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Dash (–) Simple Way To Verify Pinterest On WordPress.org | sounds funny and the not so funny. Verify Your Site Using Pinterest Meta Tag If you are receiving error or 404 message after verifying your site through upload method, try the below steps and hopefully it will work on your end as well. Verifying my site on WordPress.org was easy as 1-2-3 using Pinterest Meta Tag. Steps: 1. Login to your Pinterest account 2. On your profile, click on the pencil in the bottom-right corner of the box 3. 4. 5. 6. Please do tell us on whatever the outcome of your site verification on Pinterest through meta tag using the above steps. Cheers! ***(220214) Just in case above steps won’t work on your site, I suggest you to try other ways and means at wordpress.org like this one:

Heavyweight Help: The Complete Guide to Getting Started on Pinterest. Bloggers: 23 Ways to Counter Writer’s Block. All of a sudden, your blog seems like a dog biting your heel cap and refusing to let go. You do not have time for yourself, all your research zeal has been exhausted and the topics you want to write on are all water down. They have no juice anymore. You have no juice anymore. Welcome to the world of writer’s block! (Image source: Fotolia) All bloggers reach their writing limits at one time or the other. When this happens, do not tear your short point notebook. Related: Designers: 5 Tips to Get Back Your Creativity 1.

Surprise your readers with a review of a book by a foreign writer. 2. Every day, products are launched across the Internet; from coaching programs to physical products, services to magazines. Follow up on a product that was launched a few years ago and track its performance. 3. Your niche may have its unique propositions but the essence of business is the same across all industries. 4. (Image source: Fotolia) 5. Blogsdrop (coined from eavesdrop) often. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Bloggers: 23 Ways to Counter Writer’s Block. Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging - ProBlogger. 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes. I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward. If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery.

As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it’s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes. But experience has also taught me that readers, for better or worse, will approach your work with a jaundiced eye and an itch to judge. While your grammar shouldn’t be a reflection of your creative powers or writing abilities, let’s face it — it usually is. Who and Whom This one opens a big can of worms. Which and That Lay and Lie Moot Nor.

How to Write Better: 7 Instant Fixes. Does your writing stand out? Do you worry whether your writing is good enough? I can see you nodding your head. You are not alone. Every writer has doubts about his or her writing. The good thing is that writing is a journey. On this journey, you can either travel the long road – or use shortcuts. Using shortcuts means learning to spot and fix mistakes in order to write better. Here are seven instant fixes that will improve your writing. But … what is good writing? Inexperienced writers think that ‘good’ writing is elaborate. No, good writing is simple. 1: The art of natural Check out an example of elaborate writing below (I’ve sourced examples of writing from free Kindle books chosen at random). This is from a story about a young girl who is at home with her young brother when a thunderstorm strikes.

An ebony abyss claimed the den. I take this to mean, “The room went dark.” Maybe the author consulted a Thesaurus to create a sentence with special words. Your words should sound natural. Careful!