DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG

When you’ve been blogging for a while on a particular topic or in particular niche, it’s not uncommon to feel like you’re running out of ideas. Heck, it can even happen early on in your blogging career when you’ve gotten your first 10 or so posts under your belt. Or maybe you’re sitting there at your computer wondering if what you’re writing is what your readers are looking for.  Once you’re starting to build a following and a readership, even if it’s small one, you can start asking your readers for topic ideas. This works particularly well if you took...

Be honest. How many times does this happen? You’re browsing on the internet, and you come across a blog post you love. You resolve to come back to the blog and read it regularly before moving on. Two hours later and you’ve completely forgotten about this great new blog you discovered. Chances are you’ll never make it back there unless a serendipitous event reunites you with the blog a few months down the road.  Guess what… the exact same thing happens to a lot of your readers. If you don’t believe me, look at your Google Analytics stats and see...

We’ve spent the last two days talking more about “how-to” type information like using images and cross linking posts [LINK to Those Posts here]. (Did you catch how I’m using the cross linking technique in today’s post?). It’s about time we got back to content creation. Today’s quick content idea actually ties in well with cross linking because you’ll be doing a bunch of it. It’s another great way to showcase some of your older blog posts and get them a little extra attention.  I’m sure you’ve seen “Best of” blog posts across the web. But have you ever done...

As your blog starts to grow and you’re adding more and more posts, chances are readers won’t see every single post you write. Why not make it easy for them to find related content by cross linking it where appropriate.  Here’s what I mean. Let’s say you blog about social media marketing and this particular post talks about using images effectively on Facebook. You could link within that post to an older post where you talk about using images on Twitter, or a more specific post where you explained how to fix things when Facebook doesn’t pull up the right...

Your blog is often the first thing new readers, new prospects, and new clients see of you and your online business and first impressions count. That means you need a well-designed and layout blog, great content, and pictures that draw you in and enhance your content. In other words, yes, your posts need images.  It doesn’t stop there. You want to keep encouraging your readers to come back and read more of your posts. Before that can happen, you need to catch their attention and draw them back in. It takes a while to build a loyal following of readers...