Excellent Articles on Writing Title & Description Tags | Marketi Do you wonder what the big deal is about title and description META tags? Struggle with writing them? Think you can just shove a few keywords in and be good to go? Here are two great articles that will guide you in developing title and description tags that draw more visitors to your site. How to Control Your Listing Text in Google’s Search Results By John Metzler The listing text in Google’s search results can easily be overlooked by some webmasters in their SEO efforts. All About Title Tags By Jill Whalen Fixing just the title tags of your pages can often generate quick and appreciable differences to your rankings. How to Create a META Description Tag – From 2004, but still amazingly relevant By Jill Whalen The keywords and phrases you use in your Meta description tag don’t affect your page’s ranking in the search engines (for the most part), but this tag can still come in handy in your overall SEO campaigns. Please share this post with your friends. 0inShare
25 Ways to Use the Web to Find Content for Your Blog This post originally appeared over at our blog resource centre, For Bloggers By Bloggers. I wanted to share it here as I thought you might find it useful, as well as share some of the free resources we offer over at FBBB. Feel free to pop on over and check the rest of For Bloggers By Bloggers out! As a blogger, you know that sometimes the hardest thing to do is come up with content for your blog. Blog Comments 1. 2. 3. Other Blogs 4. 5. 6. 7. Social Bookmarks 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Blog Resources 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Social Networks 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Your Turn As you can see, there are a ton of ideas that you can get from places you’re already using, but may not have thought of. So how about you – what are some of the ways you find content for your blog? Oh, and as a bonus tip, make sure you subscribe to For Bloggers By Bloggers and we’ll hopefully keep bringing you ideas on growing your blog and content! image: hugovk
Outline for Writing a Novel In 1 Year - Novel Writing Help I'll be honest: a better title for this article might have been "An Outline for Writing a Novel in Two Years" - or better still, three or four. As I have already said elsewhere, I really don't recommend trying to rush your writing. Rushing is unlikely to make your book a better one. And besides, why would you want to hurry something you enjoy? Having said that, I know when some people get their mind set on something they like to push on with it and get it done, and so this writing outline demonstrates how you can realistically complete a long work of fiction inside twelve months. Of course, it will still be useful to you if you set yourself a six-month or a two-year target - just halve or double all the quoted times. And on the subject of quoted times, I'm assuming that a month is four weeks, giving you 48 weeks in total plus some holiday time. The "Outline for Writing a Novel In One Year" consists of four stages... 1. That last one is important. 2. 3. However, beware of setting quotas. 4.
Kurt Vonnegut -- troubling.info Eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. -- Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write with Style Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog? Assuming you want to increase your blog traffic, there are certain mistakes you must avoid to be successful. If you commit these mistakes, your traffic will never gain momentum. Worse, it may plateau or begin to decrease. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/VisualField How do I know? Mistake #1: You don’t post enough. There are other mistakes, too; I doubt this list is exhaustive. Question: What other traffic-killers have you witnessed as a blogger?
Blogs in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation You've seen the word, you've seen the web sites and you may even have one. But have you ever wondered: What's the big deal about blogs? To make sense of blogs, you have to think about the news and who makes it. We'll look at news in the 20th vs. the 21st century to make our point. In the 20th century, the news was produced professionally. The 21st century marked the point where news became both professional and personal. As blogs became popular, they created millions of news sources and gave everyone an audience for their own version of news. With a blog...A business owner can share news about his business A mother can share news about her family Or a sport star can share news with fans These people are all "bloggers". How did this happen? Blogs are websites that are organized by blog posts - these are individual news stories, like articles in the paper. Also, Each blog post can become a discussion through comments left by readers. Speaking of relationships, bloggers often work together.
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40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation - Dumb Little M After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You’re excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.Everything is great except that your gold star memo has dangling modifiers, double negatives and run-on sentences colliding with each other. Now I am no grammar whiz but I know a good resource when I see it. purdue.edu/" target="_blank">online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Learn and enjoy! • A or An? • Adjective or Adverb? • Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns • Using Articles ( A/An/The ): with 2 exercises and answer keys Nouns • A Little Help with Capitals • Count and NonCount Nouns (with Plurals, Articles, and Quantity Words): with 2 exercises and answer keys • Count and NonCount Nouns (with Articles and Adjectives): with exercise and answer key • Writing Numbers: with exercise and answer key Prepositions Pronouns