Blogging isn’t like the movie Field of Dreams. If you build it—your blog, they—your readers—will not come. You need a plan to attract a blog audience, and you must work that plan. In this post, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, offers several audience-building strategies that work…and work well. When […]
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 […]
Blog Post Length Revisited
What’s the best blog post length? I get asked this question over and over again, and my answers stay basically the same despite the changing content marketing world. I recently spoke on a marketing panel at a writing conference. All the speakers said the same thing: It’s important to have a blog and to publish […]
How to Build An Authority Blog Around Your Books
While you as an author and blogger need to have authority—or expert status—your blog also needs authority. Blog authority helps your site rise up in search engine results pages and become easily discoverable by your ideal readers. Today Todd Worley (@ToddWorleybc), a blogger, online entrepreneur and Internet marketer, explains the many ways to build authority […]
Why You MUST Publish Posts Often and Consistently
For your blog to succeed—to gain traction on the Internet or in search engines and to gather a loyal following of readers, you must publish posts often and consistently. Don’t blog if you want an easy or fast way to make money, gain expert status, or land a book deal. Blogging takes patience and hard […]
How Writers and Bloggers Can Use the Rule of 5 To Become Discoverable
Whether you are an aspiring author or published author or simply a blogger, discoverability remains the watchword. That means you have to find ways to make yourself and your work easily found on the Internet. How do you do that? Lot’s of exerts have written articles and blog posts about how to improve discoverability or […]
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 […]