This is what I have learned on how to handle criticism on my articles.

The media company claims it was an error and will return the money, but style bloggers are considering legal action

Being both a writer and procrastinator can be a lethal combination — a productivity killer of the highest order.

How I feel when trying something new.

am a content creator before I am anything else. I do video, I do blogs (obviously), I make music, I record podcasts, I write scripts. Content drives me. I apply it to tech and to startups, for the most part, because I love that world. But I’m driven by the content. I have been doing it since I was a kid. I would draw, and write, and make movies. And create comics. And publish little journal entries on a Geocities webpage.

Some words of motivation.

If it works, which method are you using now?

I sat in tears at my computer. Why was I doing this? Was it really necessary? Why had I even started it? Maybe I should abandon the idea. I was so daunted.

A behind-the-scenes look at the For The Interested newsletter.

Useful, well-crafted, fascinating content gets us into the game. But once we're there, we still need to help our audiences find it.

We all need traffic. Targeted traffic to our sites that'll convert. SEO, PPC ads, organic social media posts, blogs, email newsletters, a culture manifesto — you name it, content must be produced. For us, content has been a major cornerstone of our growth and it's something we put a lot of time and energy in to.

I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place.

It’s not the process or the writing — that part’s easy

Link building campaigns shouldn't have a start-and-stop date—they should be ongoing, continuing to earn you links over time. Join our guest host Paddy Moogan as he shares strategies to achieve sustainable link building and milk your content efforts for all they're worth.

I started blogging in 2014 with the intention of using social media to inspire the world. It took me only three blog posts to have my first viral article about how I transformed my life. I’m going to tell you step-by-step how I became a viral blogger and achieved online success.

Contributor Dave Davies pulls key points from a newly awarded Google patent on related entities and points out the ranking benefits of strengthening entity associations in your SEO and link-building efforts.

First, let me explain what I mean with my “most hated blog posts.” My most hated blog posts are the ones that have the lowest fans to views ratio on Medium.com. Medium.com provides their writers with three basic stats: views, reads, and fans. Unfortunately, they don’t provide any option to download these stats as an Excel file. Luckily, you can find some scripts to do that.

And why your readers are an integral part of the writer’s process.

It’s not your writing — it’s you.

I’m new to this platform. But it’s not my first attempt at blogging/writing. It’s not even my only one at the moment. I’ve got another couple of projects on the go, although they’re not really ready for prime time yet. While I can’t claim to be an established, successful blogger, I’ve dabbled enough to know a few things about what not to do. Many successful people will tell you that’s as useful as knowing what to do.

If you actually want people to read your blog, then you will have to “drive” them to it, either in your cybercar, or using a cyberwhip (whatever makes you happy).

When you write an article in a scientific journal, your article is expected to satisfy a number of criteria. Does your article mention all the significant studies published on your topic? Do you add any significant results on top of the existing knowledge on your topic? Do you back up your conclusions with sufficient proof, analysis, and details? If you don’t satisfy any of these criteria, your article will be rejected. You will have to continue working on it until you satisfy the requirements.

To me, life is pretty simple. There’s things you can control and others you can’t. Everything boils down to your actions and your mindset but there’s just far too many of you continuously caught up that just don’t see it that way. This is my attempt to clear things up once and for all.

After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.

Getting your content out there is still hyper important. This is a curated list of 2,190 guest posting opportunities.

Mark Wiens never had a 9-to-5 job after graduating college. Now he has nearly 1.8 million subscribers and has visited dozens of countries.

Fifteen years ago, soldiers started to blog their way through Iraq, leading to questions about how to wage war in the internet age — and a few demotions, too.

And why you shouldn’t be afraid to do the same!

I was left a negative response on a post I recently wrote, it went something like this: “I cannot believe as a writer you didn’t edit this piece before posting it. There’s so many grammar and spelling mistakes I couldn’t help but laugh while reading it. I guess I did learn one thing — not to follow any of your advice. My goodness!” Funny thing is, I couldn’t help but laugh while reading such a response. I’m a writer, not an editor. I gave up on the myth of perfect writing a few months ago and you should too.

There are always times that you spend hours on an article and when you finally release it to the public, you get crickets. No one is reading your work and this can be extremely discouraging when you’ve been working so hard to be a writer.

I am one guy with a web app which makes $14k per year. Is having a blog alongside my website clever marketing or just a waste of my time?

There’s a good reason why 53% of marketers in the USA say that blogging is going to be their top content marketing priority in 2018.

One of the most-read pieces I’ve written here remains my entreaty “Professors Start Your Blogs,” which is now 12 years old but might as well have been written in the Victorian age. It’s quaint. In 2006, many academics viewed blogs through the lens of LiveJournal and other teen-oriented, oversharing diary sites, and it seemed silly to put more serious words into that space. Of course, as I wrote that blog post encouraging blogging for more grown-up reasons, Facebook and Twitter were ramping up, and all of that teen expression would quickly move to social media.

In today’s world, there is no better way to get attention on your art than it is on social media.

Normally in a sport like wrestling you know you need to get better in a certain position, but to use an analogy with writing, I didn’t even know what half the positions were! I didn’t know what I didn’t know. It’s the definition of ignorance.