, 2011 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Learn First-Hand How to Go from Blog to Book

I discovered two superb posts about how one blogger’s blog became a book. Now, Gina Trapani, author of Lifehacker, didn’t set out to blog a book, but she offers some great information–not unlike the information I’ve offered–on how to blog a book. She also describes the process she went through to take make her blog […]

December 16, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

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 […]

December 2, 2010 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Content is King and Key

I’ve heard it said that content is king. I’ve also heard it said that content is key. The two sentences mean the same thing. If you want to produce a blog people will read–one that will generate traffic and get the attention of a publisher sometime down the road (or simply gain you readers when […]

May 20, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Keeping Up with Your Blog When Using the Scheduling Option

As you’ve probably realized by now, scheduling your posts offers a definite advantage for the busy blogger or aspiring author. Now that you know how to schedule your blogs, however, you are at risk. You may walk away from your blog all week and pay no attention to what’s going on there. That’s a definite […]

May 18, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Schedule Your Blog Posts to Publish Later

As I mentioned in my last post, most blogging software offers you a way to write in advance and publish your posts on a schedule. This allows you to write your posts for a whole week or a month in one sitting (or two or three) and schedule them to publish whenever you want. For […]

May 16, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Blogging on a Schedule or Scheduling Your Posts

As I said earlier, writers write. Yet, when I suggest to those aspiring writers who need to build platform that they create a blog, most tell me they don’t want to blog because they don’t want to the pressure of needing to write a post every day or several times a week. It’s just […]

May 12, 2010 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Writing for the Internet: Increase Ranking and Readers with Links

As you write your blog posts, you will want to consider providing links to resources you might find on the Internet. This also helps your ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs). Actually, everything you do that involves linking into or out of your blog helps SEO your blog. For this reason, you’ll want to […]

May 11, 2010 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Writing for the Internet: Compare Keywords

I am by no means an expert in search engine optimization (SEO). I know very little about SEO, and evaluating competitive keywords. I do know a little. Maybe I know more than you. So, let me tell you what little I know. One of the best free places to go to compare key words remains […]

May 10, 2010 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

Writing for the Internet: Use Keywords in Your Posts

One of the most important things to do when you write copy for the Internet involves using keywords. Keywords and keyword phrases are the words on your site that match search terms. Search terms are the words and phrases that people type into the search forms of search engines, like Google or Yahoo. It’s a […]

May 8, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Writing for the Internet: Be Conversational

Okay! Let’s start writing that book! Writing a blog tends to be a bit different than writing a “formal” book exactly because blogging lends itself to informality. When blogging you can write as if composing an email to a friend. Blogs began as live journals, and many people considered them streams of consciousness—simply unedited thoughts […]