Discover How the Big Boys Reel You in With Good Headlines You want to write compelling headlines. After all, it’s your only shot at attracting the attention of people ping-ponging all over the Internet. You need to get eyeballs on your content if you are to have any chance of building your online business or blog.
The One Super Easy Thing That Can Make Your Blog Better
What If There Was One Thing You Could Do That Would Make Your Blog Easier to Read? What does every blogger want? Ok, sure, a bigger audience. But that’s the easy answer here.
What Winston Churchill Thinks About Your Long Form Content
There is a fundamental conflict in today’s world of blogging. In one corner you have the position that in order to increase your chances for favorability with the search engines you need to post long form content on your blog.
Case Study: Anatomy of a Killer Blog Post
Ever Wonder What It Takes to Craft a Killer Blog Post? Well, I’m going to break one down for you so you can see what worked wonders for one of the big boys so maybe you can swipe some of their gangster moves for your own blog. In order to do this, I’m going to […]
This 10 Minute Test Could Change the Next Year For Your Blog
Have you ever heard of the coup d’oeil? No, it isn’t a French pastry or the latest mixed martial arts-based workout. It turns out coup d’oeil may actually be pretty damn useful in making sure your blog is set to kick ass in the coming year. Ok, So What the Hell is Coup D’oeil? The […]
5 Signs Your Content is Ready to Feed the Masses
How Can You Make Sure Your Content is Consumable…and Downright Tasty? Writing is sometimes the easy part. Formatting and optimizing your content in a way that makes it ideal for your blog’s visitor can be the hard part. It takes time, requires patience, and knowledge of strategies to help pull it off well. Given the […]
If the Presidential Candidates Were Bloggers…
As bloggers, we tend to look at everything through the eyes of being a blogger. So, as the campaign trails heat up for the Presidential election, and we get to know more about the men and women fighting for the ultimate political office, I figured it would make sense to explore what they would be […]
10 Things You Can’t Do in Your Blog Sidebar
Your Blog Sidebar Remains Important, Don’t Screw it Up Most blogs follow a pretty consistent layout. When you land on the site you are typically presented with 3 major areas, the header, the main content area, and the obligatory right blog sidebar. Notice I said right sidebar. Those rebels with a left sidebar either like […]
10 Blog Post Essentials You Don’t Want to Forget
I’m sure you’ve heard this little adage of the online world before – “content is king”. Well, that’s great, but what the hell does that mean? That means in the hypercompetitive world of blogging, you need to bring your A-game when it comes to your blog posts. Here are 10 blog post essentials you need to remember […]
How to Jumpstart Your Content Creation…and Make It Last
You probably use a calendar at work to keep track of meetings, assignments, and other project deliverables. You probably keep some sort of a calendar for family events, birthdays, and other personal items. If you are a blogger, you damn sure better be keeping a content creation schedule as well. My Confession Before we proceed, […]