Category Archives: Managing Your Ezine & Blog Tasks

Business Blog: 4 Reasons to NOT Write Your Own

Guest post by Adam Kosloff. You’re swamped. You barely have time to scan the headlines of your favorite news feeds. Probably the only reason you clicked on this article was to check out whether it might provide instant value to you. Can this article save you time and/or money and/or hassle? Hopefully, it can. And not…

Tips on Blog Post Optimization

What are the steps you need to follow to ensure each blog post is optimized for search engines as well as well-written for your readers’ interests? Oh my… there are a lot. But to keep me out of overwhelm, I wrote them down, and put them into a flow chart. This is good for days…

Serial Writing Formula: 1=5+2=7+1

I’m no math genius, nor do I even think remotely like that in analytical terms. But once in a while I stumble upon something that makes sense, saves time, and produces exponential results. I’m talking about serial writing. You take one main concept, break it down into a list of 5 key elements, write an…

How to Start a Blog Serial Writing Project

 If you’ve been reading my blogs for any length of time, you know about my problem with writing:  I love to write, and I can write too much.  Anyone with a doctorate suffers from the same disease. Dissertation-itis. Nobody has time to read all those words anymore, especially not online. Then, at some point…

How to Write with Your Right Brain: 5 Tips

One of the smartest things you can do to keep up with blog writing is to use your brain well. Use your right brain to tap into your creativity. The third thing I do in the morning when I get up is write on one of my blogs. (First, brew a pot of Cafe de…

Content Marketing Tip: Use Ready-to-Publish Articles

Content marketing is easier when you can outsource some of the writing and researching to qualified writers. A great way to short-cut the time needed to research, write and publish quality online content is to find a good writer to supply articles. For example, as a former executive coach and psychologist, I write for other…

8 Blog SEO Tips for Top Search Results

What are the most important SEO tips for your blog to get good search results? It may be easier than you think to start getting onto the first page for keyword searches. Most of what I’ve learned about search engine optimization techniques I learned from Scribe SEO Content Optimizer. This honey of a software tool…

A Simple Way to Get SEO Inbound Links: Be Nice

One of the important ways to keep your search engine rankings up is through building quality inbound links. For those of you less familiar with SEO-talk, backlinks are when other sites link to the content on your site. It tells the search engines you’re important. Here’s what Mike Phillips writes on Website Magazine: Solicit quality…

High Quality Content Sites Is What Google Wants

There’s been an important update to the way Google runs their search algorithms, designed to weed out the number of junk content farms. You and your pages shouldn’t be concerned, except if you’re trying to game the system. But you should always be alert for how such changes affect your site and make corrections when…

Feed Your Blog Automatically to LinkedIn & Twitter

Update From Patsi, February 2012: We apologize for not updating this post earlier. I no longer update any social media automatically, but am posting manually (read why here, Say NO to Auto-Feeds: Your Blog & Facebook, Social Sites). This is time-consuming and may require a virtual assistant for some of you. I recommend SerenityVA.com. How…