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 [...]

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 [...]

How To Prevent Content Creation Burnout

blogging burnout

It takes some bloggers a long time to realize that creating content every single day isn’t necessarily the “make or break” of their blog. Usually, by the time they realize it – they are already experiencing burnout. It is interesting to think and read about it if you are a beginner, because you are sure [...]

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 [...]

The (New) ABC’s of Blogging

Willy Wonka Blog Meme

Recently my wife and I joined Netflix and have been able to stream movies and TV shows through our Wii console (which is an activity next to heavenly for me). One of the shows I’ve been re-watching from the beginning is 30 Rock.  It’s quickly rocketed into one of my favorite shows.  It reminds me of [...]