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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tell Stories No One Can Steal

Stealing Stories

A while ago I wrote a post titled Don’t Puke On My Blog, Bro all about the tendency of some bloggers to engage in what I called Blog Puke. Basically, Blog Puking is when someone reads a post (or multiple posts) they like and instead of letting it digest and personalizing it, they simply vomit it [...]

See The Rats For The Fleas

Blog Details

It is commonly believed that The Black Plague was carried and started by rats that entered cities across England and Europe.  The truth is that the fleas on the rats actually carried the disease. It’s so easy to look at a situation, see something we are already afraid of and place the blame there. How [...]

Let’s Talk About Blogging Creativity 101

Rocket Draw

A question I get asked a lot by my students is “How can I be more creative?” Creativity is a hard thing to nail down, mainly because it appears in so many different ways for so many different people. Both Van Gogh and Christopher Nolan are creative, but in very different ways. Do you think their [...]

Warning: This Blog Contains Me

Kitten sees lion in mirror

Who are you? – Roger Daltrey When it comes to blogging, there are two fundamental things that must be known: We must know who you are; and, YOU must know who you are. Whereas the first one in the list is very important (SEO, content marketing and all that jazz), I’d like to focus on [...]