Blogging Articles

Here are 9 steps to prepare an article for your website before hitting publish. With these steps, you can ensure your article ranks well on the search engines.

Just like most things online, adding article images is fairly easy, but it’s also easy to make a mistake. Here are some of the most common image-related mistakes and how to avoid them.

Savvy bloggers know to take every opportunity to increase their appeal to search engines. Why should you care? Because every time your blog or blog post comes up in the search engine results, you have the opportunity to drive additional traffic to your website.

Images – photos, illustrations, or other graphics -- are often the first thing visitors look at. If the image is compelling, visitors stay to check out the text. If the image is poor quality or unappealing – or non-existent! – visitors leave. It’s really that simple.

Got a blog deadline looming? You promised your readers you’d have something new by tomorrow, or maybe it’s today. Not sure what to write about? How about writing about your take on a news item?

Posting three articles each week isn't as difficult or time consuming as you might think; for one of my affiliate marketing websites, I spend about an hour each week creating and scheduling those three articles to post throughout the following week.

Darren Rowse, co-author of ProBlogger, has announced last week via email, Twitter and Facebook that they have released an updated version of their popular book. Beginning today, May 3rd, it's available at Amazon.com. In his Facebook announcement, he stated: