Blog Design for Killer SEO - Infographic. Before Moz was a business, it was a blog. In fact, blogging is at the heart of everything this company stands for. A blog is so much more than a pageview generator. It speaks in your voice, provides a gateway to your community, acts as your moral center and facilitates communication with the rest of the world. And done right, it's an unbeatable marketing tool. As Blogpulse reports over 165 million identified blogs on the internet, it's safe to say that very few are "done right. " Embed this image: 1.
With all due respect to Arngren.net, the overall design of your site is the first thing visitors see and it significantly influences bounce rate, pageviews and conversions. Professional design doesn’t have to include the word expensive. A professional template from ThemeForrest. Whatever design resource you choose, the goal is to set yourself apart while enticing your visitors to stay. 2.
It should go without saying that every site needs a prominent search box. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Killer-blog-design.jpg (JPEG Image, 1300×2140 pixels) Emotionally invested | Visual Epidemic. By Stephanie On January 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment I have kept a variety of blogs over the years, some very personal, some anonymously, and some only for research or projects. This blog, in fact, was supposed to be a very non-personal research blog.
But I can’t do it that way. To me research is personal. Perhaps it is because I never really did the work/life balance thing very well, but I love my job and I am emotionally invested in the areas I research. So while this blog was not supposed to be personal at all, it became obvious quickly that the work-only approach was not working – my blog stayed lonely and forgotten. I need the mixture. So where is my work right now? I can feel how rusty I am at this whole blogging thing! If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it! Your email address will not be published. I am an active student/researcher/ teacher who is passionate about the process of finding out and formulating the ‘why’. Stephanie : Will you be there too? How To Build A Longer Attention Span. We often read in productivity literature that we’ll be able to accomplish whatever we want, once we take any potential distractions out of our workspace — by disconnecting the internet and phone, putting the TV in another room, and so on.
But there’s something this approach doesn’t deal with. Even if we remove every possible distraction from our environment, we’ll still be left with our own minds. Even if we can’t flee from work by surfing the internet, we can always run away by daydreaming, reminiscing, making up worst-case scenarios about what the boss is going to say, and so on. In other words, if we find it hard to focus on a single task for a long time, just rearranging our work environment won’t help much.
This is why I think it’s important to practice holding our attention. A Five-Minute Focusing Exercise The exercise I’ll offer is based on a meditation that’s done by some Zen practitioners. The exercise is simple. Refocus When Distraction Arises Photo by B Rosen Christopher R. Baby duck syndrome. 2011 is pink. So the Pantone Colour of the Year 2011 is Honeysuckle Pink.
Can’t say I’m a big fan of pink. I was much happier last year when it was turquoise (just look at the colours on this blog!) . Now there’s a colour with infinite possibilities. But looking at the colour honeysuckle, it’s a cheerful strong bright pink, none of your wishy-washy pastels. Though with a lot of websites last year ending up with orange or pink designs, it may be a little late to turn this website pink – and do I really want to – hmm… Eight strategies for using blogs in a course. Flickr photo by Florian Leroy I have probably already shared that I am a blog convert. Originally unimpressed with the power of this medium, I have grown over time to value its place in the technology toolbox. Blogs provide an easy way to compose an ongoing series of writings and receive comments on them, while at the same time publishing a customized basic website with pages of static content. Like my former self, most people have a preconceived list of circumstances under which they believe blogs may be valuable – and in some cases that list is pretty short.
This article aims to help folks broaden that list. It might even give you an idea for a strategy that uses a blog to meet a need in a course that you teach. Strategies for using blogs in a course Academic reflection – students react to readings, in a sort of online “book club.” Surely there are many additional good ideas and examples. NOTE: This post coincides with a session I am presenting at Notre Dame, “Blogs for Teaching.”