After a few days, an epic well-written post gets lost in the sea of archives. Of course you can use the archive widgets, but most of them pull by date, not by title. How will your readers know that January was a good month and May wasn’t? You can solve this problem by creating an […]
1st Year Bloggers | Melanie Chisnall
Every Thursday for the next couple of months, I’m featuring a 1st year blogger to write about his/her experience in the first year of blogging. The following post was written by Melanie Chisnall from http://www.scribblesandsmiles.com. Melanie is a fellow writer from Hubpages who is known for her animal advocacy, her vibrant and positive outlook on life, […]
1st Year Bloggers | Cyndi Calhoun
Every Thursday for the next couple of months, I’m featuring a 1st year blogger to tell it like it is. The following post was written by Cyndi Calhoun fromhttp://pictimilitude.com. I first met her on Hubpages in June and found her to be funny, inspiring, and quite creative. She blends photography and writing on her personal […]
Designing Your Blog with a Static Front Page
I asked a question on Twitter this morning: On your homepage, do you have the latest posts come up or do you have a static front page (sometimes called a landing page)? I got a great response from @BoschNick. He said, I lean toward latest posts, depends if you want them to take an action when […]
SEO and Blogs: Creating a Great Blog Title Search Engines Will Love
Blogging comes with some unique challenges that magazine and other print writers don’t have to think about. As a writer for an article in People or Time magazine, the goal is to hook a reader so they turn to your page. But with blogging, the reader doesn’t even have the magazine in their hands yet! […]