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7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic
Here’s a really good question: what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? It’s a question every blogger asks themselves. I want to answer it here by outlining 7 content methods that seem to work wonders on social media while also generating a lot of ...more
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Give Your Readers Room to Participate in Your Blog
One compositional technique that I teach in Digital Photography is to give your portrait subject space to look into when framing your shot. You can see it in the image below – but the basic principle is that if your subject is looking to one side of the frame – ...more
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How Longer Feature Posts Improved My Blog
Today Leo Babauta from Zen Habits shares what he did in 2007 that improved his blog the most. Improvement on Zen Habits has come in many small doses this year, but if I had to pick one thing it would be my transition to longer, less-frequent “feature” posts that go ...more
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How to Maximize the Benefits of Guest Posting
Publishing guest posts on popular blogs is a tried and tested way to get inbound links and traffic. There are certain things you can do to make this experience even more rewarding. In this post, I want to share a number of methods you can use to maximize the rewards ...more
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Stuck Writing a Post? – Change Your Writing Medium
Do you ever have an idea for a post that you just can’t get out? You know the gist of what you want to say – but the words to express it clearly just don’t come. How do you get it out? LifeClever has a writing tip that I’d not ...more
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How to Develop the Habit of Writing Posts in Advance
Do you write and publish your posts in one sitting? Many bloggers do. Unfortunately, this kind of posting habit presents a number of problems. For example: You won’t be able to develop a consistent posting rhythm. Your publish times will vary depending on whether you’re inspired, whether you have writer’s ...more
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Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind Mapping
Yesterday I wrote a post on keeping the momentum going on your blog by building on previous posts. Today I want to extend that post (you knew I would) with a practical exercise that any blogger with a blog can do. It’s something that can take as little as 10 ...more
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How to Keep Momentum Going By Building on Previous Posts
You slave over the writing of a great new post for your blog, you’ve researched, hypothesized, edited, spell checked, polished and made it look all pretty…. You Hit Publish…. What happens now? Are you done? Do you move on and push the post idea from your mind – searching for ...more
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Prolific Blogging: Five Methods I Swear By
I did an interesting calculation today. I worked out that I’d written 107 posts at my own blog, plus 36 posts at other blogs, for a total of 143 (mostly) long posts, produced across four months. The maths proves that I’m a prolific blogger. Certainly not the most prolific, but ...more
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