Browsing Tag 'Blogging'
You Don’t Have to Write That Much It’s better to write one sentence than a huge article. If I were Strunk and/or White, I’d stop there, but it’s worth repeating for new writers and bloggers: avoid the instinct to catalog and obsessively cover the subject. Get in there, write the most interesting part as quickly [...]
Bloggers have it worst because even when people click on a link through a Facebook and decide to share a blog post, they don’t share or interact on the Facebook post — they do it directly from the blog. So the Facebook post gets no interaction and therefore Facebook views it as irrelevant. Before I [...]
Is your blog suitable for a mobile device? In 2012, mobile users spent 63% more time on their devices accessing mobile websites and apps and this is set to increase.. An increasing number of your readers will access your blog from their mobile devices. Smartphone usage will continue to increase and don’t be surprised if [...]
Just an update to the little (OK, big) issue I had trying to run the WordPress Send to Kindle plugin I mentioned earlier in today’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday. In short, the Send to Kindle feature didn’t work here on the Wordpreneur blog, and trying to use it would simply produce an operation timeout error message. [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Sorry, busy week, so only writing about one tool today. And its something I’ve been holding for later (read on for why), but again, busy, and although I have a nice sized list of potential Wordpreneur Tools to look at, they’re still to look at. This one, [...]
Having the ability to produce blog posts quickly can have a huge effect on your freelance earnings. It can be the difference between your freelance blogging being a part time ‘hobby’ or a full time living… The question of speed is of course a subjective one, but I would say that if you can knock [...]
With ‘content marketing’ being the indisputable SEO buzzword of 2012, we can expect 2013 to see an onslaught of marketers trying to build links with guest posts. The growth in this market will cause some sites to lower their guest posting standards, others to raise them, and still more to stop accepting them altogether. Google [...]
It all started when I began marketing Alpiste Seeds for sale online and featured an article about where to buy them on the Spanish health and nutrition blog. As people found the page, they began to ask questions in the comments section. Without realizing it, they were adding to my on-page search engine optimization efforts. [...]
While there are currently tens of millions of blogs worldwide, close to 60 million powered by WordPress alone, many bloggers are not yet monetizing their sites. If you’re one of these bloggers, a good place to start is with affiliate marketing: directing readers to a product or service in exchange for a commission on the [...]
It’s crystal clear how beneficial a blogging alliance would be for you: you can grab your partner’s traffic, social followers and social signals in return for letting him or her borrow yours. Sounds like a treat, doesn’t it? But much like trying to produce a mega-successful content marketing campaign, most of us can see the benefits in [...]
[B]logs are your home base; they are at the center of your content marketing system. Whether you’re a small business or a Fortune 100 company, blogs should be at the heart of your content marketing because blogs fuel social media, search optimization and the sales process… Blogs are owned media. Your blog content is yours. [...]
Jakob Nielson’s seminal web usability study from 1997 showed that 79% of web users scan rather than read. Think about how you use the web. You’re in search of information. And if you don’t find it on the page you’re visiting, you click away and look elsewhere… Make it snappy To write successfully for the [...]
Add Slate to the list of news organizations with a sudden interest in getting online readers to contribute some cash rather than leaving the whole thing to advertisers. The online magazine has been conducting a survey to gauge support for a subscription-based premium membership program. Membership would include such perks as ‘access to Slate personalities’… [...]
