Category Archives: blogs

What is the difference between an article and a blog post?

An article is a lengthy piece of writing, written in an expert’s point of view, aimed at explaining a topic in great detail. A blog post is a shorter piece of writing, usually in a ‘conversational’ style, aimed at updating or educating your readers, or to spark ideas and interest in your business. Articles are…

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What are your blogging barriers?

Many people have told me that they are afraid to start blogging. Digging further into this revealed a number of different fears, and not necessarily about the technology side, which I thought was the main reason. Yes, technology is a hindrance, but it is something that can eventually be overcome with guidance. It is the…

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How aware are you of the power of the picture?

I’ve just finished my blogging package ‘The Power of Pictures’. This is just one of my series of blogging packages I’m creating to help women (and men) towards creating their own successful business blog. The first ones of the series are scheduled to be ready towards the end of July, so watch this space! I…

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Forget your blog, forget your readers, forget SEO

There is nothing worse than setting up a blog and then forgetting about it – like someone said in a Twitter post, “a blog with no new content is like a cheese sandwich”. Although this made me smile, he is right. An inactive blog is the same as a brochure website, looking pretty but with…

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How many ways can you use a blog?

One blog I always read avidly is Graham Jones’s, and his post on using a blog to keep your customers happy poses an interesting insight into how you could use a blog in different ways, not just the usual weblog diary thing. I like the idea of providing private blogs, or even individual password protected…

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How many of you can cope with blogspeak?

I’ve just listened to a video about blogging. Normally I would be very excited and would take voracious notes, but this time I just sat there bemused. As a result I am determined to develop my new niche. Since the end of May, when I developed Bell’s Palsy, I had to take a back seat…

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The fall, and rise, of blogging

Take a look at this blog post Blogging is dead, long live blogging – free wordpress ebook by Marko Saric of HowToMakeMyBlog.com, I think you will find it interesting. It’s all about how important it is to keep on blogging, and how Twitter and other social media will not take over – and don’t forget…

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Blogging less can be effective too

I would like to reprint a portion of a post How to get more time to blog by Michael Martine of Remarkablogger, Blog Consultant and Blog Coach. I hope he doesn’t mind, but it raised some points that I wanted to share with you and hope you would find interesting. Blog Less Despite the fact…

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Keywords should entertain blog readers as well as search engine spiders

Keywords or key-phrases are particular words that are the most searched for in search engines. Found through websites such as Wordtracker, they are, in fact, search engine spider food, and including them in your blog posts will help raise your status in search engine optimisation (SEO). Keywords or key-phrases should be inserted into four places…

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Websites and blogs: how are they different?

Actually a blog is a kind of website, as they have many similar attributes. They both occupy a presence on the internet, use an URL or web address, need a host server to keep them online, contain information such as text content, pictures, links and keywords, both benefit from search engine optimisation and can be…

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