Blog commenting started off as a popular link building tactic years ago. You might come across blog sites that still promote this tactic, but this is a very outdated strategy that hasn’t worked for the longest time. “Why doesn’t it work anymore?” Like many other popular link building techniques, blog commenting was quickly abused and […]
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Blog commenting is a strategy that has been widely used over the years. When its popularity exploded, people took advantage of this strategy to build backlinks, which soon got out of control because people started to leave comments for the sole purpose of building links instead of adding value. Google soon caught on to this […]
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Has blog commenting become obsolete? Well, the answer depends on what your objectives with blog comments are. Utilizing blog commenting for link building? Then blog commenting is ineffective. Why? The comments section of blogs has become an avenue for spam. Tons of people leave comments on blogs for the sole purpose of link building. The […]
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First of all, congratulations on the decision to start a blog! Welcome to the club. Now that you have the basics of your website set up, the next step of your blogging journey is to write your first blog post. Euphoric right? But wait – what’s this feeling that keeps creeping up from deep within […]
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People post a lot of things on their blogs. The recommendation for how often one should publish content is two to three 1,800-word blog posts every week. With that amount of content to be published weekly, you might be wondering what types of articles you can post about on your blog. Pillar Posts (Long-Form Content) […]
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A welcome blog post is one of the first articles you’ll publish on your blog. It sets expectations for your visitors as you publish posts regularly. Not only does the welcome blog post help you outline what your blog will and won’t address, it allows you to collect your thoughts so your blog isn’t all […]
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How long should blog posts be? It would seem that longer content produces higher search engine rankings. However, Google doesn’t decide a page’s ranking by looking at its word count. Long-form content (i.e.,content with 2000+ words) provides more opportunities for SEO factors to work in the content’s favor. The longer the content, the more detailed […]
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Medium is a website that sorts blog posts by topics and was created by Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter and Blogger, in August of 2012. Readers who access posts published on Medium’s platform only get access to a few articles before being confronted by a paywall. In 2017, Medium introduced its membership […]
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Medium is an 8-year-old platform created by Evan Williams, who, among a few others, founded Blogger and Twitter. The vision Williams had for Medium was a platform that gives paying subscribers exclusive access to a highly personalized, ad-free experience with several publishing partners and thousands of individual writers. Williams said in an interview with Cheddar […]
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Medium is one of the top blogging platforms out there, and many aspiring bloggers are setting up shop on Medium because it’s free. It would seem like there’s virtually nothing to lose. However, nothing is truly free in this world anymore. There’s always a catch. So what actually happens when you create a blog on […]
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