Search engine optimization is always important, even when you generate traffic in other ways. There are many SEO tips that can help rank your page organically and the better you do this, the more long-term regular traffic your website will continue to get.
So, how do you apply good SEO into your writing? It’s really not as complicated as you might think. Actually, the best basic SEO strategies can really be summed up in these five simple techniques…
It would be wonderful if we could sit down and create an entire blog post at full speed, the words flowing as fast as we can type them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way.
Creating a great blog post is within your ability though, and here we’ll look at a few tips to help you write an engaging post every time.
Content and copy are two different types of writing, though some people believe them to be the same. Both types of writing have different objectives, styles, and require different skills to write. Let’s take a look at what each one is.
For many years, guest blogging has been an essential tool for many websites. Now, however, some changes by Google are making this tactic less effective, and in some cases, they will even penalize your site.
So what are the advantages of using this strategy? And do they out-weigh the negatives?
If you are the owner of a local business – or someone marketing on their behalf – then it is almost essential that you have a listing on Google My Business. These listings appear at the top of Google’s search results, making them a prime location when trying to get new customers. Your listing will be seen before the user sees the normal search results, making it more likely that they will visit your business’s website, or even the store directly.
Continue reading Improve Your Google My Business Listing Rank
Google announced earlier this year that they had been working on the Penguin 4.0 search algorithm update. This would change the way search results are ranked, affecting a lot of SEO practices.
Previously we had been expecting the update to be released by the end of 2015. Google had also stated they expected to release it in that time frame. For a lot of webmasters, this was great news as Penguin 3.0 had affected their rankings in a big way.
Now, after being questioned by a number of people, Google has confirmed that the Penguin 4.0 update will not be happening this year. With that being said, considering how much time and work has been put into it, the algorithm update is likely to drop pretty early in 2016.
Continue reading A Look at Google’s Penguin 4.0 Update & the Expected Release Date
The official countdown to the 2015 update of Google Penguin is underway and it has SEO and SEM specialists everywhere super excited.
What will this update mean for you? Continue reading The Official Countdown to the 2015 Release of Google Penguin 4.0 is Underway
I recently had the opportunity and pleasure to work on a great new photography eBook as an assistant producer. The eBook is Landscapes, Cityscapes & Photography Tricks by Richard Schneider, a talented photographer and the man behind PictureCorrect.com, where I also contribute articles to regularly.
Landscapes, Cityscapes & Photography Tricks is an in-depth guide covering all aspects of landscape and cityscape photography. You’ll learn how to master challenging lighting conditions, which camera settings to use, how to take more compelling pictures and how to edit them to perfection in post-processing.
Schneider also offers a ton of incredible photography tricks to capture amazing long exposures, including light painting, star trails, timelapse and panoramas.
While I’m about to go off on a long, seemingly pointless tangent, please bear with it and keep reading, as I promise, hand to heart, that what I am about to say, as flowery and unnecessarily descriptive as it may be, will make sense… eventually.
As a young female writer who has dreamed of being a novelist since childhood, when I would sit down at my white, antique desk with the worn silver knobs and telling dents that had been handed down to my mother from my great-grandmother, I have always been filled with a love of words. The way they dance across a page to capture the imaginations of the readers, the way they…
Okay, I can’t go on. Are you still with me?
That was excruciating. Here’s the point:
When it comes to developing plot and characters, women writers have been said to have a tendency to write long, drawn-out, excessively detailed descriptions that explain too much.
In short, women writers take forever to get to the point.
On October 22, 2012, over 5,000 people gathered in front of the BC Legislature in Victoria to protest tar sands pipelines and tankers.
On November 23, all across this great land of Canada, people gathered in many of the provinces’ major cities to rally for and celebrate Food Freedom Day. The rallies took place on the fifth anniversary of the 2006 raid on dairy farmer and raw milk activist, Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farms.
This weekend I had the pleasure of witnessing the Tweed Ride in Victoria. What began in 2009 as Tweed Run London, where a small group of smartly dressed people took a leisurely ride through the streets of London, England to raise money to buy bicycles for children in Africa, has now morphed into a world-wide event.
As one of the most famous American poets, Gary Snyder has been linked to the Beat Movement, the Black Mountain Poets and the San Francisco Renaissance. As a lover of nature and Zen Buddhism, Snyder focuses his works around those themes, and dedicates much of his life to environmental activism.
Gary Sherman Snyder was born on May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California. He grew up on small farms in Washington state and Oregon. At an early age, Snyder became obsessed with nature and angered by the destruction of the Pacific Northwestern forests.
As it happens for many writers and artists, Lew Welch was often marked by uncertainty and conflicted with his role in society. He lacked the ability to meet goals he had set for himself and usually changed them anyway.
He was prone to mental breakdowns from the time he was a baby and suffered with this condition for the rest of his life. Because he lived with such mental turmoil, Lew Welch is another brilliant mind from a brilliant generation to have suffered an early death.
Due to trouble with the law, mainly for drug possession and distribution, William S. Burroughs, his wife Joan and their children moved many times, ending up in Mexico City.
One night Bill and Joan attended a party and, while drunk, it is argued that they decided to play a game of William Tell. While accounts of the events and conversations leading up to Joan’s death differ, it is a fact that Bill did attempt to shoot a glass off Joan’s head and missed. Whether or not they had attempted this trick before is also up for debate.
On Sept. 6, 1951, Bill and Joan visited the apartment of John Healy in Mexico City. A few hours later, Joan arrived at Cruz Roja (Red Cross) where medics began emergency life-saving measures for a bullet wound to the head. Joan had been shot by Bill and pronounced dead at the hospital. She was only 28.