However much you love your blog’s topic, you’re not going to get far if you don’t blog consistently. If you don’t publish posts regularly, you’ll find that: You get out of the habit of writing for your blog, and feel a lot of resistance towards getting going again....
Looking for some extra blogging inspiration? Each week, I pick a bunch of my favourite blog posts to share with you. Here’s this week’s: TOP READ: How to Get WordPress.com Features on Self-Hosted WordPress Blogs, WPBeginner If you started off using WordPress.com for...
How often do you link to other blogs and websites from your own site? You might be mainly concerned with building links within your site, to your own pages – or building links from other people’s sites back to yours (whether that’s through guest posting or outreach)....
Looking for some extra blogging inspiration? Each week, I pick a bunch of my favourite blog posts to share with you. Here’s this week’s: TOP READ: 9 Unconventional Tactics To Accelerate Your Blog’s Growth, Adam Connell, BloggingPro While you might find...
Are your blog posts as well-written and effective as you want them to be? I’ve been blogging for nearly twelve years now, and I’m sure my posts still have room for improvement! These seven techniques, though, have helped me write better content – posts that...
Looking for some extra blogging inspiration? Each week, I pick a bunch of my favourite blog posts to share with you. Here’s this week’s: TOP READ: The Death of Google Search Traffic and What It Means for Marketers, Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner...
Can you start a blog for free? Absolutely. Can you keep it going – month after month – for free? Yes! While you’ll have some limitations, if you truly don’t want to pay for anything, you can still run a perfectly good blog. In fact, I’d highly recommend that you...
Confession time: I have mixed feelings about the word “blog”. That might sound a bit strange, coming from someone whose website is called BrighterBLOGging, but my reservations are: “Blog” can sound a bit technical or geeky to people who aren’t especially tech-savvy....
Where do you get typically get stuck when you’re writing a blog post? For a lot of bloggers, the first few lines of the post – and the last few – are really tough. You might have a perfectly good plan for what’s going to come later, but you just don’t know how to...
If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably been told at some point that you should “write in a conversational style.” You may be wondering what exactly this means, and whether it’s even something you’d want to do. Real life conversations, after all, have a lot...
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