I encourage most writers to blog. Most bloggers find themselves concerned with search engine optimization (SEO). Anyone writing for or on the Internet knows they want their writing easily found by search engines—and, therefore, by Internet users looking for the information in their blogs. However, Duane Forrester of Microsoft says most bloggers can use basic SEO skills and find some…
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Someone Needs to Hear Your Story
Ever wonder if you should write down and publish your personal story (and then go out and speak about it)? Here’s a thought for you that may make you want to run off and begin writing and speaking about your personal experience or writing whatever stories you have running around in your head. A Hasidic teaching says everyone should tell…
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Setting Your Writing Targets For 2011
On December 31st most people like to go out to parties or do something festive. I like to hunker down and think about the past year and the coming year. I like to set goals and intentions. I think of this as setting targets and figuring out how I’ll hit a bull’s eye in the coming year. I don’t make…
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Promote Your Blog with Links
Yesterday I wrote about why I thought entering a blog contest in your niche was a good idea. I said it helped increased traffic to your blog and also offered a way to increase your blog’s exposure while building author platform. One more reason exists: Entering a contest affords you an opportunity to create one–or possibly more–links to your blog….
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Using Contests to Generate Interest in Your Blog
Hopefully most of you are blogging either to promote yourself as writers, to promote your books, to blog a book, or to simply hone your writing. I blog a lot; I have five blogs. Every once in a while my dance-related blog, My Son Can Dance, gets voted “best” in its category. The two times this has happened it has…
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