CategoryCreating Content

How to Use a Magazine to Improve Your Blog Today’s episode is about how to use a magazine to help you improve your blog – using ‘old media’ to help you improve your approach to ‘new media’. As well as being simple – and potentially a bit of fun – looking ...more

How to Write a Post That Contains a Call to Action Today’s episode is about how to ask your readers to go beyond just reading your blog and to DO something. Readers are often ready and willing, if only you asked. ‘If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. ...more

How to Write an Opinion Post to Draw People in to Your Blog Today’s episode is all about how you can write an opinion post to draw people in to engage with you and your blog. Your opinion is something your readers actually want to know and it has the ...more

How to Create a Page That Propels People Deep Within Your Blog Today’s episode is all about how you can create a page or post that propels (or sneezes) people deep within your blog to read your archived blog posts. #4 by Fábio Sneeze on 500px In this Episode You ...more

How to Improve Your Blog by Solving a Reader’s Problem Today’s episode is a writing challenge and is all about how you can spot and solve your readers’ problems, which is a powerful way to grow your audience. Do it well and you’ll make a positive impression on people, create a ...more

How to Update Key Pages or Hot Posts on Your Blog If you’ve been blogging for even just a little while you’ve probably got pages or posts on your blog that need an update. If this is the case those pages could be causing embarrassment, frustrating your readers or even ...more

How to Create an Editorial Calendar for your Blog Yesterday I challenged you to come up with at least 10 blog post ideas for your blog. Today we’re going to take those ideas and begin to form an editorial calendar around them – specifically we’re looking to create an editorial ...more

How to Come Up with Hundreds of Blog Post Ideas for Your Blog Day 11 is one of my favourite days and one that is going to pay off over the next few days and weeks of blogging. It’s all about answering that question ‘what should I blog about today???’ ...more

Writing Challenge: Create a Link Post for Your Blog It’s time for another writing challenge – today is all about creating a ‘link post’ for your blog. Link posts used to be the bread and butter of bloggers but have become less popular over the last couple of years – ...more