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3 Ways To Better Hold Your Visitor’s Attention On Your Blog Posts

June 30, 2019 By Mike R.

While getting people to come to your blog is a victory in and of itself, this victory can feel a little cheapened if you notice that those who are visiting your blog are bouncing right off after just a few seconds on your page. Luckily, there are things you can do to mitigate this issue once you recognize the problems.

So to help ensure that the people you’re working so hard to bring to your blog actually stay and consume some of your content, here are three ways to better hold your visitor’s attention on your blog posts. 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: blog posts, blogging tips, easy to understand content, make your points clear

5 Tips to Use Your Blog for Better SEO

October 24, 2017 By Mike R.

Creating SEO-friendly blog posts is an excellent way to improve your search rankings. Content is the root of most people’s SEO strategies, but that doesn’t mean they always use SEO appropriately, especially in their blog posts. According to a study from Conductor, 66 percent of companies combine their content creation strategies with their SEO campaigns for best results.

Any website seeking higher search rankings and greater online credibility needs to incorporate more SEO-friendly content into their strategies. It means a greater focus on proper keywords, publication sites, relevant topics, headings, subheadings, and more. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blogging, SEO Tagged With: blogging tips, optimize images, SEO tips, use local keywords

How To Turn Your Blog Into Your Business

March 1, 2017 By Mike R.

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If you’re a blogger and you enjoy doing what you do, you may someday decide you want to turn your love of blogging into a business. You might want to simply monetize your blog, or maybe you’ll want to do more than just that. Have you watched the movie ‘Julie and Julia’? In this movie, the protagonist turns her blog into a book after getting many offers.

So, when you decide to make something more of your blog than just a place to talk about the things you know about or the things that you experience, here is what you may want to do. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: blogging as a business, blogging tips, turn your blog posts into a book

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Web Design Tools You Wish You Knew About When First Designing Your Website

It’s easy to have perfect vision in hindsight, but when designing a website a little planning ahead can give you a perfect vision from the get-go. Many web designers find themselves performing redundant tasks, or creating things with manual effort that could otherwise be automated. Check out these useful web design tools that you’ll be […]

Best Resources to Use for Web Design Ideas

Web designers may have their own ideas when creating a layout design for a website but similar to writers, they also experience the so-called mental block syndrome at certain times. Fortunately, the web has a wealth of information available and designers can always turn to it for inspiration. It may surprise you to know that […]

The “Horrible Web Design Client:” An Infographic Look

Web design is a new frontier in creative designing. It takes a special set of design skills to make an effective web site. A good web site is not just pretty to look at, or filled with a lot of cool Flash animations, it is also easily navigable, with well laid out elements that are […]

Pagelines PlatformPro 1.3 – The Upgrade

PlatformPro 1.3, the latest upgraded version of the successful PlatformPro Theme by PageLines, has finally hit the market. Packed with 20 or so new options and features, it has undergone some major changes; the most important of which are listed here: The new Web Typography tool provides direct integration with Google’s Font API. This provides […]

Design tip: use extraordinary imagery

Drawn.ca has posted 2 interesting sources of atypical imagery which, I realized, can be great design inspiration: First, Dogfoose uses close-up images of produce in his illustrations. The sample below uses broccoli as treetops for a kids magazine illustration: What an amusing way to channel the miniature look (achieved through tilt-shift photography) for infographics purposes! […]

iThemes Builder – Your one-stop WordPress Theme Builder

This revolutionary new theme is incredibly easy to install – simply upload it into the themes folder, click activate – that’s it! As with all their themes, iThemes have included a My Themes widget, providing links to special features within the theme itself, as well as relevant information for the configuration of WordPress. The layout […]