Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“I have no idea where my book is published.” These are just a few of the comments I’ve heard from authors sharing their experiences with the hybrid publishing companies they’ve chosen to work with. So if you’re an author starting out on your publishing journey, it’s important to know what to look out for. What royalties?

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the last several years, I’ve spent oodles of time submitting short stories, essays, poetry, and novels to literary magazines, contests, and publishers. We’re talking scores of hours devoted to searching, formatting, and submitting my stuff directly to the publishing gods (I’m excluding agents). Well, it’s simple, really.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

These models can produce various content formats, including code, text, visuals, audio, and video. Depending on the tool you use, you may be able to enter freeform, text-based prompts. For example, Semrushs Ecommerce Booster app generates ad descriptions based on keywords, text length, readability, tone of voice, and format settings.

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Backlinko

JULY 22, 2024

Backlinko started as a simple personal blog in 2012, publishing one or two posts per month. Text: Is text readable and appropriately sized for mobile screens? This includes: Page title (H1) Subheadings (H2–H6) Body text Title tags Meta descriptions This helps search engines understand what your content is about.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 25, 2024

For that reason, our research has recently explored the concept of sensitive, or “delicate,” text. While there has been a lot of research into detecting and combating toxic text in recent years, we’ve seen a gap when it comes to the broader category of delicate text, which may not be characterized as toxic but still presents a risk.

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Studies show that readers tend to disengage when text feels overly complex or verbose, which can lead to lower engagement and conversions. Break your writing into shorter, more meaningful paragraphs to help readers navigate your text and better understand what you’re trying to convey.

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Grammarly

MARCH 30, 2024

Work smarter with Grammarly The AI writing partner for anyone with work to do Get Grammarly How to cite a paraphrase Paraphrasing is when you restate someone else’s text or speech in your own words, keeping the original meaning. This is called an in-text citation or parenthetical citation. There are two challenges to doing this.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

You can then provide context to support the story you’ve shared and return to the more factual aspect of your text. Grab the reader’s attention at the start of a chapter or book section by starting with an intriguing anecdote or create suspense by starting at a critical moment in time and highlighting the stakes through real-life examples.

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Credible Content

JUNE 2, 2023

20 benefits of publishing a blog post every day. Publishing daily demonstrates valuable and fresh content, positively impacting search rankings. Consistent publishing builds audience loyalty and increases repeat visits. Blogging has become an integral part of online communication and content creation.

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Backlinko

JULY 12, 2024

A reverse image search allows you to find more information about an image or topic by using the image itself—instead of text. Like color, objects, text, and more. Then, find the result with the oldest publish date to identify the original creator. In this example, the oldest published data is for a Shutterstock page.

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Credible Content

MAY 28, 2023

Writing and publishing e-books for personal branding. What Is E-Book Writing and Publishing? E-book writing and publishing refers to the process of creating, formatting, and distributing electronic books, also known as e-books. It undergoes editing, proofreading, and revision to ensure quality and accuracy.

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Backlinko

JULY 26, 2024

The typical length of a blog post is 1427 words ( Orbit Media ) 61% of bloggers typically publish content between 500 and 1500 words long. Only 14% of blogs typically publish 2000+ word posts ( Orbit Media ) Nearly half (47%) of bloggers publish every week or multiple times per month.

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Instead: Alternate between people if you have multiple speakers Use visual transitions to maintain interest Include action sequences or demonstrations Add supporting graphics or text overlays Stay True to Your Brand Your script should align with your brand voice across all channels.

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Backlinko

JULY 10, 2024

Instead of linking to one page for relevant anchor text across your site, you have to selectively link different pages in every location. Linking different pages with similar anchor text can confuse users or lead them to pages that don’t satisfy their search intent. Users also rely on internal links to find relevant content on a site.

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

  We poured over millions of posts, Reels, Tweets, TikToks, Shorts, videos, and more to pinpoint when the best-performing content was published.    Post recency  (how recently you published your content) is one of them. To predict the best times to post on TikTok and YouTube, we looked at reach and video views.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the best things about greeting card writing jobs is that most companies don’t care whether you’ve just been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize or your mom’s refrigerator is the only place your writing has ever been published. We prefer text that is flexible enough to be used with a variety of images.”

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While Google doesnt use or at least publish any official authority metric, there are tools that can estimate this for you. But when it comes to backlink anchor text, you need to be careful. Overly optimized anchor text or excessive linking to a specific page can trigger penalties. For example, Semrush uses Authority Score (AS).

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’ve had a couple of experiences over the past six months or so that have provided some intriguing glimpses at how publishing services are trying to make even just a little more money, while the behemoth Amazon dominates search and sales in self-publishing. Amazon.ca: paperback $21.09; hardcover $39.70 And on it goes like that.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2025

Focus on quality, on real connections, on real conversations, and then find a publishing schedule that works for you, that keeps you connected to the joy of creating. Put in the effort to write simply A simple text is almost effortless to read. Ideas you had in mind turn out differently in a draft text. Writing is uncertain.

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Backlinko

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But after publishing hundreds of articles, we’ve found these elements work best: Primary keyword: The main term or phrase your content must focus on. Visuals break up text, increase engagement, and improve user interaction. They tend to count all text on the page—including navigation menus, comments, footers, and sidebar content.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 25, 2024

How can you successfully self-publish in Germany? This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket , which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. A year later, I published my first book, and I got to make a living from it almost immediately.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How can you create a high-quality photo book and publish it on Kickstarter? But you're not on the travel podcast today, you're on the publishing podcast. I mean, even doing the transcript for my interviews on this show, I'm aware sometimes that the text on the page does not reflect the emotion that we talked about.

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Express Writers

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Conversely, they blur the line between human creativity and machine-generated text. These tools help identify AI-written content so you can ensure originality in everything you publish. Unnatural Tone: AI-written text sometimes lacks the rhythm and flow of human writing. On the one hand, AI tools promise efficiency.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 29, 2024

You’ll also want to add descriptive alt text to your images. For example, alt text for this image could be: Professional plumber in uniform inspecting under-sink plumbing while showing digital tablet to homeowner in kitchen. Finding websites that publish plumbing-related content can take time.

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And sometimes, when writing informational content, optimized for SEO, and published in bulk, with some light human editing AI can come close to being “good enough”. But here are some questions I’ll ask myself as a way to audit the text for Emotional Intelligence: 1. But when it’s not just about sharing information, the math changes.

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The Hoth

DECEMBER 17, 2024

If a trusted, high-quality website like Forbes or CNBC were to include a link to one of your web pages, its a sign that you also publish accurate, trustworthy content. In other words, a backlink profile consisting only of high-quality guest posts with similar anchor text (the text masking a hyperlink) will raise red flags to Google.

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Backlinko

APRIL 7, 2025

We aim for every article we publish to meet or exceed Google’s helpful content standards. Use it before hitting publish to ensure your content meets Google’s quality standards. They also published detailed explanations of how they weigh different factors in their rating system. And ranks for more than 3.2K

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ContentWriters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Visual Search Capabilities Visual search tools like Google Lens or Bing Visual Search allow users to search for information using images or videos instead of text. You should use high-resolution images and provide alt-text so the bots can interpret the content. Publish topically relevant content incorporating PAA questions.

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Write Freelance

JUNE 13, 2023

Content writing and editing tools #1- Google Docs A must-have tool in every freelance content writer’s arsenal Google Docs is one of the popular free content writing apps for creating and editing text documents online. You will be redirected to a new page where all the cliches in your text will be highlighted in bold.

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Back in 1995 I published my first website. You write a prompt, and the AI comes back with written text. It’s how I came to publish my first website in 1995. Those were the early days of the web as a place for business. That year there were just 16 million people online. From zero to 100 million in a little over 3 years.

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Backlinko

MARCH 3, 2025

This builds a sustainable pipeline of qualified leads that continues growing long after you publish the content. Pro tip: Every time you publish a new post, spend five to 10 minutes adding relevant internal links from your existing content. Including when theyre researching a problem, comparing solutions, or ready to make a purchase.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Do you want to publish an image-heavy book like a cookbook? How can you navigate the challenges of photography, book design, and publishing choices to make the best product possible? So a lot of people do want to publish a cookery book, but let's go into each of the challenges one at a time. It's a bit strange. Is that right?

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remember that first book you published that didn’t do well? Somewhere, lurking in the back end of Amazon is a black mark beside your name, and that mark means, This author once published a book no one seemed to like = low relevancy. Bolding and italics: You can boldface key text throughout the description.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Adapting to generative AI marketing communication Generative AI (also known as gen AI) is a branch of AI that creates new content, such as images, text, music, or other media, based on patterns and data learned from existing examples. Marketing communication trends FAQs How can small businesses leverage AI in their marketing communication?

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Think about how much easier it is to remember “3 key steps” versus reading through paragraphs of unstructured text. It’s essential to see what information has already been published to understand what your competition is creating and your audience wants. List articles naturally provide that structure.

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Express Writers

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Your published content is your business ambassador to the world. Companies publishing 16 or more blog posts per month generate 4.5 times more leads than those publishing fewer than four. The way a company communicates whether through a blog, a brochure, or a website shapes how customers perceive its brand.

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at my typical writing process from start to publish. Add final touches and publish With the draft polished, it’s time for final touches and publishing. Insert social media example] I also include the article in our weekly newsletter along with anything else published that week.

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