As it becomes harder to market a business through blogging, content distribution becomes increasingly important.

No-one likes failing. But everyone does it sooner or later. So here are six powerful steps you can take to overcome failure, and perhaps even learn from it.

Efforts to tackle inappropriate children’s content had unintended effect, pushing creators into legal gray zones.

Ma Ling was one of China’s most popular bloggers. Then she became a target in President Xi Jinping’s campaign to purge popular voices that the Communist Party finds threatening.

It can take real time and effort to get things going but then when they're going, they're going!

Sometimes you’ll have magnificent ideas that are too far off topic, or too personal to share with the big wide world. Or, even worse, they’re perfect for that next project you have planned, and you don’t want to waste them on the project you’re working on now. Write them up anyway, even if they never get posted. You don’t have to post every great idea you have, and you probably shouldn’t. But you can’t hoard your best stuff, either.

Blog images are an important part of your blogging process. This study, conducted together with Orbit Media on more than 300 bloggers and content writers, covers one of the most important channels in content marketing, the blog. We are going to find out - through a series of questions and answers.

Is this really what we want? To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? 99% of people are going to click through them anyway (note: this is a purely fabricated figure based on the common-sense assumption that people will generally click through anything that gets in the way of perming the task they set out to complete in the first place). And honestly, how on earth is your average person going to make an informed decision.

Effective copywriting is the ability to tell a compelling story in a way that evokes strong emotions within your audience and readers.

Webinars are a powerful content format for educating and engaging your audience, and their popularity is bound to increase. Educational content is the second most popular content format and marketing method used by B2B marketers.

Your cursor hovers over the post button. This will be the one. You researched it, you checked it, you got the graphics, and you have the audience. Today you’ll have that successful post: thousands of views and followers. Finally, you’ll be on your way to internet fame. You click the button, and it goes live. Within minutes you get two downvotes, and your precious content is relegated to internet obscurity.

Let’s face it: writing is mostly a solitary business. The picture we have of the writer alone in her room, deep in the writing process, is pretty accurate. Writing takes dedicated hours over a long period of time.

A content strategy focused on cornerstone content can help you rank in SERPs and organize your content. Get the most out of your content with these tips.

Google Plus is about to go dark. Make sure you've removed links to Google Plus from all your social media, or you'll have a lot of dreaded broken links.

Podcasts are all the rage. At home or on-the-go, more and more indie makers are listening to podcasts as a source of information and inspiration.

Email list building strategies from today's top bloggers and entrepreneurs. Includes email service providers reviews, and 20+ tips for beginning bloggers.

Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an option to create public “Collections” to which multiple users can contribute.

Brands are giving lucrative endorsement deals to young children on YouTube and Instagram, raising questions about whether their young followers should be seeing that kind of marketing. Use incognito if read limit reached.

One time I had a “great” idea for a telephone company. Service would be free—all the calls you want! But you’d have to listen to advertisements before each one. I asked my friend what he thought the idea was worth. His answer: “I don’t know. Telephone companies make a lot of money. Maybe $1 billion?” Great! I had a $1 billion idea!

Picture this: You sit down to write, having managed to summon up the last dregs of your energy at the end of a long day … and your housemate pulls up a chair next to you to tell you all about the terrible date they went on the previous night. Or your spouse decides now is the perfect time to talk to you about your holiday plans. Or your teenagers need you to help them finish their homework … right now. Or your kids start bickering – loudly. In those situations, it’s perfectly understandable that you’ll feel frustrated. No-one’s respecting your writing time.

Like it or not, all writers need to become “Web content providers” these days. Yeah, I know. Sounds a lot less creative than “author” doesn’t it? And harder. But it actually isn’t. Writing Web content is a little different from writing a traditional essay or magazine article, but it’s not hard. You just have to learn some basic guidelines.

There are a number of things that go into running a business; some we are comfortable with, and others we aren’t. For me, when I started the Master Fixer, blogging was something I found challenging: I have expert knowledge, I am good at what I do, but where do I begin...

Yesterday morning, I woke up and deleted all my social media. My Instagram, Twitter, and personal Facebook accounts (I deleted my Facebook business page a

Talent is overrated, mental strength is critical.

Hey folks, Twitter users, Facebook users, Tumblr users, Internet users, we’ve got a problem. I wrote a thread yesterday on why I don’t like Twitter thread compilers, and it’s been a bit more popular than I anticipated. I’ll restate some key points of the thread here in this blog, but it’s actually all part of a larger issue that I think we need to talk about.

Better late than never, we've got fourteen predictions for SEO in the coming year—ranging from the monetization of Google to continued domination of SERP features—straight from the experts here at Moz.

Ever wish there was a shortcut to tap into your readers' emotions? An easy way to make them feel exactly what you want? Well there is. Power words.

Five and a half years ago, my writing career finally seemed on the verge of taking off. I’d just published my first novel, I’d finished writing Publishing E-Books For Dummies, which was to be published by Wiley, and I’d launched an online membership site for writers. Then I got pregnant.

The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse.

A recent survey by Orbit Media found that bloggers who invest more time in writing their blogs — and also write longer articles– generally have a higher number of readers and interactions. The best SEO results are booked with blogs that are approximately 2,000 words long. However, how do you keep a long read interesting? How do you make sure that your readers don’t just scroll through, or tap out when they are halfway through your article?

How many great TV shows have you discovered in season 3 or later? I started watching Game of Thrones after they had released 5 seasons. Pat Flynn had released at least 100 episodes of his podcast before I even knew he existed. I discovered Hard Core History years after Dan Carlin started producing it. This is such a common experience. There is so much content being produced that we can’t possibly discover it all. So instead we wait for the best content to float to the surface after time. If step one in building an audience is to create great content, step two is to endure long enough to get noticed.

Here’s a “life-hack” — when someone tells you that your biggest fuck up was probably for the best, don’t believe them. Don’t believe a word of it. No matter what they say, it’s not true — unless they’re actually a part of your project or company or they have a personal reason to want you to win. The fact is, most people are going to want you to fail.

A detailed look at how Medium works, and some of the recent changes we’ve made.

How a funny way of paying the bills evolved from a passion.

We’re human and most of the time we can’t be assed doing the work.