Is Your Blog Post An Essay or A Novel?

Is your blog post a novel

What is your blog post? I will give you two options: An essay or a novel. Which one do you want your blog post to be compared to? To make things easier for you, I will describe it a little more: An Informative Essay and an Interesting Novel. Key: Take a close look at the [...]

Stop Waiting For People to Find You. Go and Find Them.

Stop Waiting For People to Find You. Go and Find Them.

"little people – happy dog, angry boy" by m kasahara Have you ever looked at other blogs and wondered how they get loads of comments when your blog doesn’t? Have you ever published a post and wondered why nobody showed up to read it? People don’t just find your blog automatically. You need to let [...]

How to Write for Marketing Campaigns: Think Like a Product Person

How to Write for Marketing Campaigns: Think Like a Product Person

"Old Jaguar E-type sports car: front view (close)" by Chris Devers Today’s post is a guest post by Murray Newlands, founder of Influence People and author of Content Monetization. A lot of bloggers are great writers. They’re very skilled and could be full-time professional writers, but they’re missing one key element: They aren’t very good [...]

Celebrate Matt Mullenweg’s Birthday by Donating Water

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, turned 28 two weeks ago. It’s been a busy year for Matt. Three major WordPress versions were released, he switched back to using a Mac after 8 years on Windows, and he travelled 190,000 miles over 245 days. Even though two weeks have gone by, it’s not too late to [...]

5 Quick Tips for Google Plus That I Didn’t Know Last Week

5 Quick Tips for Google Plus That I Didn

"Chicago Circle" by ifmuth Google Plus is evolving at an incredible rate. As a result, things change quite frequently. Here are five quick tips I’ve learned that I didn’t know last week. 1. Keep Track of Who Added You I recently noticed that the “Incoming” tab had disappeared from Google Plus. This tab was useful [...]

WordPress Plugin Releases for 1/22

New plugins Pretty Pinterest Pins allows you to display thumbnails and links to your latest Pins from Pinterest in your sidebar. Stop Censorship Ribbon will place a black ribbon with the words “Stop Censorship” in the top right corner of your website, linking to the American Censorship website. Updated plugins Fast Secure Contact Form lets [...]

5 Tips to Keeping Your Blog Visitors Hostage

Blog visitor hostage

We all know how easy it is to build a WordPress website from scratch but what can you do when you start getting real blog visitors but they do not seem to stick around. Wouldn’t you love to grab these visitors and stop them from leaving your blog? Of course you would. Here are a [...]

Seven Links for Sunday #6

Seven Links for Sunday #6

"Link" by Aarthi Welcome to Seven Links for Sunday, a weekly post where I share some of the blogging and social media links I found interesting or useful this week. Changes This week I’ve decided to use a simpler format for the post. Quotes aren’t really necessary as for the most part, the post title [...]

PSD to WordPress Services: Convert your Design to WordPress

A few years back a new breed of coding services appeared offering to convert your designs from a .PSD file to HTML and CSS for a reasonable fee. I have used them before myself in the past when my work-load was high and I had good results – the code was clean and well optimised. [...]

WordPress Theme Releases for 1/20

Pronto is a very minimal grid style masonry theme. Spring Wish is bright, optimistic and reminiscent of spring.