DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Blogging Challenge

Blog posts come in all shapes and sizes and range widely in both formatting and word length. Heck, some of them have (almost) no words at all, sharing instead and infographic or a video for example.  For the purpose of today’s post, we’ll compare two different posts that are on opposite ends of the content spectrum – quick posts, or short posts, if you will vs. epic posts.  While there is no set number to define a quick post or an epic post, in my mind, short posts are anything under 500 words. Some may define it by a lower...

I have a quick tip for you today that will come in handy as you’re working on getting ahead on your blogging. It’s using the draft feature. Yes, it’s handy that WordPress and most other blogging platforms have a way to save your posts as drafts so you can continue to work on it over the course of a few days. It’s even better that they usually auto-save for you – at least it is in my case. But there’s another great way to use the draft feature.  You can use drafts to get ahead of the blogging game in...

I’ll let you in on a little secret. The most important part of your blog post is your title. How well you write, how well-researched your content is, or how pretty your images are means nothing if you can’t get readers to click through and start reading your post. And the single most important thing when it comes to getting readers’ attention is your blog post title.  It’s also the most important on-page factor when it comes to SEO. So if you’re hoping for lots of free traffic from Google and all your favourite social media sites, you need to...

There is nothing worse than sitting in front of your laptop, attempting to write a new blog post with nothing but a blank screen staring at you. We all have those days where inspiration just doesn’t strike and we can’t come up with a single workable post idea.  Or maybe you’re in a rush and you need something quick you can write and publish to stick to your blogging schedule and keep your readers happy. You don’t want to spend a bunch of time trying to come up with something to write about.  In either scenario it’s nice to have...

Blogging is a great way to grow your reach and engagement with your target audience. It’s also fun and easy to do and frankly, it can be quite profitable if you do it right. Over the next 30 days I invite you to join me in a blogging challenge. I’ll have a fresh new blog post for you each day that will help you accomplish one of two things:  Give You Plenty of Ideas for New Content to Help You Become a More Consistent Blogger My first goal with this challenge is to give you plenty of ideas for things...