Blogging 101: Tags & Titles
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Blogging 101: How To Use Power Words (And Why You Should Use Them!) | Plus Free 1000+ Power Words PDF
Power words are words with a stronger meaning, that trigger an psychological or emotional response. When it comes to your titles, you want to nudge your reader to click and read by using power words. Power words can also be used in your content body and on social media. When you look at the PDF,…
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Blogging 101: The Proper Way to Use Blog Heading Tags
I’ve worked on a few different sites now where I’ve been auditing old posts and realised that the owner has been using their blog headings completely wrong. When I say blog headings I mean headers, or the small titles which break up text on a page. I’ve talked about how headers are the queen’s to…
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Blogging 101: Examples of WordPress Tags
I’ve talked about WordPress tags before both explaining what they are and also how to map them against your categories. But neither of these posts really covered how useful they can be to build up your sites overall map. Tags allow you to further categorise posts in a way that allows you to build separate…
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Blogging 101: The Secret to WordPress Tags
Tags are a staple of many a WordPress blog including the free version, but not many bloggers know how to properly use them. First and foremost, WordPress tags are there to further sort your blog posts into topics after using your categories. Tags should not be a way to keyword stuff and it should not…
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Blogging 101: How to Write Blog Titles That Work
Today’s post, as the title suggests, is going to be all about writing blog titles that get you views. If you’ve clicked through to this post, you were most likely enticed by what the blog title was telling you and that is the first key lesson. Ensure your blog title accurately represents what your content…
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Blogging 101: Organising Blog Categories
As you read through your favourite blogger, you’ve probably noticed that most have broad categories at the top of their site. This is the same for mainstream news outlets as well as for starting out hobby blogs. The reason for this is that categorising content often helps the user experience, as people can find the…