Blog tips for a better blog
This is my blog - where I love to encourage bloggers. My hope is that you'll leave this blog with more than you came with; you'll learn something new or will at least be engaged and entertained.
In addition to teaching others how to blog, I'm also a college instructor who teaches students how to write for mass media.
I've guest posted on Problogger, DIYThemes and many others. I'm also the author of Highly Favored, a blog devoted to Christian inspiration & encouragement. Please follow me on twitter @weblogbetter or on Facebook.
When I was still in college, I remember searching my college’s catalogue for the perfect course that might help me learn to blog. The closest I ever got was an advanced writing course taught by an instructor who briefly talked about a friend she knew who blogged as a way to keep in touch with…
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Your video description is one of the most important parts of your video marketing process. This is how people will find your video and one of the determining factors of whether or not they want to watch your video. People will look at titles, thumbnails and the description to help them know if the video…
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More than half of the people browsing the World Wide Web does not use English as their native language. This is why translating your website to cater to a foreign audience is one of the best ways to help your business or organization compete on a global scale. By making your website more accessible to…
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The year 2012 has taken a revolutionary turn in the world of SEO. Not only did Google exercise the powers of Panda and Penguin algorithms, it was also the year social media went into full bloom. Almost every brand crossed over to the realm of social media, looking for real audiences that they can turn…
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Do you remember the times when you’d only see banner advertisements on the websites? Most ads were around 720×90 px – that was in the 90s! Since the new millennium began, the matter has changed- people spend more time on the internet; companies spend more money on promotions and all the possible methods of advertising…
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Blog traffic is one of the most sought out aspects of succeeding in blogging. It appears on the To-do list of every blogger: generate blog traffic every day. Driving traffic is the key to gaining more subscribers and the readers that will interact with your content. But, “I am having a hard time generating enough…
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Do you remember word-of-mouth advertising? By all accounts, this form of advertising seems relegated to the era of black and white TVs, door-to-door Tupperware salesmen and pants that sit way too high on the waist. Unlike chest-high pants, word-of-mouth advertising is still alive and well, and Facebook check-ins uses this exact principle to generate business…
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Have you ever had a full-blown panic attack because you could not find the email you were looking for? Have you spent an hour in search of an email attachment because you are not sure if you have sent it or not? You are not alone. Disorganization of an email inbox is a common occurrence,…
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In an increasingly jam-packed virtual world, carving out a niche for a newly launched website is a challenging task. The domain name of the website plays an important role in popularizing a website before the targeted customers so choosing a catchy yet uncomplicated domain name is one of the primary concerns of the webmaster as…
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I am not the only person who needs an intervention when it comes to Pinterest. Growing steadily to become one of the most popular social media sites on the web, it has a very loyal user base. Most of us spend time on the site every single day, and if you are like me you…
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Writing is one of those professions that leave little room for error. While our small grammatical errors might not kill someone (thankfully), they can be harmful in the sense that we’ve been paid to know the correct time to use a semicolon. If we come up short, we have disgruntled clients demanding refunds. There’s a…
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At this point, most of us shop at Amazon, or sites like it, from time to time. Many of us shop at Amazon on a regular basis. We use it to buy clothes, books, kitchen tools, cleaning products, even furniture. Have you ever noticed that when you’re shopping on Amazon, it shows different items that…
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You don’t have to be tech savvy to create your own logo. There are DIY sites around the web that have simplified the logo creation process for business owners who need an inexpensive logo, but don’t have the tech skills or visual design skills to create their own. Logaster can help. It’s a cool site…
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