Write Better, Get Published, Be Creative. Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2012 - The Winners. When we asked you to nominate your favorite writing blog as one of the top 10 blogs for writers, we got a huge response!
Great to see how passionate readers are about their favorite writing blog. As you’ll see there are some previous winners, as well as some talented new bloggers in the top 10 of 2012. How were the winners selected? Initial qualification: A site must have been nominated more than once by multiple individuals. If someone nominated more than one blog, only the first nomination was counted. Jeff Goins Writer Positive Writer The Creative Penn Make a Living Writing The Write Practice Live Write Thrive Moody Writing The Romance University The Renegade Writer The Writers [Inner] Journey Congratulations to all the winners!
The badge of distinction: If you are a winner, display the badge you see above on your blog and link the badge back to this page. Readers, be sure to check out these awesome blogs! And please help spread the word. Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor, Write to Done. Living and loving the freelance life—on your own terms. Freelance Writers: Get Higher Paying Projects and Do Them Faster and Better. 5 creative ways to repurpose content. If we want people to read our content, we've got to tell them about it.
A great way to do that is to repurpose content as part of a content marketing program. There's a good case for repurposing content beyond content promotion: For me, writing—specifically blogging—is thinking. Often my best ideas come after I've written a post. Creative PR is part art and part science. It's also cumulative, which means one idea leads to another—that's the art. Repurposing content is also practical; it extends the shelf-life of content. Though this article is specifically about repurposing a blog post, there are myriad useful ways to repurpose content. First, some useful guidelines: Add value to the original content at each step; there's always room for improvement. Here we go—a protocol for repurposing content: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. So what? Take that last point, and let's use the tweet as the starting point. Measurement?
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There are even a few tips on how to market what you publish. Hubspot: Lots of free information and tools such as the Marketing Grader (try this– every website needs it!). This will help you with search engine optimization. Google Analytics provides hyper-detailed statistics on your website, its visitors and sources, as well as the keywords used to search for it. This is an essential tool if you want to improve your search engine ranking. Google Keyword Tool can be used to search for keywords related to your site. StatSheep offers detailed YouTube statistics. Adobe Creative Cloud: No matter what size publisher you are, you need this. Richard Harrington Blog: A lot of good technical information about digital publishing, including useful downloadables under the Resources tab.