Starting a blog for the first time is an amazing, yet intimidating experience. Thinking that people are actually going to read - and even share - something you wrote. It's unlike any other feeling I can describe.
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Plagiarism is an inconvenient reality that most internet publishers have to deal with. You might be looking to avoid accidentally borrowing someone else’s work or to protect your own, and wondering where you can find the best free plagiarism checker to help you out.
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Today's top content marketing advice is filled with buzz words and "quick and dirty tips", trying to sell you on the sexy side of marketing. But that ignores the one content strategy that always works ... because it's difficult to sell, it's hard work, it's time consuming, and there are no shortcuts.
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The biggest challenge of successful blogging is consistently coming up with engaging blog post ideas that readers will actually enjoy. At the beginning, we simply write down everything we would ordinarily say to curious customers. For a few months it seems easy. But then…
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Following all the steps to get a WordPress post published, shared and promoted can be an unnecessarily complicated process. This post will look at some nice WordPress tricks to reduce the resistance in the publishing process and how to automate as many of the steps as possible.
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A while ago, we published this post. It’s a list of the top 101 blogs about WordPress and their most popular (2) posts. The goal was to give back to the community and point you to some interesting reading / websites you might not have been aware of.
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Warning! This isn’t yet another “you need to set blog goals” -rant. This is more. Way more. First, the facts: blogs that set goals, measure, and stick to good goals, are way more effective than blogs with no goals, or blogs with ineffective goals. This post will tell you all about the specifics of that, explain how to set effective blog goals, and then how to make sure you stick to them.
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They say that blog posts with images get around 94 percent more views than those without them. Yeah, alright, but are those “just numbers”? I mean, is there any particular reason why images work that well on WordPress blogs, or do we just like to look at them … with no further explanation needed?
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Nearly 1.4 million WordPress blog posts are published every single day. And that’s great news(!) … somewhat.
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Using data visualization in WordPress is a great way to enhance your regular text content and better communicate data and concepts with your readers. While “data visualization” sounds fancy, it’s really just a term for graphically presenting information or data to make it easier for readers to understand ideas, trends, or patterns. That last part is the most important – it’s not just dumping data on visitors. Instead, it’s using data to tell a story in a visual manner.
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Want to expand your knowledge? This collection of the top blogs about WordPress and their most popular posts will help you discover the most valuable resources in the WordPress community.
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If you’re like most bloggers, you spend a ton of time on your blog posts. Crafting the perfect headline. Writing that intro that grabs readers just right. And while your posts certainly are important…how much time does that leave to spend on your blog homepage? Or, maybe a better question – do you even have a WordPress blog homepage that’s not just a list of your most recent posts?
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Today we're going to walk you through how to conduct an interview for your blog - from the moment you decide to interview someone, all the way to publishing and marketing your blog interviews.
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Have you been thinking about turning your blog into a book? This guide will show you exactly how to go from WordPress blog to book - all the way from choosing your book's topic, to picking your blog articles, making sure they look great, and finally publishing the whole thing.
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Grammar be tough. Every blogger can relate. And for me - not being a native English speaker - it's even more brutal. I spend way too much time tweaking various parts of my posts just to make sure that they are ... what's the word ... readable. Luckily, we do have some cool tools to use these days that can make grammar less painful. Let's see which is best between Grammarly vs Jetpack vs Ginger vs Hemingway.
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Choosing between the best blogging platforms in the market can be tough for those just getting started with blogging. There is a huge number of options out there, with each providing a set of not-so-different features.
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Figuring out what to blog about / picking a good topic for your blog can be challenging. Most people find it difficult. Here's what to do about it.
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Blogging is for everyone. This message is the reason why WordPress was created in the first place. No matter if you want to blog for personal purposes or for your professional reasons, having a blog can be very effective at helping you achieve your goals. When it comes to blogging, though, to really make it work, you need some quality and preferably free blogging WordPress themes.
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The question of how to monetize a blog is often the very first thing that new bloggers ask. In this guide, we have five methods for you - all of them battle-tested ways to monetize a blog. We go through them one by one and explain how to implement them for maximum impact.
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Fashion is one of the most popular topics among people overall. Maybe only weather beats it. Or gossip. Nevertheless, this is something WordPress designers understand very well, and that's why we have so many interesting WordPress themes tailor-made for fashion blogs and magazines specifically.
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Let's be up-front about one thing when it comes to learning how to promote your blog… You need either time or money to hope for any kind of worthwhile results. Today, we explain what that means and show you how to promote your blog in a way that's ACTUALLY effective = get blog traffic.
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In this guide, we go through the whole process of how to write a good blog post - a post that actually gets results and is exactly what your audience needs. Step by step instructions, all the way from research to writing, editing, and publication.
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