The Professional Writer Podcast

5 Steps for Planning a Year’s Worth of Blogging

5 easy steps for planning an entire year’s worth of blog posts — starting right now! Guest column by Katherine Scott Jones.

Why It’s Critical to Publish Updated Contact Info Everywhere Online

Have you ever met someone at a conference and then tried to find them online, but couldn’t? In this guest post, Deena Elliott explains the disasters that can befall you if you’re invisible online, and she shares tips for making sure others can find you and your business online.

Turn your $16 book into a 6-figure business! Or not.

Some authors-turned-marketers prey on unsuspecting writers, promising they will reveal publishing “secrets” when writers sign up for their spendy online courses. Buyer beware.

3 Great Lifesaving Tips for Newbie Bloggers

Is blogging a new adventure for you? Save your sanity with these three tips for newbie bloggers from author, Doug Brown.

Doug attended “Take your blogging and social media marketing to the next level,” a course Laura Christianson taught recently.

7 Often Overlooked Tips for Promoting on Social Media

Want to improve your chances of getting noticed on social media? Try these seven simple, yet often overlooked, techniques for increasing the success of your promotional activities on Facebook or Twitter.

8 Tips to Writing Great Content for Your Readers

By Matt Boyd
Guest Contributor

I’m not your typical writer. I’ve never been classically trained in language arts so needless to say, writing has not always been (and still isn’t) second nature to me. There’s a constant balance of writing well and creating content people will enjoy. Finding that balance is often difficult.

Recently, I’ve immersed myself in a whirlwind of blog articles with the sole purpose of studying successful writing styles. It’s always interesting to see which posts are successful by reading how users respond in the comments. Over my time as a studier of blog articles, I’ve learned some simple tips that have helped me create content people respond to and enjoy.

5 Surprising Tax Deductions for Bloggers

This is a guest post by Evan Fischer. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines.

Working bloggers tend to fall into one of just a few categories.

• There are those who started a blog for fun as a way to explore and share their passion for a topic, only to discover that blogs can be monetized (a proposition which quickly led them to download AdSense and start the money-making process).

• And there are bloggers that started as writers and ended up getting hired on by a company to pen their on-site blog.

• Finally, there are freelance writers who peddle their wares to a variety of blogs, writing on a diverse array of topics.
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Consolidate Multiple Websites For Better Search Engine Ranking

This is a guest post by Matt Morgan. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines.

We Aren’t Getting Enough Website Traffic. Let’s Build a New Site

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.