We’re all guilty of it: we let our blogs lapse. We don’t mean to. We think we take pretty good care of them because we update them on a regular basis, respond to all the comments and make sure that there’s no blinding colors that will make our visitors’ eyes bleed. So a year goes…
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Once you have a blog, it’s easy to get too busy for it. A blog can be like a puppy which at first we lavish with attention. With time, we leave it for longer and longer periods. Before we know it, that dog is desperate for just a walk around the block. If you…
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Being a blogger is sacred. Perhaps it’s not sacred in a religious manner, but it is something precious and special that should be treated with respect and dignity. Yet, some people don’t take into consideration how hard you have to work in order to get to where you want to be as a blogger. There’s…
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In the previous post we covered all the ways spelling and grammar have an impact on your blog. Most people who blog and have spelling and grammar issues with their content can’t afford an editor. But there are ways to properly edit your blog content yourself. It takes a little bit of time and effort…
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An impact on what? Your audience? Your traffic? Your message? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Let’s take a look at each category to see how and why. We the People It can be fairly distracting for a reader to have to stumble over a lot of grammatical errors and mistakes in…
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In the last post, we took a look at spinning in depth, and compared spinning and rewriting techniques. Now we’ll answer the question posed in the title: should you spin content for your blog? What Do the Search Engines Say? Search engines, especially Google, frown upon spun content. Take a look at this post published…
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Any copywriter worth their salt will tell you that spinning content is completely unethical. Yet there are numerous spinning jobs posted on the web through sites like Freelancer and Odesk every day. The fact is, spinning content works, but it only works in an extremely limited capacity. What capacity is that? And should you use…
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