Web Publishing

Keep an Image in your Sidebar

October 11, 2011

Even if you don’t use an image with each post you should have some kind of image on your site that represents you (and your site). I’ve been working on Scoop.It (and lately on Snip.It too) as a content curator for a few topics. One thing I have noticed is how often I can’t get [...]

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Do You Use Captions?

October 5, 2011

4. Use deep captions. Studies have shown that image captions are consistently some of the most-read copy on a page. Try pairing a strong image with a “deep caption.” Deep captions are two to three sentences long. That’s long enough to intrigue your reader to dig in to your whole article. via 8 Incredibly Simple [...]

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Writing for Mobile Blog Readers

September 16, 2011

Writing for Mobile Blog Readers. It might sound funny, but those age-old writing techniques carry right over to today’s hurried mobile readers. (Think of bus or subway commuters who replaced their morning newspaper with smartphones and tablets.) Now is the time to work those suggestions into your blog. Get the nutgraph (keyword phrase) of your [...]

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Blog Smarter, Not Harder

August 30, 2011
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Make Yourself a Content Curator Too many bloggers use content the wrong way. I see so many blogs where the blogger is regurgitating content over and over in one way or another. It’s not working. They may make some money by pulling in readers but most people won’t be that interested in reading something rehashed [...]

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Audit Your Blog

August 22, 2011
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I once worked in the circulation department for a business magazine publisher. When the auditors came in we had organized chaos for awhile. But, things were set up well and it wasn’t hard to justify the subscription lists to show the statistics we had promised the advertisers. Later, I worked for a department store. Once [...]

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The Invisible Deep, Dark Web

August 15, 2011
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The invisible web is what you can’t find using the usual search engines or web directories. The search engines have adapted so they can find some of the invisible web. Pages not created with standard HTML, sites created with other software or scripts didn’t always show up in searches. So what’s still unavailable? Databases which [...]

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Are you a Content Curator?

August 13, 2011

A content curator is more than someone who re-posts links, quotes sources and aggregates content from feeds. A content curator uses their own passion for the topic to filter and give meaning to the content they select. They also add their own information and ideas to the updates. I have worked as someone who collects [...]

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If You’re so Smart, Why are you Pissing Off your Readers?

August 11, 2011

These are things that REALLY bug me about blogs I go to read for the first (and likely only) time. The irony is, these are polished and professional looking blogs by people who want to give me advice about how to blog. Maybe they should rethink that! Video posts – I don’t want to wait [...]

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30 Days to a Better Blog from SITS Girls

July 27, 2011

I’m posting all the steps here cause the Challenge is done but I’m not. This way I can keep working through all the steps even if I only get one each week. See The SITS Girls site for more and future events. Day 01 – Write an Elevator Speech Day 02 – Write a List [...]

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Humans.txt for the Human Touch

July 18, 2011
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Something extra you can do… humanize the web. It may not be great for SEO, or get you noticed by popular bloggers, but it’s a nice touch to remind us all we are humans, writing to other humans. You can create a plain text file easily. Just type it into your version of Notepad. With [...]

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Six Simple Copywriting Tips for Bloggers

July 17, 2011

Short sentences will pop, stand out. But longer sentences will give more depth and explain your point. Both long and short sentences are needed to break up the post so it won’t seem monotone. You can vary sentence structure to give your post a rhythm. Cut out unnecessary or repetitive wording in your blog copy. [...]

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Sneeze Pages Create an Index of your Greatest Content

July 11, 2011
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I’m working on creating a Sneeze Page as part of SITS Girls 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge. With as many posts as this blog has it will be a pretty massive job to put them into topical index/ subpages. It’s something I could easily let myself put off indefinitely. But, I’m going to [...]

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Guest Posts Boom Now Bust

July 3, 2011
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Writing guests posts was an excellent way to have someone else give a voice to your blog and be able to take a day off from writing something yourself. it also let new writers break into new blogs, new topics and get some attention/ promotion for their own sites in return. But, like so many [...]

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New is the New Black

April 16, 2011

For the A – Z Blogging Challenge… N is for New I’m setting myself up on a new (to me) profile network. I guess that is what it could be called. I’ve seen a couple of other networks/ sites like this. You set up a profile with all your social links, your blogs, something about [...]

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Friend Friday and Blogging Rules of Engagement

April 6, 2011

This is my post for Blogging A to Z, E for Engagement. I’m a bit behind on the A to Z. Will catch myself up tomorrow. I found Friend Friday on Feminine Bravery. The topic of the week, for April 1st, were the rules of engagement/ etiquette for bloggers. You can take the questions and [...]

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Is Open Content for You?

March 16, 2011

Could you let go of your content, send it out into the world and let anyone profit or make changes from it as they will? It’s a big thing to create something, care about it and then abandon it without regret. When you give up all rights to your copy you leave your words open [...]

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What do you Know about Typography?

February 16, 2011

Dzineblog has a post about trends in web design. One of the elements they write about, twice actually, is typography. What do you know about it? I Love Typography: A Guide to Web Typography The Font Feed: Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips A List Apart: On Web Typography Smashing Magazine: 10 Principles for Readable Web Typography [...]

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How to Write a Blog Review

February 12, 2011

If you’re ready to go forth and fearlessly give an honest review of another blog… you need a list to guide you along the way. It helps to have a plan with points which can guide you through the review. You don’t have to mention each point in your final written review but they keep [...]

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The Women of Blogger

November 29, 2010
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I wrote a post (Women of WordPress) with links to women involved with WordPress. After I posted it I thought I shouldn’t overlook (Google) Blogger and the women who work with Blogger. From those making templates, writing guides for other users and generally promoting the Blogger community. Here is my list of the women who [...]

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Guide Your Guest Bloggers

November 28, 2010
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If you want guest bloggers guide them to you. Create a page with directions for guest bloggers. Tell them what you expect, what you want from them and what you will give them in return for the posts you review and accept. My best suggestion is to write out a list of ideas and standards [...]

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How Does Your Syndication Grow?

November 26, 2010
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We are all so syndicated these days. Using social media like Twitter and Facebook to post our posts to other networks and then the feed readers which have lost some popularity, we have been able to build a much bigger network for what we write. Do you still count subscribers? Do you know where to [...]

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