Search engine optimization (SEO) is a must if you want your blog to succeed. But most writers have no idea how to put keywords to use and gain traffic. Nor do they have the time or desire to figure it out or the money to hire someone to do it for them. But SEO doesn’t […]
Why, When, and How to Use Keywords in Your Blog Posts
All writers concern themselves with word choice, but a blogger’s choice of words can mean the difference between a post being discovered by readers or being invisible to the target audience. Today, Beth Bauer (@JourneyofBethB), freelance writer, travel blogger, yoga instructor, and entrepreneur, offers advice on keywords and keyword phrases so you can increase the […]
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 […]
Simple Facts And Tips About Marketing Your Book Online
Content marketing provides one of the most—possibly the most—important way to market your book. However, it’s important to know how to produce content effectively if you want your efforts to pay off in book sales. Today Todd Worley (@ToddWorleybc), a blogger, online entrepreneur and Internet marketer, explains the essential elements of marketing your books online, […]
Great Tool to Get More eBook Sales
By Ben Murray (@akbooster) Many people think it’s easy to produce an ebook. You can just slap something up on the Amazon Kindle platform and hope for the best. It’s better, however, to do your research first. That includes finding the right niche, the correct keywords, and later, when the ebook has been released, some […]
How Often Should You Publish a Blog Post?
One of the most common question new bloggers or book bloggers ask is: How often should I publish a blog post? You may get different answers to this question, but here’s mine, which is based on my own experience and the advice I have been given by a variety of successful bloggers and professional bloggers. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Writing Your Blog Posts or Blogged Book Chapters
Once you’ve created your List of Chapters, or table of contents, and written a chapter-by-chapter synopsis, or Chapter Summaries, you are ready to break each chapter down into multiple blog posts. Blog posts tend to be short—about the length of one screen, which averages about 300 words. I like to think about these blog posts […]
