Managing a growing blog: content planning
As your blog gets bigger and attracts a larger audience, content writing becomes content planning and content managing. On larger blogs, a team of authors usually works together. Blogs are written by individual authors, but these authors still have to work together. Otherwise, a blog with the exact same topic could appear twice. Or, authors could […]
Monetizing your blog (part 2)
For lots of bloggers, their biggest dream is to eventually live from the money they make with their blog. Once your audience is getting a bit bigger, you can start making money with your blog. I already discussed selling your own products and advertising as ways to monetize your blog. In this post, I will […]
Why Sites Shouldn’t Put Nofollow on their Outbound Links
I’ve wanted to blog about this for a while now, but was never quite sure what to say and how to say it. But after being directly affected by it twice recently, I decided “enough is enough”… From what I can see, more and more publishers are seemingly applying rel=”nofollow” on their outbound links, meaning […]
Post from Steve Morgan
Monetizing your blog (part 1)
Just writing a blog post every day does not pay the bills. For some bloggers, the ultimate goal for their blog is to be able to make a living out of it. But in what ways can you actually make money with your blog? In this post, we’ll talk you through a few ways of monetizing […]
How to Easily Optimize and Losslessly Compress your Images and Theme Files in WordPress
If you’ve ever run your website through the PageSpeed Insights tool to find out what you need to do to improve your page speed, you’ve probably gotten the following message: Optimize images Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data. Optimize the following images to reduce their size by [estimated percentage] Under… Read More
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How to Easily Optimize and Losslessly Compress your Images and Theme Files in WordPress
If you’ve ever run your website through the PageSpeed Insights tool to find out what you need to do to improve your page speed, you’ve probably gotten the following message: Optimize images Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data. Optimize the following images to reduce their size by [estimated percentage] Under… Read More
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Do Popups Work for Increasing List Sign-ups? (and an OptinMonster Review)
No matter how much people might say they hate pop-ups, they work when it comes to increasing subscribers to your newsletter. Period. Back in 2011, I began testing the use of pop-ups on various sites I owned. Everyone I knew claimed they found them anno…
Do Popups Work for Increasing List Sign-ups? (and an OptinMonster Review)
No matter how much people might say they hate pop-ups, they work when it comes to increasing subscribers to your newsletter. Period. Back in 2011, I began testing the use of pop-ups on various sites I owned. Everyone I knew claimed they found them anno…
The Vlogger – How to Choose the Perfect YouTube Collaboration for Your Brand
Collaborating with vloggers can happen in a variety of ways and it doesn’t need to be a simple review or product feature. This blog post details on what to look out for in a vlogger.
Post from Jodie Harris
10 tips for an awesome and SEO-friendly blog post
Writing a blog post -like all other writing- is a skill. In order to keep your reader interested, you should think about structuring your text and writing in an appealing style. You should help your readers to grasp the main idea of your post by providing headings, subheadings and clear paragraphs. If people understand and…
This post first appeared on Yoast. Whoopity Doo!
Tips for Managing a Company or Group Blog
Getting the most out of your company or group blog can be tough. This post contains a number of tips to help you achieve your goals and objectives.
Post from Samantha Noble on State of Digital
Tips for Managing a Company or Group Blog
5 Blogging Tips that will make your Blogging Life easier
Make your blogging life a lot easier by following these five tips. Structuring, Title Testing, MindMap, Evernote and Twitter are very useful, find out why here.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
5 Blogging Tips that will make your Blogging Life easier
Make Blogging Easy: FREE Blogging Webinar with Bas van den Beld
Learn how to make blogging easy for you or your business with a one hour webinar presented by Bas van den Beld. With tips which will make your life easier!
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Make Blogging Easy: FREE Blogging Webinar with Bas van den Beld
Friday Infographic: 12 Things to Do Once Your Blogpost is Done
Once you’ve written your blogpost you also need to make sure people actually see it. So what do you do when your blogpost is done?
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Friday Infographic: 12 Things to Do Once Your Blogpost is Done
Friday Infographic: The Blogconomy, Blogging Statistics on the Blog Economy
Blogging is far from dead. How far from it? An extensive overview of blogging statistics shows how alive blogging is.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Friday Infographic: The Blogconomy, Blogging Statistics on the Blog Economy
5 Easy, Text-Only Tricks To Get Your Articles Read
A compelling headline or image may get you a click, but most people don’t read much more than that. Use word-based tactics to compel them to keep reading.
Post from Arienne Holland on State of Digital
5 Easy, Text-Only Tricks To Get Your Articles Read
SES London Day 2 – Brilliant Blogging: Best Practices to Enhance Your Customer Reach #SESLon
More coverage from day 2 of SES London 2014, where Polly Prospelova covered a session with Lee Odden and our very own Bas van den Beld about blogging.
Post from Polly Pospelova on State of Digital
SES London Day 2 – Brilliant Blogging: Best Practices to Enhance Your Customer Reach #SESLon
How I Create a Strategy for a New Blog or Affiliate Site – Part 2 (Creating Your Sitemap & Wireframe)
In part one of this series – identifying the demographic – you got a good handle on who will be reading your blog based on your niche and where you social efforts should have the most impact (#protip – you can begin working on building a social following long before you launch your new site […]
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How I Create a Strategy for a New Blog or Affiliate Site – Part 1 (Identifying the Demographic)
In prior posts we’ve discussed how to come up with a niche idea, how to research a niche before entering it and how to find the best affiliate programs within a niche to promote. Now it’s time to build and promote that site, right? Wrong. Now it’s time to create a strategy for how you […]
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Organize Content Development with the (Free) Editorial Calendar Plugin
I certainly wasn’t looking for an editorial calendar for WordPress because it never occurred to me that one would exist. But somehow I stumbled across the WordPress Editorial Calendar Plugin (free). And I’m loving this plugin as an individual blogger. But before I get into the details of this particular plugin and how I use […]
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