Yes, SEO Is Still Important For Your Blog

SEO Searching

To many of you this headline may have been scary or seemed unimportant and for many of you, SEO is another world completely. Every year we hear the rally cry that “SEO is Dead” and so on and so forth. While that fact of the matter is that SEO practices are constantly evolving and changing, [...]

Crafting Your Blog Elixer

Blog Potion

  Welcome back to Dr. Strawn’s Lab. Put on your goggles and prepare for the flames of inspiration to engulf your every, waking dream. Mwa-hahaha! (Lightning Flashes) Blogging: Art or Science? There’s a large school of thought that says a solid method and consistency leads to blogging success. On the other side of the party line [...]

Take A Blogging Sick Day

Sick Day

  Don’t blog tomorrow. You know what, I don’t mean don’t post one.  Don’t even write one. I know that sounds counterintuitive to what we’ve preached here before and may even be against the advice I give some of the clients I work with, but this is a different audience. You guys are constantly writing and may [...]

Saving The Cat

cat in tree

  I love getting writing techniques from other disciplines or applying little-known principles to the art of blogging. This next one isn’t a far stretch because it comes from the world of hollywood screenwriting, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say most of you aren’t familiar with this one. It’s a [...]

How Writers Are Taught To Stink, And How To Throw The Smell Off Forever

I know. I get it. This should be a time for serving eggnog, not swift kicks to the pants. But there are too many people who need it this holiday season. If you’re a talented, creative, funny, one-in-a-million type of writer who isn’t getting any responses on your blog, you should ask yourself whether the [...]

What To Blog About AFTER The Apocalypse

apocalypse

  December 21st came and went and the world did not end in a ball of Mayan fury. I know, you’re all as surprised as me. As writers, you of course used all your best material over the past few weeks just to make sure you’d get it in under the Mayan wire. Those unexplored [...]

Blogging Advice From The Grinch

The Blogging Grinch

As the holiday season barrels down upon us, most people are filled with joyous feelings of gratitude and generosity. Most of us revel in this month because of the weather, the presents or (let’s be honest) the time off from work. But not everyone is happy about the holiday season. Some people are Scrooges and some are [...]

The 12 Days of Christmas: Blog Remix

12 Days of Christmas

Let’s sing together….. On the first day of Blogsmas, my true love gave to me Tips for the Genesis Blog Theme. On the second day of Blogsmas, my true love gave to me Two Sucky Blogs. On the third day of Blogsmas, my true love gave to me Three Legal Tips. On the fourth day [...]

Why It’s Important to Listen to Your Blog Community

Best blogging tips

A couple of weeks back, I sent an email out to my subscribers asking about blog comment systems. The main gist of the question was centered around which option readers preferred – the WordPress native system, or third-party options like Livefyre and Disqus. The reasoning was simple – while I might provide the original content, [...]