Men With Pens

JULY 29, 2012

But writing isn’t rocket science … and there are a few simple writing tricks you can use to write blog posts that are much more powerful and engaging. Before we get into those 9 tricks, though, here’s the why behind it: Fully-engaged readers are more likely to remember your blog posts. Does the second sound a bit stilted to you?

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

After all, the advice made sense: Have a blogging schedule, and stick to it. Write blog posts and publish them according to this rigid schedule and provide readers with a steady stream of constant blog posts. We were all new to this blogging thing. I know, because that’s what happened to my blog. I was wrong too.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2012

It’s been done tens of millions of time: a blog post is written. Because of the glut of so many posts, blog posts have become boring. I’m looking for those killer blog posts. Only 20% of people ever click on your title, and competition for readers’ eyes is stiff in the blogging world. Someone writes an inspiring poem.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 9, 2011

Reading these will dramatically help you improve your blog. Within two weeks of its launch, Social Media Examiner joined the ranks of Technorati’s Top 100 Small Business Blogs and remains in the Top 10. You can also use the book as a case study on how to create a popular, profitable blog. Until I read this book.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 13, 2013

So your guest post pitch has been accepted by THE blog you’ve always dreamed of posting for. You’ve learned the craft, improved your skills and honed your style on your own blog. Post by Marya Jan Marya Jan is a blogging coach for solopreneurs, small business owners and start-ups. You knew the moment [.]

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Men With Pens

JULY 8, 2012

The other day a friend mentioned he had started a blog as a way to earn some money on the side. After writing for a couple weeks, they grow frustrated by the slow results and turn to other blogs for advice. Every blog has at least a couple posts dedicated to the search engines. Who cares about blogging? Probably not.

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Melanie Saxton

MAY 2, 2024

When it comes to law journalism, blogging, and authorship, count on me to create compelling content for law firms, private practices, magazines, and books. Below is a magazine write-up from years back about the Christian law firm Simmons & Fletcher. Some are under the impression that they should not sue.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2011

Don’t get me wrong; you can have a totally groovy experience at lesser-known sites and accomplish many valuable blogging goals through those avenues. Given the choice between blogging for the big dogs and blogging for the little dogs, the benefits of going for the higher-ranking option are obvious. It‘s a no-brainer.

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Grammarly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Humans use one type of thinking for instinctive, emotional decisions, but a different type of thinking for slower, more strategic decisions (Kahneman, 2011). but it often endorses or rationalizes ideas and feelings that were generated by System 1” (Kahneman, 2011, p. 2011) Thinking, fast and slow. and Chen, F. 580–592 [online].

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Men With Pens

MAY 14, 2012

Let’s talk about your blog. You don’t know what to write, you don’t feel confident about what you DO write, and frankly, you’d rather not be blogging at all. You’re behind on your blogging schedule… and it’s been a while since you’ve written a post. One good blog post?

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

It’s inevitable that when you’ve been blogging for a while, eventually your subscriber numbers are going to hit a slump. They can be embedded right into your site or blog. Continue to provide great value on the blog, but offer killer in-depth research or bigwig interviews found nowhere else but in that flipbook. Translation?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 29, 2012

Years ago, I started this blog with a pretty big mission in mind: to help you succeed. My blog became popular. Worse was that I spent a lot of time writing for my blog, sharing good solutions, smart advice or better methods… but I wasn’t seeing many readers put the advice I shared to good use. My business got big. I got busy.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 28, 2011

Building a blog is very much like building a model plane – and here are the top 5 lessons I’d like to share with you. When you set up your blog, you’ll face a similar array of options for various skill levels. And the same goes for your blog. How does this relate to your blog? Use the kit made for you.

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AIIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

Nelson & Low, 2011; opening slide of June Boyle’s AIIP 24 Symposium session, Emotional Intelligence for Info-Entrepreneurs. By Annie McMillion Emotional intelligence is the single most important influencing variable in personal achievement, career success, leadership, and life satisfaction.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

You start to apply what you’re learning to what you do the most: blogging. Which is how I spent about three hours in the woods in utter silence, looking for mushrooms with a distinctive pattern on their tops and discovering some things about blogging. Thinking is essential for blogging. A blog post is almost pure thought.

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Express Writers

JUNE 17, 2024

I was once an online writer applying for jobs in 2011. 10 Ways to Create a Knockout Copywriting Portfolio Interestingly, when I sat down to write this piece, I came across a great many blogs out there full of tips on how to build your portfolio with simple and general ideas, i.e., “get experience.” These samples show what you can do.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I started a blog at ListProducer.com about list making, how to be more organized and less stressed in April 2011. Make the most of the content by sharing it with your audience online and repurposing it for blogs and social media. And I always inform them—it’s too late. In fact, you need to start before you even have a book.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2012

This includes blogging 6 days a week about youth work. As part of our Blog the Festive Season series, we asked Stephen how he and his wife are preparing the blog for the festive season. What does preparing the Youth Workin’ It blog for the festive season mean? This will be your second festive season on the blog.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 27, 2013

The last thing you want is for people to land on your website or blog only to immediately hit the Back button. To find out how likely your site or blog is to drive visitors away, consult this list of the top eight blunders that spark abandons and see if your blog guilty of any. Do any say copyright 2011? Four seconds!

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Content Powered

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The average length of a good blog post seems to be increasing every year. Back in 2011, when Google released Panda and changed content marketing forever, blog posts ranged from 300 words to maybe 1,000 from a particularly ambitious marketer. So how long should it take to write one of these blog posts?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 5, 2015

When Heather Armstrong from Dooce decided to wind back blogging after 14 years, it became headline news – New York Magazine even ran a piece called “ Dooce Talks Life After Mommyblogging “, which gave us a glimpse into how someone so successful could leave that life behind. Will you shut it down? Is this the new normal?

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Melanie Saxton

MAY 25, 2023

I edit books for attorneys, among many other author types, and offer SEO-friendly web content and blogging for those in legal and business environments. She became the Domestic Violence Chief and wrote a grant in 2011 to fund the county’s first dedicated domestic violence prosecutor. I wanted to help those without a voice.”

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Stanford obsesses about how to get passionate people’s blogs noticed and promoted at Pushing Social. On a blog, a post has a few seconds to capture and pull in a reader. After spending more hours than I can count analyzing popular posts on top blogs, I’ve been unable to unearth a pattern. Blogging is a visual game.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 5, 2016

If you apply the principle to blogging, you could improve your efficiency and maximize your efforts. In 2011, the U.S. Applying the 80/20 to Blogging. Can you apply the 80/20 rule to your blogging efforts and become a better blogger ? First things first: What’s the “20%” in blogging? A Little History. Absolutely.

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Neil Patel

MAY 24, 2021

In 2011, ICANN extended gTLDs to companies and organizations. If you run a business, blog, or another professional website, a.com TLD is probably the way to go. Other options include using.food for a food blog or.travel for a tour operator. It helps brands register their name as a domain extension. The.com stands for commercial.

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Grammarly

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. The post MLA vs. APA: Citations and Format appeared first on Grammarly Blog. Just to give you an idea of how full citations are supposed to look in each format, below we’ve included APA and MLA examples for the book Thinking, Fast and Slow , which fits appropriately in both psychology and philosophy.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 22, 2023

Typically, you see pagination on blogs, e-commerce stores, social media, and search engines. In 2011, Google used rel=prev/next markup as a ranking factor, and to show the relationship with paginated pages. Pagination vs. Load More vs. Infinite Scroll: Which is Better for SEO? Not anymore.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In fact, I think writing like you talk is half the impetus behind some of the poorly written articles I review for guest posts on this blog. Post by Taylor Lindstrom Taylor hails from Boulder, CO, and she blogs for people who are too good to fail over at. Write like you talk always struck me as incredibly foolish advice.

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Contently

MARCH 14, 2023

How Featured Snippets Help Readers and Your Rankings When you come across a word or phrase that needs some explanation, that’s an excellent opportunity to land your blog post in Google’s featured snippets section. Instead, you can offer to post guest blogs on relevant sites, or you can ask partners or influencers to link to you.

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Melanie Saxton

MARCH 28, 2023

Write Your Arts-Inspired Manuscript with the Help of an Art Book Editor I’ve been involved with many art-themed media projects, from journalism to book editing to ghostwriting—painting, sculpture, 2-D and 3-D, clayworks, crafting, music, dance, choreography… you name it!

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Content Powered

JUNE 16, 2022

Your goal with a blog is to write long-form content that focuses on showcasing your expertise and helping your users. News, update, and announcement posts are blog posts that are typically short-form (under 1,000 or even under 500 words long) and give readers, followers, and customers information about your company. Let's get started!

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

I’m still running my blog despite seeing meager results. Martin’s Press, and had him interviewed on my blog. Try a new format for the pages on your blog. And of course, if you’re failing at your blog right now and want to get better, this blog post from Men with Pens is going to rescue you. Ever tried?

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Content Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It’s all in today’s blog on how to hire a content writer. So You Hired a Writer for Your Blog & Website — Next Steps & Tips. Disclaimer: Finding a writer for your blog and website isn’t easy. This is how to find a blog writer who can actually write. Because more success doesn’t come from more work….

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 25, 2017

In August of 2011, I started Making Sense of Cents while working my full-time job. I didn’t have much time to spend on it, as I was working full-time and working towards my Finance MBA, but I used every little minute of extra time that I had so that I could create a successful blog. As you can tell, I absolutely love blogging.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 24, 2017

How to Grow Your Blog by Interviewing Influencers. But in this blog post I want to talk about why you should do it. The right influencer linking to your blog (or podcast, video or social media account) at the right time can send you a decent amount of traffic. 7 Powerful Non-SEO Reasons to Try Guest Posting. 2: Raised Profile.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Brand marketers will be completely replaced by an AI algorithm that will generate four blog posts, two infographics, a white paper, and a weekly podcast that starts with, ‘Hey guys, I’m soooo excited for this week’s episode.’ – Ron Tite , CEO, Church+State. @AllisonWert Click To Tweet.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 25, 2017

In August of 2011, I started Making Sense of Cents while working my full-time job. I didn’t have much time to spend on it, as I was working full-time and working towards my Finance MBA, but I used every little minute of extra time that I had so that I could create a successful blog. As you can tell, I absolutely love blogging.

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