Twenty reasons why you should never be instantly available. Every hard worker knows the sheer ecstasy of logging onto one’s work email and switching on the “out-of-office” alert system before a big trip. (Honestly, is there any better feeling?) But when you travel as much as I do—as a self-employed writer, I spend practically half my life at 30,000 feet and on foreign soil—you learn a dirty little secret: you should never, ever, ever, turn that alert off. Seriously. I don’t. My out-of-office alert is activated regardless of whether I’m in China or I’m sitting at my desk in my New York apartment. Yes, it’s activated right now, thank you…
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Is Commenting on Blogs a Smart Traffic Strategy?
No… and yes. It depends on how you do it. Some people do it horrendously wrong. Let’s take a look. Curiosity-Click Traffic is Crap If one of your primary traffic strategies is to leave fast comments on the posts of larger blogs in your niche just to get a few clicks from the passing traffic, stop. You could get more traffic from one piece of stellar content than months of that type of comment strategy. And without good content, there’s no reason to attract a few “curiosity clicks” anyway. What’s going to make them stick around after the click if your content sucks? Nothing. Plus, the root motivation for those…
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Blog Post Writing Tips
One of the best ways to improve your site’s SEO and get higher rankings is by maintaining a blog. A good blog will both prove to Google that your site is high-quality, and create content that is more likely to be shared on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It’s also a great way to provide extra information to viewers, stuff that doesn’t quite fit onto the site. Of course, setting up the blog is the easy part. Figuring out what to say can be much trickier. It’s the content that will boost your SEO, so it’s essential that what you’re writing is clear, easy-to-read and above all, useful. You…