Blogging Backgrounders
How to Fill Your Blog’s Entire Editorial Calendar for a Year
When you first start blogging, you really want to start off on the right foot and get the most from the energy you put into your blog. You take the time to investigate what platform will work for you, which plugins will help you create the visitors’ experience – but you when it comes to putting fingers to keyboard you get stuck. Yup, not everyone is a natural content creator, although with a bit of discipline and practice you can become one.
The Definitive Guide to Online Reputation Management
There are a lot of misconceptions about online reputation management. In this guide, I’m going to explain the role of online reputation management in today’s business and media landscape.
Blogging: What I Wish I Knew When I Started
Before starting a blog, most prospective bloggers believe that it’s all about the writing. Yet the reality is that writing is only a small part of the total effort required for a successful blog.
10 Websites to Find Free Images for Your Blog
Visitors want to be entertained visually. Adding images to your content will certainly make a difference in the experience of your audience, while increasing your chance of being found in search engine results.
Better Blogging: How to Use Video in Agriculture
One great way to create variety in your blogging efforts is to utilize videos. Video can be especially valuable in agriculture when we’re trying to share a message.
What Are Tags and Categories?
For blogs, categories and tags are single words or simple phrases that are used to describe the type of blog post (news, sports, opinion), what a post is about (tractors, precision farming, corps), or possibly to highlight a theme of a post (spring planting, bad weather).
50 Qualities of the Best Business Blogs in the World
There are certain actions and qualities that one must take in order to rise above the chatter and receive the love from their readers, their industry, and the other master of all—Google. So that’s what this post is about, 50 of the most essential qualities of some of the greatest business blogs in the world.
20 Blog How-Tos
Here’s a blogging 911 to give you the answers to the top-twenty, distressing, blogging questions.
The Ultimate WordPress Cheat Sheet
Messing around in WordPress is a pure knowledge thing. It’s the premiere blogging platform for blog owners, and it’s one of the easiest ways to set up your own blog whether you want to monetize it or just share the wondrous magic of your inner world.
Blogging isn’t Dead, It’s Evolving
There’s been a bit of commentary and opinion in recent weeks that blogging (meaning, written content longer than just a paragraph or two) as we know it is dying or even already dead when compared to the rise of Facebook and Twitter.
How to Write Magnetic Headlines
Your headline is the first, and perhaps only, impression you make on a prospective reader. Without a compelling promise that turns a browser into a reader, the rest of your words may as well not even exist.
How to Respond to Comments on Your Company Blog
Over the past couple years, I’ve had several conversations around how to manage comments — not just the workflow with respect to approving, reading, responding — but also the perspective necessary to have thick enough skin to distance yourself a bit from the sentiment or opinion being expressed.
Blogging Rising
Blogging continues to grow in spite of all the naysayers who have thought it wouldn’t “go anywhere.” In fact, I’d dare say that many people who read online content don’t even know they’re on a blog and don’t really care.
