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My Site Needs Content, but What Should I Write About?
You’re working with a web design company, trying to add content for SEO purposes, or to better explain what your business does. Your designer explains how important quality content is, and tells you how many pages you’ll need to get the best results.
Read moreAre You Writing Blog Posts or Promotional Content? Does it Matter?
When I think of a blog post, I think of an exchange of information. “I know something, and I want to share it with you.”
Read more15 Copywriting Tips for Non-Writers
Not everyone who writes considers themselves a writer. Sometimes, writing is just a means to an end, especially when it comes to website content. That doesn’t mean the people visiting your website need to know that. Here are fifteen quick and easy ways to make your website copy stand out.
Read moreHow to Write Jazzy Blog Posts
There are millions of blogs on the internet, and probably thousands of bloggers that focus on your topic. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you need to make sure your blog posts shine.
Read moreProtecting Your Content
Last week, the Editor in Chief of Cooks Source Magazine was caught stealing internet content and reusing it in her magazine, without notifying the original writer. The public response was overwhelming, and Cooks Source will be cleaning up this mess for a long time (assuming the magazine survives).
Read morePromoting Older Content
Remember that blog post you wrote six months ago? The one that you were so proud of, but that hasn’t seen any real traffic since a week after it was published? You don’t have to leave it to gather dust in your archives. Highlighting old blog posts not only give your old content a new [...]
Read moreUsing Blog Tags and Categories to Improve SEO
When you write a blog post, you have the opportunity to label that post with different tags and place it into a category with similar posts. While using tags and categories make it easier for blog visitors to find the posts they’re interested in, it’s also a great way to get in some extra SEO [...]
Read moreSEO Takes More than On-Site Optimization
When I say SEO, you probably think of hours spent researching keywords, tweaking your website, analyzing the results, and tweaking your site again. That’s only about half of the picture. To make the most of your website, you need inbound links, relevancy and traffic, which means that you actually need to get out there and [...]
Read moreWhat to Write About When You Have Nothing to Say
The hardest thing about blogging is knowing what to blog about. You want a fresh idea, or a new take on an old idea, and with the number of bloggers already out there, this can be a huge challenge. Sign up for subscriptions to blogs that cover similar topics. While you don’t want to steal [...]
Read more10 WordPress Plugins You Need to be Using
WordPress is one of the most complete, and user-friendly, content management systems for websites. It’s also the most popular. If you’re running your website on WordPress, no doubt you’ve noticed that there are thousands of plug-ns (website add-ons) that can change and improve what your site is capable of. Out of all of the available [...]
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