If it works, which method are you using now?

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).

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Here are 30 Lessons I’ve Learned.

April 1 of last year was my last day of my full time job. I decided to take a plunge and do a combination of freelance development and blogging. My hope was that between the two, I could keep myself busy and profitable. Well, I have been able to keep myself busy and not make very much money in the process! LOL. I did better in 2017 than I expected on the freelance side, but my expectations were not very high and it (along with my supportive spouse and some other side income) sustained us. On the blogging side, I really didn’t expect anything and that is what I got, but that has to change soon.

Five keys to creating content readers will read, share, and remember.

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 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.

When I write blog posts, I usually write with a certain intention. A certain agenda that makes me craft the article into a piece as perfect as possible — so that everyone will be impressed and I’ll be loved. As I first start on an article, I usually find that my idea for the piece I want to write isn’t as well thought out as I had in my mind. Ultimately, the article that comes out, in the end, isn’t a reflection of how solid the ideas I had in my head were but in fact a reflection of the ideas I have now discovered as I wrote the article.

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

When I was a little kid, I fell in love with a book and read it so many times that I nearly memorized the first page. Here’s the book’s opening line: "Where’s Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. Do you know what book it’s from? It’s the first sentence of the children’s classic Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White. Now go back and read that opening line again. It really grabs your attention, doesn’t it?

Could it really just be a me too attitude that left all of these brilliant minds feeling like they had to keep up with Squarespace and Medium? That didn’t seem to fit. Especially since Gutenberg is already leagues better than Squarespace’s convoluted visual editor.

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.