Blogging

I am getting more and more guest blogging pitches and most of them are depressing (to say at least). It hurts me really because such a great and pure concept as guest blogging is being absolutely ruined by those spam pitches you see daily. But that’s not guest blogging to blame; it’s the people who…

If you guest post as much as I do, you are (1) probably guest blogging too much and (2) already losing track of what, where and when. My guest posts are usually the best of what I can. It’s unfair to this blog readers if I am not sharing my best articles with them. Besides,…

This is not the first time I am doing a post on content re-packaging in different forms and types. Thus, I have already shared why giving your great articles a new life is so effective for content marketing: ? It brings traffic to your old content (and reanimates your old linkbait); ? It lets you…

One thing I have clearly realized while being a full-time guest post editor at SEJ is that most (guest) contributors (no matter how much we love them) are terrible at formatting. It very seldom happens that a guest blogger will browse your blog for a few minutes and copy your obvious formatting preferences to his…

If you write several blog posts weekly for many years, you are very well aware of what “writer’s block” means. It happens very often that you just need a couple of words, a single line of text to get inspired. But where to find those words? To me keyword research and Google search has always…

Your blogging style is up to you. I for one usually shy away from newly hot and trending topics for various reasons: firstly, I am not based in the USA and thus I am slow in learning what everyone says, secondly, seeing great coverage, I usually have hard time finding what to add. And to…