Looking to build your authority and sales funnel with guest posting? Aaron Orendorff busts three myths that may be standing in your way of becoming a successful guest blogger.

Commenting on blogs is a simple way to get your name into search engines if you're a new writer. Don't be afraid to de-lurk!

I graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in fiction writing. Yeah, that’s a thing. My classes consisted of Intro to Fiction, Journal & Sketchbook, and all sorts of other classes I’m fairly certain my finance-studying peers considered one standard deviation away from The History of Crayons. But I was a slightly different breed than my satchel-carrying, animé-collecting classmates. All throughout college, I asked myself the same question over and over again: “How am I ever going to make a living as a writer?”

Stock photography makes your blog look uninteresting. And it fails to deliver the most important marketing results. Here’s what to do instead.

Anyone with a paid WordPress blog or a blog that uses jetpack.com are eligible to use it

It’s easy to burn out when writing regular content for your blog. Sometimes the ideas won’t flow and other times there are too many ideas to put into words. But don’t worry. The greatest minds in the copywriting world have already found the solutions.

Many people have mentioned to me that they wish they were better at crafting headlines for their stories. I’ve discovered that while I don’t always nail my headline, there are a number of folks who struggle with headlines much more than I do.

Write shorter. Much shorter.

If you’re willing to leave social media confusion behind, you can learn proven social media tactics to increase blog traffic. Here's how.

You can do it too, you just have to put yourself in the right frame of mind

Whether you’re blogging for fun or profit, there are rules you want to abide by. This will make sure your blog has the best chance of getting discovered. In this post, we’ll go over the ten commandments of blogging. Following these rules will give your site a shot at success.

The modern writing world is very much a blessing and a curse. 

The State of the Word is the annual keynote address at WordCamp US, presented by the co-founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. In this year’s address, Matt summarizes the highlights of 2019 — including the 5.1 and 5.2 releases, and looks forward to 5.3. He discusses the controversies from 2018, and talks about all the ways people can get involved with WordPress.

Believe it or not, blogging is all about adding value to other people’s lives, and in this post I am going to explain how powerful this model truly is.

There’s a copycat crisis in content marketing. Explore the search results for virtually any lucrative keyword, and you’ll find a bunch of articles with lookalike titles, headers and examples. Increasingly, “SEO content” has become a synonym for meandering “ultimate guides” and formulaic “7 ways” listicles

You can be a rockstar without it.

Start thinking like an artist

The blogosphere remains a valuable source of information and insight

Some bloggers suffer from what I like to call verbal narcissism. Only it’s in writing. Anyway… To avoid this awful fate, you probably try to keep your posts short, sometimes writing series of blog posts. After all, you don’t want to scare away readers by dumping too much information on them all at once, right? Makes sense, but what’s weird is it doesn’t work that way.

Banging your head against the desk trying to come up with irresistible blog titles? Here's 26 examples with high click-through-rates that will inspire you.