During each episode of The Professional Writer podcast, Laura Christianson and her guests discuss our struggles and successes as we plan, launch, and grow our writing-related businesses.
A range of writerpreneurs – from pre-published writers to New York Times bestselling authors – offer practical tips and advice. Links to episodes 1-42 are in this post.
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Master the art of creating hyperlinks inside anchor text with this easy, six-step illustrated tutorial.
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In my previous post, we discussed How often you “should” blog.
Today, we look at the ever-evolving “perfect” length for a blog post. You’ll learn three benefits of writing long-form posts, and will get three tips for writing your first mega post.
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Measuring your social media ROI (return on investment) when you’re not sure what metrics to focus on can be challenging. Our guest columnist, Lilach Bullock, unravels the mystery and provides loads of practical, doable, step-by-step tips. Get ready to measure your social media results!
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In this updated version of helpful blog posts from around the web, you’ll find links to 11 excellent tutorials about website security, search engine optimization (SEO), e-mail marketing, and website essentials.
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Is your website mobile-friendly? This article explains Google’s new mobile-friendly update, and how it will affect your site.
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Thinking about blogging this year?
Websites that include a blog integrated into the site (NOT hosted separately on Blogspot or some other blog hosting service) typically have 434% more indexed pages.
Blog posts are doorways to your business. Publish a blog post once a week this year, and give your customers 52 doors to open.
This article and accompanying infographic explains how to use the “doorway” method to help new customers discover you.
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This is a guest post by Matt Morgan. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines.
Too often do I hear business owners jump to conclusions when they find that their current website is not generating the traffic that they’d expected. It is a common myth that you need to start over and build a new website to get to the top of the search engines in order to drive traffic to your offerings.
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