Below are four useful articles for bloggers, or aspiring bloggers. By the way, today is Day 30 of the Blogging Challenge that I am participating in. This is my third time doing the blogging challenge. I am preparing for my trip to Dallas, so I wanted to write a quick, yet meaningful post. I decided to do a curated post for bloggers or would be bloggers. Have you ever done a test on your site to see how mobile responsive it is, and how fast it loads. The results from the Google Test My Site tells me that I have work to do to improve the user experience on my blog. Run the test for your website to get your results. As a blogger, you want to increase your traffic and lessen your bounce rate. If your blog is not mobile responsive, or takes too long to load, readers will leave fast. After you've tested your website on Think with Google, relax and read the four articles for bloggers that I have chosen for you.
Teaching Content Curation and 20 Resources to Help You Do It: How good are you at content curation? Most people are actually not as good as they think. The word curator comes from the museum field. Curators organize art and artifacts in a meaningful way that tells a story. When you curate content, do you organize it in a purposeful way that tells a story. This article by Saga Briggs, walks you through the content curation process, explaining how to do it effectively, and which tools to use. Although it is targeted to people in the field of education, bloggers can benefit from reading the article.
The Specificity Strategy: How to Turn Generic Posts into Stand Out Content: I do not get enough traffic for my blog posts. Sometimes I spend a long time crafting blog posts. This article on Grow and convert caught my attention. The premise is that most blog posts are too generic. Bloggers need to create a niche. Each blog post should answer a specific question. I asked myself, “Are my blog posts too generic?” Based on the information in the article, I would have to say “Yes.” The article has some good action steps for you target your blog posts, so they will help your target audience.
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14+ Tools for Bloggers: Everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. And that the best image that complements your words makes your writing more powerful. In this article, you will learn where to find free images and how to compress them to make your website load faster. Additionally, there are other important tools for bloggers such as running an SEO audit, monitoring keywords, optimizing your blog posts and much more. Good SEO tools and articles for bloggers are very useful.
The Beginner’s Guide to SEO: Successful entrepreneur, John Rampton, has this SEO guide that you can read on his website. If you want your posts to be found by your target audience, you have to optimize them for the keywords you want to rank on. An SEO guide will help you.
I’m sure that you’ll find at least one of the articles for bloggers useful. As someone who reads a lot of books, I recommend Several Short Sentences about Writing
and Hypnotic Writing
to improve your blog post. These are two very good books for bloggers.
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