Blogging

Blogging is one of the best things you can do to drive new users and traffic to your website. We’ve written many articles about the benefits of blogging for your business that include blogging tips and more. Check out our articles below to find content that’s useful for you.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for 2024

This week, I've written about why your business should be blogging, and why and how you should create a blogging content calendar. Today, I want to talk about some of...
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Content Calendar Magic: Planning a Blog that Drives Results

A content calendar is like your recipe book, keeping track of all the tasty topics you'll serve your readers. It's basically a roadmap for your blog, ensuring you're not throwing...
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SEO Powerhouse: Leveraging Blogs for Google Domination

And I'm back once again to tell you the same thing I've told you before... over and over again. If you are trying to rank higher in the search engines,...
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Are blog tags the same as keywords?

Back in the early days of websites, back when I was coding sites solely with HTML and nobody had smart phones, we added keywords to the site's meta data to...
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Why you should start a company blog

Blogging is a popular medium for individuals to express their ideas and share their experiences. However, blogging is not just limited to individuals; businesses can also benefit from blogging. In...
How to Monetize Your Blog

How to make money with your blog

More than a few people have approached us at Sumy Designs about how to monetize their blog, and it's easy to explain how to set up ads, but what isn't...
The truth about guest posting

The truth about guest posts

If you have a website, there's a good chance at some point, someone will email you and ask if they can contribute a guest post. If you're like me, you'll...
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Add a blog to your website in 2020

I know it's a little late for a New Year's Resolution, but instead of a resolution, I want you to consider the benefits to your business if you add a...
Why and How to Start a Vlog

Why and how you should start a VLOG in 2020

Video is a really important medium these days. People are consuming content very differently than they did in 2005. They aren't subscribing to your blog posts, they aren't using feed...
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Guest Posting: What you need to know

I get, on an almost daily basis, multiple emails from people asking if they can guest post on my website. It is almost relentless. So I thought I'd take a...
Business Blogging

Top Tips for your Business Blog

Write for your target audience, not for yourself The biggest mistake I see in business blogs is that the author of the blog is often times writing without their target...
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How to find & fix broken links

What is a broken link? A broken link is a link to a page on your website or a blog post that doesn't exist. This happens sometimes when a blog...
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Email Blog Subscriptions – How and Why

Do you have a business blog? I feel strongly that creating new, original content is one of the best ways to drive new traffic to your site, and help you...
Schedule your blog posts

Scheduling WordPress posts to publish at a different time

If you're new to blogging, you may not be aware of this but did you know you can publish blog posts for future dates and times? Just because the button...
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Auto-sharing blog posts to social media

If you are publishing on a blog frequently, and you're also on social media, it's a really, really good idea to share your blog posts on social media. It creates...
Blogging for Business

If blog readership is down, should you still blog?

Yes. People aren't following blogs like they used. In the early days of blogs, we used tools like Sage and Google Reader to add blog RSS feeds and see when...
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Breakdown of a Good Blog Post

If you come to our website much, or subscribe to our newsletter (and if you don't, you can sign up today!), you already know I write a lot of blog...
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Should you delete old or outdated blog posts?

This is the prime question for the day, when I'm looking at my website that currently has 982 published blog posts. (983 after I publish this one.) Should you delete...
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Formatting Your Blog Posts

I write a lot of blog posts, and if you're here, you probably already know that. But did you know that the majority of blog readers are mostly skimming the...
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Meta Descriptions Explained

What is a meta description, why do you need one, and how do you write a good one? All great questions that I'm here to answer for you today. What...
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Ways to create a better reader experience on your blog

Websites with blogs have more visitors and more conversions. This is the truth. But there's more to it than just adding a post and writing some words. You need to...