What do you get when you cross a strategic blogger with a popular blog? You get a larger audience. It’s called guest blogging. Listen to two serious advocates of guest blogging share the secrets of how it works. Both have landed many meaningful gigs on the biggest and best blogs in marketing. Both now operate…
This “SEO blog post checklist” gives you: 21 tips, organized in three lists, to cover: 5 ways to optimize a blog post for SEO 10 tactics to help engage readers and realize greater success with social media 6 elements that will embellish your blog posts and inspire readers to spend more time on your site By applying…
I’ve been sharpening my copywriting skills as a pro for nearly 30 years. How’s it done? Much like any art, or any craft, perpetual improvement calls for: Studying how the best do what they do Practicing Developing your own style and work habits I’m going to share with you many of the lessons…
Are bloggers spending more time writing? Do they write longer or shorter posts? Has publishing frequency changed for the typical blogger? In an effort to identify the business blog trends of 2015, my friends at Orbit Media asked 1074 bloggers 11 questions. They concluded the business of blogging is changing. Some things are consistent from the prior year, but…
When you battle for attention in the noise fest that is the Internet, the most important skill you could possibly possess is headline writing. Your headline is going to be the make-or-break element that determines whether or not your content is read. I want to help make you a better headline writer. I’ve created a cheat…
Two words: how to. Simple. Effective. Foolproof. Timeless. “How to” are the two most important words on the web. Experienced writers know it. Now you do too. Should every headline begin with “how to?” No. That’d be boring as the Celine Dion catalog. Should every business blog include how-to articles? Yes. Some blogs use…
I spent some serious time messing with the headline above. It’s a good one, but I’ve done better. Keep reading and you’ll understand. First, know this: I want a lot of people to read this blog post. Bloggers generally attach great value to the number of viewers a post earns. And a proven strategy for increasing the…
The benefits of guest blogging are immense. It will boost your business. Despite the highly misunderstood announcement from Google’s Matt Cutts in 2014, guest blogging remains an ace tactic of effective content marketers in nearly every niche. The great ones are committed to guest blogging. Ann Smarty, in a guest post on Social Media Examiner (where I…
I want to thank you, big time. Interest in The Point, the blog here at Feldman Creative, skyrocketed in 2014. I learned a lot and I’m hoping you did too. I checked the analytics for the top content I published in 2014 and tallied the top topics and posts for page views. I also looked at the…
The “SEO is dead” parade marches on. Even some search professionals are now writing obits for their old friend. But search continues to thrive. It continues to drive traffic more than, well, anything. So what gives? For any given search, ten web pages are going to command page one rankings and earn waaaaaay more…