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The most important thing to remember when writing a blog post is that you have to make it worth reading. The first step is ensuring that your content is of interest to your target audience. Your posts should contain valuable and relevant content that will interest your readers. Your posts should be formatted for easy …
When it comes to starting a blog, there are many things to think about—from choosing a platform to designing your blog to writing your first post. But one of the most important things to think about is how to get readers for your blog. Fortunately, there are many ways to promote your blog and attract …
It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. You sit down to write an article, but the words just don’t come. You might spend hours staring at a blank screen, trying to come up with something that sounds decent. This can be a major obstacle for content writers, as it can be …
Blogging is simple and fun, even for beginners. Anyone can get started, whether you want to build an online business or share your thoughts with the world. However, knowing what blogging platform best suits your needs before you begin writing is helpful. Each blogging platform has its own style and design, so this list of …
Blogging and blog outreach services are two of the most important aspects of digital marketing today, given the necessity of churning high-quality content for a brand. In the last two years, we have all seen rapid growth in the demand for captivating blog outreach strategies and professionals owing to digital transformation. Wouldn’t it be interesting …
Websites play an integral role in our lives today and they help the internet fulfil its mandate as a place to get information about individuals, companies, and governments. Since the internet launched to the public on 30 April 1993, businesses and individuals have scrambled to have a web presence. Many have been more successful than …
Blogs are important as they provide valuable information to readers who are looking for ways to solve their issues in life or answer niggling questions. And when it comes to blogging, there is a lot of information to choose from. And for marketersm authors, new bloggers, writing blogs and articles plays a significant role in …
WordPress tag clouds can be used as an alternative navigation for readers to quickly access content of the same topic on your website. The more articles your write with the same tags the bigger those words appear in your tag cloud. For instance, I seem to write a lot about WordPress and Twitter, so those …
If you own a website, SEO and Google rankings are probably very important to you. You may even spend a lot of time checking search terms related to your niche to see where you rank on Google. Is this you? You log into your Google Analytics dashboard to check your traffic stats then pop over …
Are you lost without your tweet share count? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. Third-party tweet buttons have been looking a little strange ever since Twitter removed the share count on their tweet buttons back in November 2015. Many bloggers used the tweet count as a simple way to measure the popularity of a post …
Webmasters are continually being told that page speed matters and their websites should load in 4 seconds or less. The internet is all about user experience and if your site is slow to load a potential visitor will bounce. Now this may be true of the fast food or millennial generation but for someone whose …
I deleted my Google Analytics because as a blogger, I don’t feel I need it because: I’m not selling anything so don’t need to worry about goal funnels I don’t run campaigns It doesn’t matter what country my visitors come from or what browser they use If I want to know what my visitors are …
If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’re SEO is on point but you still aren’t receiving any visits via Google, you may be blacklisted. This is what happened to my cousins. My cousins who have been blogging for a few decades became despondent and were thinking of throwing in the towel. Despite writing regularly …
I previously talked about planning your blog and getting it right first time but what was right at the start can change over time. For instance, I used to have three blogs: one dedicated to Xena, one to science fiction and fantasy and one to my random thoughts. Eventually I merged the Xena and sci-fi …
The Tweetily plugin for WordPress is a godsend for auto-sharing your evergreen content. If like me, you have content that was written long before the current social media platforms were created, a lot of your content has probably gone unshared. If that content is able to stand the test of time (evergreen), then there’s absolutely …
Seasoned bloggers will have plugins that they absolutely can’t do without but if you’re a newbie you may be wondering what plugins are and how they will benefit you. Plugins are bits of code/software that help to develop your blog beyond its original functionality. Out of the box, WordPress is still the best Content Management …
A picture paints a thousand words so the saying goes and there must be truth in it otherwise the likes of Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook wouldn’t be half as successful as they are. More and more people are in the habit of using images to depict how they are feeling. These images range from selfies …
Google Plus is the second-largest social networking site in the world. Yes it’s even bigger than Twitter but it was a ghost town for the longest time after it launched. From a business perspective, I had to create an account for the company I work for because if our customers are using it then, we …
I was thinking of changing the comment system on my blog because I really wanted a comment rating feature. The WordPress comment system doesn’t come with this feature and for some reason I really, really wanted it. CommentLuv Whilst I was looking for a WordPress vote up and down plugin I briefly tried CommentLuv although …
Guest posting/blogging on someone else’s site is a great way to draw attention to your blog by putting some of your best content on a high traffic site. Guest blogging also provides a link back to your site, depending on the terms and conditions of that high traffic site. Links back to your site is …
Most people start blogging because they enjoy writing and sharing their views and opinions. I think you have to be passionate or at least enjoy what you are writing about as the financial rewards aren’t immediate. If you thought you could quickly earn money blogging you were probably disappointed to find out that you have …
Several years ago I set up a hyperlocal blog to rant about my concerns with the goings on my local community. I had started to see a big deterioration in the high street and wanted to know if others shared my views and what if anything we could do about it. After setting up the …
I love WordPress, I really do and I love blogging but sometimes I wish I’d never pledged my life in service to the church of computers and the Internet. Is there anything worse than coming to your blog ready to write only to discover that there is a problem? Ugh! I’ve spent the morning troubleshooting …
You might not be aware of it, but how your content is formatted has a significant impact on how well it will rank in search engine results pages. Now that you’ve written all this wonderful content it’s important that it is properly formatted for search engines. Optimising your content for search engines is an important …
